Christian Friedrich Schönbein

Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone Friedrich Schönbein was a chemist best known for the discovery of ozone and the invention of guncotton. He attended primary school until age 13, when he was apprenticed to a chemical and pharmaceutical fac.....

K. P. S. Menon

Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankara Menon Sr. CIE ICS, usually known as K. P. S. Menon, was a diplomat and diarist, a career member of the Indian Civil Service. He was appointed independent India's first Foreign Secretary, serving from 1948 to 1952. Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankara Menon Sr. CIE ICS, usually known as K. P. S. Menon, was a diplomat and diarist, a career member of the Indian Civil Service. H.....

Milkha Singh

Milkha Singh, also known as The Flying Sikh, was an Indian track and field sprinter who was introduced to the sport while serving in the Indian Army. He is the only athlete to win gold at 400 metres at the Asian Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. He also won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games. Milkha Singh, byname the Flying Sikh, an Indian track-and-field athlete who became the f.....

Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble is an Indian cricket coach, captain, former cricketer and commentator who played Test and One Day International cricket for the national team for 18 years. Anil Kumble represented the terms hard trier, match-winner, and a fighter in Indian cricket. Being India's most effective bowler in both Tests and ODIs, Kumble spearheaded the Indian bowling attack for more than a decade. Most remem.....

Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson FRS HFRSE FRSA DCL was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. Robert Stephenson built on the considerable achievements of his father, George. His forward thinking enabled the significant expansi.....

Hema Malini

Hema Malini is an Indian actress, dancer, writer, director, producer, and politician. She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Malini made her acting debut in 1963 with the Tamil film Idhu Sathiyam. Hema Malini (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, dancer, writer, director, producer, and politician.[3] She is primarily known for her work in Hindi films. Malini made her acting d.....

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in full Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, an Indian scientist and politician who played a leading role in the development of India’s missile and nucl.....

W. Edwards Deming

William Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. William Edwards Deming (1900-1993) is widely acknowledged as the leading management thinker in the field of quality. He was a statistician and business consultant whose methods helped hasten Japan’s recovery after the Second World War and beyond. He derived the first philosophy .....

Har Dayal

Lala Har Dayal Singh Mathur was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. Lala Har Dayal, Har Dayal also spelled Hardayal or Hardyal, Indian revolutionary and scholar who was dedicated to the removal of British influence in India. Har Dayal graduated from the Government College, Lahore (University of the Punj.....

Hubert Shirley-Smith

Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, CBE, BSc, MICE was a British civil engineer. Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for helping to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943. Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith, a British civil engineer who designed steel bridges in many parts of the world and was a noted writer on engineering topics. Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for.....

Ashok Kumar

Kumudlal Ganguly, better known by his stage name Ashok Kumar and also fondly called Dadamuni, was an Indian film actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema and who was a member of the cinematic Ganguly family. Kumudlal Ganguly, popularly known by his screen name 'Ashok Kumar' was a legendary film actor and producer who had very finally played all lead, supportive and negative characters. H.....

Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, 2 years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He was known as the "father of modern navigation technology." Elmer Ambrose Sperry, a versatile American inventor and industrialist, best known for his gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers. As .....

M. A. Chidambaram

Muthiah Annamalai Chidambaram was an Indian industrialist and cricket administrator. He was the youngest son of Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, Raja of Chettinad. Chidambaram was the younger brother of M. A. Muthiah Chettiar and M. A. Ramanathan Chettiar. He started off with a scooter factory in Mumbai, Automobile Products of India in 1946 and later became the Director of the Indian Aluminium Compa.....

Dana Scott

Dana Stewart Scott is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. Dana Scott, in full Dana Stewart Scott, an American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist who was cowinner of the 1976 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour .....

Jayaprakash Narayan

Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak, was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. Jayaprakash Narayan, also spelled Jai Prakash Narain, also called Jaya Prakash Narayan, Indian political leader and theorist. Narayan was educated at universities in the United States, where he became a Marxist. Upon his return to India in 1929, he joined .....

Benjamin Wright

Benjamin Wright was an American civil engineer who was chief engineer of the Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. In 1969, the American Society of Civil Engineers declared him the "Father of American Civil Engineering". Benjamin Wright, an American engineer who directed the construction of the Erie Canal. Because he trained so many engineers on that project, Wright has been called the �.....

S. S. Rajamouli

Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli, professionally known as S. S. Rajamouli, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who primarily works in Telugu cinema. Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli professionally known as S. S. Rajamouli, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who primarily works in Telugu cinema.[4] He is best known for directing fantasy action films, such as Magadheera (2009) featured a.....

William F. Baker

William Frazier Baker, also known as Bill Baker, is an American structural engineer known for engineering the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building/man-made structure. He is currently a structural engineering partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Missouri (1975), Baker held a brief tenu.....

Keshub Mahindra

Keshub Mahindra is an Indian businessman, and the chairman emeritus of the Mahindra Group. He retired as chairman in August 2012 after heading the Group for nearly five decades, handing over the position to his nephew, Anand Mahindra. Mahindra is known for his philanthropy Keshub Mahindra is an Indian businessman, and the chairman emeritus of the Mahindra Group. He retired as chairman in August 20.....

John Skilling

John Skilling graduated from the University of Washington in 1947 with a B.S. in civil engineering John started working for the W.H.Witt Co. soon after graduation. In 1983, he became the chairman of the firm. Prominent constructions under his leadership include the World Trade Center, Rainier Bank Tower, the Seafirst Building, Seafirst Fifth Avenue Tower, Century Square, Columbia Seafirst Center a.....

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