Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the chairperson and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. The daughter of a brewmaster for India-based United Breweries, Mazumdar-Shaw originally planned to follow in her father’s footsteps. She earned an under.....

Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu

G. D. Naidu was an Indian inventor and engineer who is referred to as the "Edison of India" and "the wealth creator of Coimbatore". He is credited with the manufacture of the first electric motor in India. His contributions were primarily industrial but also spanned the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural and automobile engineering. Naidu developed an independently internal combustion.....

Robert Andrews Millikan

American physicist who was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics for “his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect.” Millikan's famous oil-drop experiment was far superior to previous determinations of the charge of an electron, and further showed that the electron was a fundamental, discrete particle. When its value was substituted in Niels Bohr's theor.....

Ulugh Beg Mirz

Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh, better known as Ulugh Beg, was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician. Ulugh Beg was notable for his work in astronomy-related mathematics, such as trigonometry and spherical geometry, as well as his general interests in the arts and intellectual activities. Mongol astronomer and mathematician who, although the only important Mongol .....

Patcha Ramachandra Rao

Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University who was also a student and faculty at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. Rao was born to S. R. Narayanaswamy Naidu and Laxmi Bai , in the Krishna District of Andhra P.....

Joseph Fourier

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. Through his The Analytical Theory of Heat, he introduced an infinite mathematical series to aid in solving .....

Govindarajan Padmanaban

Govindarajan Padmanaban is an Indian biochemist and biotechnologist. He was the former director of the Indian Institute of Science, and presently serves as honorary professor in the department of biochemistry at IISc Padmanaban was brought up in a family of engineers in Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu but had settled in Bangalore. After completing his schooling in Bangalore, he joined the Presidenc.....

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American engineer and inventor who is known as the father of scientific management. His system of industrial management has influenced and provided benefits in modern industry world-wide. He introduced “time and motion study” Taylor was the son of a lawyer. He entered Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1872, where he led his class scholastically. After.....

Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis is an American actor and film producer. Born in Germany to a German mother and American father, Willis moved to the U.S. with his family when he was two years old. His career began on the off-Broadway stage in the 1970s. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting and has since appeared in over 70 films, gaining widespread recognition as an ac.....

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca was an Italian-American aviation pioneer, airplane designer and builder, who is credited with many design firsts and whose aircraft broke many aviation records. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973. Bellanca graduated with an engineering degree from the Milan Polytechnic and in 1911 came to the United States. In 1917 he designed and built the firs.....

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German engineer who invented the internal-combustion engine that bears his name. After studying the four-stroke internal combustion engines developed by Nikolaus Otto, Diesel conceived of an engine that would approach the thermodynamic limit established by Sadi Carnot in 1824. If the fuel in a cylinder could be expanded at constant pressure, it could get closer t.....

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Arundhati Bhattacharya is a retired Indian banker and former Chairperson of the State Bank of India.She is the first woman to be the Chairperson of State Bank of India . In 2016, she was listed as the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She is the only Indian corporate leader listed on Fortune's world's greatest leaders list ranked at 26. Bhattacharya was born in a Bengali family in t.....

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler was a German engineer and pioneer automobile manufacturer. He invented the first high-speed internal combustion engine, operating at up to 900 rpm and a carburetor to mix petrol fuel and air. The motorbike he built in 1885 was perhaps the world's first. It was the world's first when, with Wilhelm Maybach, he constructed a four-wheeled automobile in 1886 capable of a speed of 1.....

Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut, engineer, and the first woman of Indian descent to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the spacecraft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Kalpa.....

Andrew Smith Hallidie

Andrew Smith Hallidie was the promoter of the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, USA. This was the world's first practical cable car system, and Hallidie is often therefore regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system. He also introduced the manufacture of wire rope to California, and at an early age was a prolific builder of bri.....

Uday Kotak

Uday Kotak is an Indian billionaire banker, and the executive vice chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank. In early 1980s, while India was still a closed economy and economic growth was muted, Kotak decided to start out on his own, refusing a lucrative job option from a multinational. Forbes estimated his wealth to be $16 billion in 2020 Kotak was raised in an upper middle class Gu.....

S.N.Seshadri

Sekharipuram Narayaniyer Seshadri was an Indian control engineer and the head of the Reactor Control Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. He established the control systems for the Satellite Receiving Station at Arvi, near Pune and the Ooty Radio Telescope Sekharipuram Narayaniyer Seshadri was an Indian control engineer and the head of the Reactor Control Division of the Bhabha Atomic Re.....

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known widely for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize .....

Clifford Milburn Holland

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Dr. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao

Dr. Burgula Ramakrishna Rao was the first elected Chief Minister of the erstwhile Hyderabad State. Prior to the independence of India and the political integration of the princely states into the Union, he was among the Telugu-speaking leaders to resist the Nizam in the princely state of Hyderabad He was educated at the Dharmavanth and Excelsior High School in Hyderabad, where he would receive a B.....

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