Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Avinash Kumar Agarwal is an Indian mechanical engineer, tribologist and a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Avinash Kumar Agarwal is an Indian mechanical engineer, tribologist and a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his studies on internal combusti.....

Shailesh Nayak

Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies Shailesh Nayak is an Indian scientist and is currently Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and Distinguished Scientist in the Ministry of Earth Sciences. Shailesh Nayak is an Indian scientist and is currently Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and Distinguished Scientist in the Ministry of Earth Science.....

William Murdoch

William Murdoch was a Scottish engineer and inventor. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England. William Murdock, a Scottish inventor, the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. William Mu.....

N.r. Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Infosys, and has been the chairman, chief executive officer, president, and chief mentor of the company before retiring and taking the title chairman emeritus. Murthy was born and raised in Shidlaghatta, Karnataka. Mr. Murthy founded Infosys in 1981. Infosys is, today, a highly innovative software services .....

Ray Wijewardene

Dr. Philip Revatha "Ray" Wijewardene, better known as Ray Wijewardene, was a Sri Lankan engineer, aviator, inventor, and Olympic athlete. He was an expert on tropical agriculture and natural resource management, subjects that he created a logical system to study. Wijewardene was born in Colombo, Ceylon. He studied at CMS Ladies’ College, Colombo and St Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia, both priv.....

Pierre-Émile Martin

Pierre-Émile Martin was a French industrial engineer. He applied the principle of recovery of the hot gas in an open hearth furnace, a process invented by Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After finishing mining school, Pierre Martin began to work at metallurgical plant of his father Emile Martin in Fourchambault (France), and from 1854 to 1883, he was director of foundry in Sireuil. Pierre-Émile Martin, a.....

Baji Rao I

Baji Rao I, born as Visaji, also known as Bajirao Ballal, was the 7th Peshwa of the Maratha empire. He is widely considered as the greatest Indian cavalry general. His relationship with his Muslim wife, a subject of controversy, has been adapted in Indian novels and cinema. Baji Rao is the most celebrated personality after Shivaji in the history of the Maratha Empire. His achievements are establis.....

Leslie Groves

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. Leslie Richard Groves, an American army officer in charge of the Manhattan Project—which oversaw all aspects of scientific research, prod.....

Y. Venugopal Reddy

Yaga Venugopal Reddy is an Indian economist and a retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1964 batch belonging to Andhra Pradesh cadre. Reddy served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 6 September 2003 until 5 September 2008. He was a member of The Palais Royal Initiative on the Reform of the International Monetary System. He was also on the Advisory Board of Institute for .....

Pierre Méchain

Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets. Pierre Mechain, a French astronomer and hydrographer who, with Jean Delambre, measured the meridian arc from Dunkirk, Fr., to Barcelona. The measurement was made between 1792 and 1798 to establish a basis for the unit of lengt.....

Leon Theremin

Leon Theremin was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. Leon Theremin invented one of the world’s first and most unique electronic musical intruments: the aetherphone, better known as Thermin. He was a youthful enthusiast of bo.....

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers like Bande Mataram. Sri Aurobindo,, yogi, seer, philosopher, poet, and Indian nationalist who propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution. Aurobindo Ghose was born in Calcutta, India in a Bengali Kayasth family that was associated wi.....

Adam Clark

Adam Clark was a Scottish civil engineer who is best known for his career in Hungary. His most famous work is the Széchenyi Chain Bridge over the Danube River in Budapest, which was one of the longest bridges in the world when it opened. Adam Clark, a British civil engineer who is associated with the construction of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge between Buda and Pest (two districts of present-day .....

T. V. Ramakrishnan

Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his contributions in condensed matter physics. He is at present DAE Homi Bhabha Professor of Physics at Benaras Hindu University and also the chancellor of Tripura University. Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan was born on 14 August 1941 in Madras, Tamil Nadu. He completed his B.Sc (Hons.) and M.Sc.....

John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated his working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube. John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer, the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion and k.....

Sridevi

Sridevi was an Indian actress and film producer, who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films. Sridevi (born Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan; 13 August 1963 – 24 February 2018) was an Indian actress and film producer, who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films.[12][13] Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actresses in .....

Vincent Hugo Bendix

Vincent Hugo Bendix was an American inventor and industrialist. Vincent Bendix was a pioneer and leader in both the automotive and aviation industries during the 1920s and 1930s. Vincent Bendix, an American inventor and industrialist who contributed to the development of automobiles and aircraft. He was the eldest of three children , the parents were immigrants from Moline, Sweden. While in Moli.....

Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped develop nuclear power in India. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1972. He is internationally regarded as the Father of the Indian Space Program. on of Ambalal Sarabhai, he came from the famous Sarabhai family of India who were major industrialists committed t.....

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary Wozniak, also known by his nickname "Woz", is an American electronics engineer, computer programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. A computer wizard, Steve Wozniak is the man who through his invention of Apple I and Apple II computers magnified the microcomputer revolution in the world. Born in a booming technological centre, since young, Steve Wozniak showed traits of.....

Duvvuri Subbarao

Duvvuri Subbarao, is an Indian economist, Central Banker, and retired IAS officer. He was the 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India, served under Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh. He lives in Singapore and is a distinguished visiting faculty at National University of Singapore. Dr Duvvuri Subbarao is an Indian Economist and Central Banker. He was the Governor of Reserve Bank of India 2008-13 and.....

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