Dharam Ablashi

Dharam V. Ablashi is an American biomedical researcher born in Lahore. He is best known for his co-discovery of Human herpesvirus 6, an immunosuppressive and neurotropic virus that can cause encephalitis and seizures during a primary infection or when reactivated from latency in immunosuppressed patients. A renowned virologist and humanitarian who has influenced the lives of thousands .....

Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research. [0:37 pm, 07/10/2021] +91 95351 00349: Niels Bohr was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and humanitarian whose revolutionary theories on ato.....

G. Ramachandran

G. Ramachandhran was a soldier for the Gandhian cause, social reformer and a teacher. With his wife, Dr. T. S. Soundram, daughter of T V Sundaram Iyengar, founder of TVS Group, he started the Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu in 1945. He authored several books. Viswabharati, Rabindranath Tagore's University, in Santhiniketan awarded him the higher title "DESIKOTTAMA" ('The Best teacher'). After severing va.....

George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse Jr. was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19. George Westinghouse,an American inventor and industrialist who was chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States. After .....

Meghnad Saha

Meghnad Saha FRS was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. His work allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures. He was elected to the Parliament of India in 1952. Biography of MEGHNAD SAHA (1893 – 1956 ) https://www.robolab.in/biography-of-meghnad-s.....

Robert H. Goddard

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established on May 1, 1959. By 1926, Goddard had constructed and successfully tested the first rocket using liquid fuel. Inde.....

Mangalore Anantha Pai

Mangalore Anantha Pai is an Indian electrical engineer, academic and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. A former professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he is known for his contributions in the fields of power stability, power grids, large scale power system analysis, system security and optimal control of nuclear re.....

Garrett Camp

Garrett Camp is a Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded StumbleUpon, a web-discovery platform, and Uber, an on-demand car service available via a mobile application. A true innovator at heart, he plans to help found more companies in future and has created Expa as a new platform for future companies. Born to enterprising parents who quit their respective jobs to embark on a new career as design/bui.....

Vijaypat Singhania

Vijaypat Singhania was the chairman emeritus of the Raymond Group of clothing and textiles and a former Sheriff of Mumbai, from 19 December 2005 to 18 December 2006. A keen aviator, Singhania holds the world record for highest altitude gained travelling in a hot air balloon, notably carried out at the age of 67. Singhania also holds a world record for his solo microlight flight from UK to India i.....

George Brayton

George Bailey Brayton was an American mechanical engineer and inventor. He was noted for introducing the constant pressure engine that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. American inventor George Brayton (1772-1837) is recognized as the most important of the early American inventors of vehicles utilizing internal combustion. The extent of his accom.....

Dipak Misra

Justice Dipak Misra is an Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 28 August 2017 till 2 October 2018. He is also a former Chief Justice of the Patna and Delhi High Courts. He is the nephew of Justice Ranganath Misra, who was the 21st Chief Justice from 1990 to 1991. Misra enrolled at the Bar on 14 February 1977 and practised at the Orissa High Court and the Service Tribu.....

Karl von Terzaghi

Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering". Karl Terzaghi, in full Karl Anton von Terzaghi, a civil engineer who founded the branch of civil engineering science known as soil mechanics, the study of the properties of soil under stresses and under the action of flowing water. He wa.....

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. .....

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian statesman who served as the second Prime Minister of India. He promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk – by supporting the Amul milk co-operative of Anand, Gujarat and creating the National Dairy Development Board. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on October 2, 1904 at Mughalsarai, a small railway town.....

Zhu Rongji

Zhu Rongji, a Chinese politician who was a leading economic reformer in the Chinese Communist Party . He was premier of China from 1998 to 2003. Zhu joined the CCP in 1949. Following his graduation from Tsinghua University in Beijing with a degree in electrical engineering, he began work as a deputy division chief with the state planning commission. Though twice exiled to rural northwestern China.....

Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current president of India since his inauguration in 2017. He is also the first person from Uttar Pradesh to serve as President of India. He was the second person from the Dalit caste, after Kocheril Raman Narayanan, and the first member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to hold the office. Kovind grew up in humble circumstances in.....

S. Rm. M. Annamalai Chettiar

Raja Sir Satappa Ramanatha Muttaiya Annamalai Chettiar KCSI known simply as Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, was an Indian industrialist, banker, educationist and philanthropist, who is largely remembered for his social work and endowments in Tamil Nadu. He is the founder of Annamalai University in Chidambaram. Born to S. Rm. Muthiah Chettiar of a wealthy and famous Nagarathar family, Annamalai Chettiar.....

Nora Stanton Barney

Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, née Nora Stanton Blatch, an American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family’s tradition of women leaders. Nora Stanton Blatch was the daughter of Harriot Stanton Blatch and the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, both of whom were leaders of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Aft.....

Walther Rathenau

Walther Rathenau, a German-Jewish statesman, industrialist, and philosopher who organized Germany’s economy on a war footing during World War I and, after the war, as minister of reconstruction and foreign minister, was instrumental in beginning reparations payments under the Treaty of Versailles obligations and in breaking Germany’s diplomatic isolation. Rathenau was the son of Emil Rathenau,.....

Brajesh Mishra

India's first National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra, was a pivotal figure in shaping foreign policy during NDA government and a troubleshooter of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A career diplomat, he had served as India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as Ambassador to Indonesia. He retired as Secretary in the External Affairs Ministry. He had played a key role in India.....

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