Laxman Nayak

Laxman Nayak or Laxman Naik was a tribal civil rights activist of South Odisha in eastern India. He belonged to Bhumia tribe of Odisha. Nayak, an Odia folk-hero of Koraput of southernmost part of Odisha and a cult-figure among its tribals, was born in Tentuliguma village of the Koraput district and his father Padlam Nayak was a tribal chief and 'Mustadaar' under 'Jeypore Samasthanam' in the then .....

Harley Earl

American automotive designer Harley Jarvis Earl was an American automotive designer and business executive. He was the initial designated head of design at General Motors, later becoming vice president, the first top executive ever appointed in design of a major corporation in American history. Harley Jefferson Earl, an industrial designer best known as the leading automotive stylist in the 20th-c.....

K. S. Chandrasekharan

Komaravolu Chandrasekharan was a professor at ETH Zurich and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his work in number theory and summability. Komaravolu Chandrasekharan was born and attended a District Board School in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, and then the High School at Bapatla, also in Guntur. He then obtained his M.A .....

Johan August Brinell

August Brinell was a Swedish Metallurgical Engineer. Brinell is noted as the creator of a method for quantifying the surface hardness of materials, now known as the Brinell hardness test. His name is also commemorated in the description of a failure mechanism of material surfaces known as Brinelling. The son of Johannes Månsson, a farmer, and Katarina Jonasdotter, Brinell graduated in 1871 from .....

Olive Dennis

Olive Wetzel Dennis was an engineer whose design innovations changed the nature of railway travel. Born in Thurlow, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Baltimore. Olive Dennis was the first woman to become a member of the American Railway Engineering Association. One of the first women to obtain a Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University, she found it difficult to find a meaningful job after her.....

Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan, also known as Tipu Sahab or the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India and a pioneer of rocket artillery. Tippu Sultan, also called Tippu Sahib or Fateh Ali Tipu, byname Tiger of Mysore, sultan of Mysore, who won fame in the wars of the late 18th century in southern India. Tippu was instructed in military tactics by French officers in the emplo.....

Rani of Jhansi

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, was an Indian queen, the Maharani consort of the Maratha princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853 as the wife of Maharaja Gangadhar Rao. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists. Rani Lakshmibai was born in the town of Varanasi into a Marathi Karhade Brahmin fami.....

Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st prime minister of India. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Con.....

Emil Škoda

Emil Ritter von Škoda was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist, founder of Škoda Works, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto and Škoda Transportation. Emil Skoda was one of the engineers who laid the foundations for the prosperity of heavy industry in the Czech lands in the early twentieth century. He was born, the son of a physician who was active in politics, in Pilsen (Plzeň) in wester.....

Ranjan Gogoi

Ranjan Gogoi is a former Indian Judge of the Supreme Court of India who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months between 2018 and 2019. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954)[6] is a former Indian Judge of the Supreme Court of India who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months between 2018 a.....

Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Honda Soichiro, a Japanese industrialist and engineer who was the founder of Honda Motor Company, Ltd. Honda began working as a mechanic in Tokyo at age 15 and si.....

Jean le Rond d’Alembert

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alemberts formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. The wa.....

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza is an Indian professional tennis player. A former doubles world No. 1, she has won six Grand Slam titles in her career. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No. 1 player. [9:53 pm, 14/11/2021] +91 95351 00349: In her singles career, Mirza had notable wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, and Marion Ba.....

Ashok Gadgil

Ashok Gadgil Is Faculty Senior Scientist and was Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division for 2010-2015 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley......

R. Vidyasagar Rao

Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao was an Indian government administrator and a Telangana activist. He was the Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources, Central Water Commission. After the formation of Telangana State, he was appointed as the Advisor on Irrigation to the Government of Telangana. Ramaraju Vidyasagar Rao . After the formation of Telangana State, he was appointed as the Advisor on Irr.....

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, social democrat, politician, and author who was a central figure in India during the middle third of the 20th century. He was a principal leader of the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist, and subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in India.....

Eva Zeisel

Eva Striker Zeisel was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships Eva Striker Zeisel was a Hungarian-born industrial designer whose career in ceramics began as a student at the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts. .....

P. Susheela

Pulapaka Susheela, popularly known as P. Susheela, is an Indian playback singer associated with the South Indian cinema primarily from Andhra Pradesh for over six decades. She is one of the greatest and best-known playback singers in India. Pulapaka Susheela has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as well as by the Asia Book of Records for performing a record number of songs in .....

The Lord Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PC, PRS was a British scientist who made extensive contributions to both theoretical and experimental physics. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies." Rayleigh provided the first theoretical treatment of the elastic.....

Salim Ali

Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the "Birdman of India", Salim Ali was the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and wrote several bird books that popularized ornithology in India. Salim Ali, was one of the very first scientists to carry out systematic bird surveys in India and abroad. His research work is consi.....

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