R. E. B. Crompton

Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, CB, FRS was a British electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor. He was a pioneer of electric lighting and public electricity supply systems. The company he formed, Crompton & Co., was one of the world's first large-scale manufacturers of electrical equipment. Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, was a British inventor and pioneer in electrical development. Evelyn Cromp.....

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian politician and entrepreneur, and a Member of Parliament in the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as of 2018 and also the National Spokesperson of BJP and was vice-chairman of the Kerala wing of the BJP-led coalition National Democratic Alliance.[2] He represents the state of Karnataka. Rajeev was born in Ahmedabad.....

Hannes Alfvén

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. He descri.....

Subra Suresh

Subra Suresh is an Indian-American biological engineer, materials scientist, and academic administrator. On 1 January 2018, he was inaugurated as the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, where he is also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor. Subra Suresh was Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Dean of the School .....

Carl-Henric Svanberg

Carl-Henric Svanberg, is a Swedish businessman and current Chairman of Volvo. He was Chairman of BP for eight years, from 2010 to 2018. Svanberg holds a master's degree in applied physics from the Linköping Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Uppsala University. Svanberg holds honorary doctorates from Luleå University of Technology and Linköping Unive.....

S. L. Kirloskar

Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar was an Indian businessman who was instrumental in the rapid growth of the Kirloskar Group. S. L. Kirloskar was the son of Laxmanrao Kirloskar, who established the Kirloskar Group and the township of Kirloskarwad What had started off with a small bicycle business by his father and uncle, emerged as one of India's flourishing business ventures, thanks to the ingenuity.....

Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao

N.T. Rama Rao, popularly known as NTR, was an Indian actor, producer, director, film editor and politician who served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for seven years over three terms. Rama Rao was born in Nimmakuru, a small village in Gudivada taluk of Krishna District. He was born to a farming couple, Nandamuri Lakshmayya Chowdary and Nandamuri Venkata Ramamma, but was given in adoption to hi.....

W. W. Hansen

William Webster Hansen was an American physicist and professor. He was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. William Webster Hansen, American physicist who contributed to the development of radar and is regarded as the founder of microwave technology.Encouraged by his father, a hardware store owner of Danish ancestry. Hansen showed great precocity in mathematics and elec.....

Shantanu Narayen

Shantanu Narayen is an Indian-American business executive. He has been the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Adobe Inc. since December 2007. Prior to this, he was the company's president and chief operating officer since 2005. Adobe’s mission is to change the world through digital experiences, serving a large customer base from students to business communicators to the world�.....

Benjamin Peary Pal

Benjamin Peary Pal or B.P. Pal FRS (26 May 1906 – 14 September 1989) was an Indian plant breeder and agronomist who served as a director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi and as the first Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He worked on wheat genetics and breeding but was also known for his interest in rose varieties. Pal was born in Mukandp.....

Tallapaka Annamacharya

Tallapaka Annamacharya , a Hindu saint and the earliest known Indian musician to compose songs called sankirtanas in praise of the Lord Venkateswara. He is the first known composer in carnatic music. The musical form of the keertana songs that he composed, which are still popular among Carnatic music concert artists, have strongly influenced the structure of Carnatic music compositions.[ Annamach.....

Basdeo Panday

The Hon. Basdeo Panday is a Trinidadian lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, actor, and civil servant who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first person of Indian descent along with being the first Hindu to hold the office of Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. .....

Rash Behari Bose

Rash Behari Bose was an Indian revolutionary leader against the British Raj. He was born in Village Subaldaha, Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal. He was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny, and later the Indian National Army. Rash Behari Bose handed over Indian National Army to Subhas Chandra Bose. . Rash Behari Bose was born in Subaldaha village, Bardhaman District in West Bengal.....

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig, then a predominantly German-speaking city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, born in Dutch Republic [now in the Netherlands]), Polish-born Dutch physicist and maker of scientific instruments. He is best known for in.....

Raju Narayana Swamy

Raju Narayana Swamy is an 1991-batch Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to the Kerala cadre, who is presently posted as the Principal Secretary to the State Government. He was District Magistrate and Collector of five districts in Kerala. Raju Narayana Swamy is an 1991-batch Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to the Kerala cadre, who is presently posted as the Principal S.....

John Bardeen

John Bardeen was an American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. The transistor revolutionized the e.....

Vinod Rai

Vinod Rai is a former IAS officer who served as the 11th Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He assumed office on 7 January 2008 till 22 May 2013. He is the current chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors and Honorary Advisor to the Railways and a member of the Railway Kaya Kalp Council. Vinod Rai (born 23 May in parsa, 1948) is a former IAS officer who served as the 11th Comptroller and .....

Shuji Nakamura

Japanese-American engineer Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and prolific inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology, professor Nakamura received bachelor’s (1977) and master’s (1979) degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokushima. In 1979 he went to work for a small company called Nichia Chemical in Tokushima. He initially w.....

Ram Mohan Roy

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. He was given the title of Raja by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor. His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, education and religion. He was known for his efforts to abolish the practices of sati and child m.....

Gustav Lindenthal

Gustav Lindenthal was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, among other bridges. Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. His structures not only serve the purpose they were designed for, but are aesthetically pleasing to the public eye. Gustav Lindenthal, Austrian-born American civil engineer known for designing Hell .....

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