Vinod Dham

Born: 1950 (age 71 years), Pune Vinod Dham is an engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is known as 'Father of the Pentium Chip' for his contribution to the development of Intel's Pentium micro-processor He is a mentor Vinod Dham is popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor. Born in 1950 in Pune, he had his initial schooling in Pune. . .His father was a member of the army .....

Jack Kilby

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Jack Kilby can be rightly acknowledged as the face of modern computing, for had it not been for his invention of the integrated circuit and microchip, the computer indust.....

Bhagwan Lal Indraji

Bhagwan Lal Indraji or Bhagwanlal Indraji was an Indian archaeologist and scholar. A member of the Royal Asiatic Society's Bombay branch, he made transcripts of several ancient Indian inscriptions, including the Hathigumpha inscription. Bhagwan Lal Indraji or Bhagwanlal Indraji was an Indian archaeologist and scholar. A member of the Royal Asiatic Society's Bombay branch, he made transcripts of se.....

Lala Kamlapat Singhania

Lala Kamlapat Singhania was an Indian industrialist, who founded the J. K. Organisation, one of India's largest conglomerate company. He was born to a Marwari Bania family in Kanpur, then part of the North-Western Provinces in British Raj. .....

C. V. Raman

Full name: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. C.V Raman, an Indian physicist whose work was influen.....

Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. As of July 2021, Yang has a net worth of over $2 billion. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder, and the former CEO of ‘Yahoo! Inc.’ Yang was born with the name Yang Chi.....

Aruna Miller

Aruna Miller is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the state of Maryland. Miller is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Legislative District 15 in Montgomery County. Aruna Miller Katragadda is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the state of Maryland. Miller is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates rep.....

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian, engineer and explorer, and amateur archaeologist, often regarded as one of the first Egyptologists. His discoveries include the tomb of Seti I, the temple at Karnak, and the pyramid of Khafre, making a fundam.....

Chittaranjan Das

Nickname: Deshbandhu Spouse: Basanti Devi (m. 1896–1925) Party: Swaraj Party Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu, was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal during the period of British colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das. Chitta Ranjan Das was an Indian.....

Jamnalal Bajaj

Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj was an Indian industrialist. He founded the Bajaj Group of companies in the 1920s, and the group now has 24 companies, including six that are listed on the bourses. He was also a close and beloved associate of Mahatma Gandhi, who is known to have often declared that Jamnalal was his fifth son. An honest industrialist could perhaps be a myth in India given how frequently sca.....

Charles K. Kao

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Grand Bauhinia Medal, MORE Sir Charles Kuen Kao GBM KBE FRS FREng was a Chinese-born British-American electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. Charles Kao, in full Charles Kuen Kao, Pinyin Gao Kun, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2009 for his discovery of how light can .....

Daniel Rutherford

Discovered: Nitrogen Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh to Dr John Rutherford. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under William Cullen and Joseph Black. Rutherford obtained his MD in 1772. His dissertation, titled “De aere fixo dicto aut m.....

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Amartya Sen, an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members. Sen was best known for his work .....

Amar Bose

Amar Gopal Bose was an Bengali-American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. The brilliant mind behind the founding of the Bose Corporation, a name which spells supreme quality in the fields of acoustics and sound systems, Am.....

Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011. Cook previously served as the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and serves on its board of directors. Before being named CEO in August 2011, Tim was Apple’s chief operating officer and was responsible for all of th.....

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress and the winner of the Miss World 1994 pageant. Primarily known for her work in Hindi and few Tamil films, she has established herself as one of the most popular and influential celebrities in India through her successful acting career. Rai has received numerous accolades, including two Filmfare Awards, and was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Governme.....

G. Madhavan Nair

G. Madhavan Nair is an Indian space scientist and a former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India. He has also been the Chairman of the Space Commission and Chairman of the Governing Body of the Antrix Corporation, Bangalore. Born in Neyyattinkara, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in 1943, Shri. G. Madhavan Nair graduated in Eng.....

Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, endeared as Sardar, was an Indian statesman. He served as the first Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. Vallabhbhai Patel, in full Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress during the struggle for Indian independence. During the first three years of Indian independence after 1947.....

Galileo Ferraris

Galileo Ferraris was an Italian university professor, physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and an inventor of the three-phase induction motor although he never patented his work. Galileo Ferraris, (born Oct. 31, 1847, Livorno Vercellese, Kingdom of Sardinia Italian physicist who established the basic principle of the induction motor, which is now the principal.....

Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Homi Bhabha, in full Homi Jehangir Bhabha, an Indian physicist who was the principal architect of that country’s nuclear energy program. Born into a rich aristocratic family, Bhabha went to the University of Cambridge, England, in 1927, originally to s.....