Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle is an Indian playback singer and entrepreneur. She is best known for her playback singing in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over seven decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand movies. Asha Bhosle (née Mangeshkar; is an Indian playback singer and entrepreneur. She is best known for her playback singi.....

Canvass White

Canvass White was an American engineer and inventor. He was chief engineer at the Delaware and Raritan Canal and he patented Rosendale cement, which became the dominant cement in the United States until 1900. Canvas White was chief engineer at the Delaware and Raritan Canal and he patented Rosendale cement, which became the dominant cement in the United States until 1900. White was born in Whit.....

P. Bhanumathi

P. Bhanumathi Ramakrishna was an Indian actress, director, music director, singer, producer, novelist and lyricist. Widely known as the first female super star of Telugu cinema, Bhanumathi appeared in over 100 films predominantly in Telugu and Tamil languages. Bhanumathi was born on 7 September 1925 in Doddavaram village of Prakasam district, near Ongole, Andhra Pradesh. She is the third child to .....

Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Chinese children recite a Tang dynasty poem that credits the farmer’s sweat and toil for the rice on their plates. They should a.....

Wilson Greatbatch

Wilson Greatbatch was an American engineer and pioneering inventor. He held more than 325 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Greatbatch was born in Buffalo, New York and attended public grade school at West Seneca High School.[2][3] He entered military service and served d.....

Sarat Chandra Bose

Sarat Chandra Bose was an Indian barrister and independence activist. Sarat Chandra Bose was born in Cuttack, Odisha. He got his MA from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1909 and became a legal practitioner in 1911. He was enrolled in the Honourable Society of Lincoln Inn’s Society and practiced as a Barrister in England from 1912-1914. He was born to Janakinath Bose (father) and Prabhabati Devi i.....

Robert H. Dennard

Robert Dennard is an American electrical engineer and inventor. Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. Robert H. Dennard, in full Robert Heath Dennard, an American engineer credited with the invention of the one-transistor cell for dynamic random-access me.....

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian academic, professor, philosopher, and politician who served as the first Vice President of India and the second President of India. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, scholar and statesman who was president of India from 1962 to 1967. He served as professor of philosophy at Mysore (1918–21) and Calcutta (1921–31; 1937–41) universities and as vice chancellor of .....

John McCarthy

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. John McCarthy,an American mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence ; his main research in the field involved the formalization of common-sense knowledge. John McCarthy was bornin Boston, Mass.....

Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India" was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament Dadabhai Naoroji was born in Bombay in a priestly Parsi family. As a consequence of his outstanding performance at the Elphinstone College, Naoroji obtained the Clare Scholarship.Soon after graduat.....

Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. As an architect, critic and mentor, Louis H. Sullivan had an impact on architecture that.....

Sadhguru

Jagadish Vasudev, venerated as Sadhguru, is an Indian yoga guru and author. Jaggi Vasudev earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Mysore and has been teaching yoga in southern India since 1982. Jagadish Vasudev, a venerated as Sadhguru, is an Indian yoga guru and author. Jaggi Vasudev earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Mysore and has been teaching y.....

Andrew Grove

Andrew Stephen Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman, engineer, and CEO of Intel Corporation. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States, where he finished his education. Andrew S. Grove, original name András István Gróf, a Hungarian-born American businessman who was credited with being the driving force behind the enormous success of semic.....

Swaroopanand Saraswati

Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati is the current Shankaracharya of Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Dwaraka, Gujarat and the Jyotir Math in Badrinath. Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati is the current Shankaracharya of Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Dwaraka, Gujarat and the Jyotir Math in Badrinath. .....

Vagit Alekperov

Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov is an Azerbaijani and Russian businessman, the president of the leading Russian oil company LUKOIL. Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov (Azerbaijani: Vahid Yusuf oğlu Ələkbərov, Russian: Вагит Юсуфович Алекперов; is an Azerbaijani and Russian businessman, the president of the leading Russian oil company LUKOIL As of 16 April 2021, according to Bloomberg.....

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami or Srila Prabhupada, born Abhay Charan De, was an Indian spiritual teacher and the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the "Hare Krishna movement". His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvat.....

Robert Hanbury Brown

Robert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. Robert Hanbury Brown,was a British astronomer and writer noted for his design, development, and use of the intensity interferometer. Brown graduated from the University of Londo.....

Bernard Lovell

Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell Kt OBE FRS was a British physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980. Lovell was the son of Gilbert and Emily Laura Lovell. Lovell studied physics at the University of Bristol obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in 1934,and a PhD in 1936 for his work on the electrical conductivity of thin films. At t.....

Swami Kuvalayananda

Swami Kuvalayananda was a yoga guru, researcher, and educator primarily known for his pioneering research into the scientific foundations of yoga. He started research on yoga in 1920, and published the first journal specifically devoted to studying yoga, Yoga Mimamsa, in 1924. Kuvalayananda, Swami was a Famous Indian pioneer of the scientific study of hatha yoga. He was born Jagannath Ganesh Gune.....

David Bushnell

David Bushnell, of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, one of the first American combat engineers, a teacher, and a medical doctor. Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Read More

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