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 .....

Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami

Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami, popularly known as Swami, was an Indian geochemist and an honorary scientist at the geosciences division of the Physical Research Laboratory. Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami, popularly known as Swami, was an Indian geochemist and an honorary scientist at the geosciences division of the Physical Research Laboratory. He was known for his studies on low temperature geochem.....

Hideo Shima

Hideo Shima was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train. Shima was born in Osaka in 1901, and educated at the Tokyo Imperial University, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. Hideo Shima was the developer of Japan's Shinkansen or bullet train.His father was a part of a group that had built Japan's then emerging railroad industry. He got educated .....

Chandrashekarendra Saraswati

Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyava was the 68ᵗʰ Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. Mahaperiyava's discourses have been recorded in a Tamil book titled "Deivathin Kural". Mahaswami Chandrashekarendra saraswathi was born into a Kannadiga Smartha Hoysala Karnataka Brahmin family in Viluppuram, South Arcot .....

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was the Seventh President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence movement, he went on to hold several key offices in independent India—as the first Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister—before becoming the youngest-ever Indian pre.....

Rudolf E. Kálmán

Rudolf Emil Kálmán was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control.For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán the National Medal of Science on October 7, 200.....

James B. Francis

James Bicheno Francis was a British-American civil engineer, who invented the Francis turbine. James Bicheno Francis, British-American hydraulic engineer and inventor of the mixed-flow, or Francis, turbine (a combination of the radial- and axial-flow turbines) that was used for low-pressure installations. James Francis was born in South Leigh, near Witney, Oxfordshire in England, United Kingdom. .....

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan

Venkataraman Radhakrishnan was a space scientist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He ended his career as professor emeritus of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, of which he had previously been director from 1972 to 1994. Radhakrishnan was born in Tondiarpet, a suburb of Madras, to Nobel laureate physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his wife Lokasundari.....

Frederick McKinley Jones

Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement to the long-haul transportation of perishable goods. He co-founded Thermo King. Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who was also a pioneer in th.....

K. M. Vasudevan Pillai

K. M. Vasudevan Pillai is an Indian educationist, social entrepreneur, institution-builder, and philanthropist. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai is the founder and CEO of the Mahatma Education Society, a not-for-profit trust that manages 48 educational institutions, from schools and colleges to institutions of architecture, management, engineering, vocational education, and teacher training. The institution.....

Georg Bednorz

Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bednorz , from childhood, was more practically inclined, preferring to work on motorcycles and cars. In high school he developed an interest in the natural sciences, focusing on chemistry. In 1968, Bednorz.....

Irving Wightman Colburn

Irving Wightman Colburn was an American inventor and manufacturer. Colburn developed a process for the production of continuous flat glass disks which made the mass production for window panes possible. Colburn began his experiments in 1899. In one patent for a machine to produce flat glass on 25 March 1902. Irving Wightman Colburn (16 May 1861 – 4 September 1917) was an American inventor and ma.....

C. H. Hanumantha Rao

Chennamaneni Hanumantha Rao is an Indian economist and writer. He was a member of the National Advisory Council from 2004 to 2008 and chaired the Technical Committee on Drought prone Areas Programme and Desert Development Programme of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices. Awards: Padma Bhushan Rao was born in Karimnagar of present-day Telangana, India.[6] He completed .....

Arthur Cotton

General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton KCSI was a British general and irrigation engineer. Cotton devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals throughout British India. He helped many people by building the Dowleswaram Barrage, the Prakasam Barrage and the Kurnool Cuddappah Canal. .....

Claude Dornier

Claude Honoré Désiré Dornier was a German airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane. Dornier completed his education in 1907 at Munich’s technical college and three years later began working for Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin, at the Zeppelin airship factory at Fr.....

Victor Menezes

Victor Menezes retired as a Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup after a 32-year global career with the company. He served previously as Chairman and CEO of Citibank. He was head of Citi’s Emerging Markets business with responsibility for its corporate and consumer businesses and global product responsibility for e-Business and Global Securities Services. He has headed Citi’s businesses and lived.....

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