Abul Kalam Azad

Maulana Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad was an Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Following India's independence, he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was one of the foremost leaders of Indian freedom struggle. He was also a renowned .....

Anil Kakodkar

Anil Kakodkar is an Indian nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay from 1996–2000. Anil Kakodkar (born on 11th November, 1943) joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 1964, following the one year post graduate .....

Andrei Tupolev

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as Director of the Tupolev Design Bureau. Tupolev was an early pioneer of aeronautics in Russia and served as a protégé of Nikolay Zhukovsky. Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev, one of the Soviet Union’s foremost aircraft designers, whose bureau (see Tupolev) produced a number of military bombers.....

Surendranath Banerjee

Sir Surendranath Banerjee was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Rule. He founded a nationalist organization called the Indian National Association, through which he led two sessions of the Indian National Conference in 1883 and 1885, along with Anandamohan Bose. Sir Surendranath Banerjea, , one of the founders of modern India and a proponent of autonomy within the Br.....

Chewang Norphel

Chewang Norphel is an Indian civil engineer from Ladakh, who has built 15 artificial glaciers. He has earned the nickname Ice Man. Falling in the rain-shadow area of the Himalaya, Ladakh is a cold, mountainous desert. During winter, temperature drops below the -30°c mark. Annual average rainfall is 50 mm. Dearth of water is the most important problem. The only source is glacier water from the mou.....

Vinod Dham

Born: 1950 (age 71 years), Pune Vinod Dham is an engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is known as 'Father of the Pentium Chip' for his contribution to the development of Intel's Pentium micro-processor He is a mentor Vinod Dham is popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor. Born in 1950 in Pune, he had his initial schooling in Pune. . .His father was a member of the army .....

Jack Kilby

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Jack Kilby can be rightly acknowledged as the face of modern computing, for had it not been for his invention of the integrated circuit and microchip, the computer indust.....

Bhagwan Lal Indraji

Bhagwan Lal Indraji or Bhagwanlal Indraji was an Indian archaeologist and scholar. A member of the Royal Asiatic Society's Bombay branch, he made transcripts of several ancient Indian inscriptions, including the Hathigumpha inscription. Bhagwan Lal Indraji or Bhagwanlal Indraji was an Indian archaeologist and scholar. A member of the Royal Asiatic Society's Bombay branch, he made transcripts of se.....

Lala Kamlapat Singhania

Lala Kamlapat Singhania was an Indian industrialist, who founded the J. K. Organisation, one of India's largest conglomerate company. He was born to a Marwari Bania family in Kanpur, then part of the North-Western Provinces in British Raj. .....

C. V. Raman

Full name: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. C.V Raman, an Indian physicist whose work was influen.....

Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. As of July 2021, Yang has a net worth of over $2 billion. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder, and the former CEO of ‘Yahoo! Inc.’ Yang was born with the name Yang Chi.....

Aruna Miller

Aruna Miller is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the state of Maryland. Miller is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing Legislative District 15 in Montgomery County. Aruna Miller Katragadda is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the state of Maryland. Miller is a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates rep.....

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian, engineer and explorer, and amateur archaeologist, often regarded as one of the first Egyptologists. His discoveries include the tomb of Seti I, the temple at Karnak, and the pyramid of Khafre, making a fundam.....

Chittaranjan Das

Nickname: Deshbandhu Spouse: Basanti Devi (m. 1896–1925) Party: Swaraj Party Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu, was an Indian freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal during the period of British colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das. Chitta Ranjan Das was an Indian.....

Jamnalal Bajaj

Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj was an Indian industrialist. He founded the Bajaj Group of companies in the 1920s, and the group now has 24 companies, including six that are listed on the bourses. He was also a close and beloved associate of Mahatma Gandhi, who is known to have often declared that Jamnalal was his fifth son. An honest industrialist could perhaps be a myth in India given how frequently sca.....

Charles K. Kao

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Grand Bauhinia Medal, MORE Sir Charles Kuen Kao GBM KBE FRS FREng was a Chinese-born British-American electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. Charles Kao, in full Charles Kuen Kao, Pinyin Gao Kun, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2009 for his discovery of how light can .....

Daniel Rutherford

Discovered: Nitrogen Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh to Dr John Rutherford. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under William Cullen and Joseph Black. Rutherford obtained his MD in 1772. His dissertation, titled “De aere fixo dicto aut m.....

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Amartya Sen, an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members. Sen was best known for his work .....

Amar Bose

Amar Gopal Bose was an Bengali-American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. The brilliant mind behind the founding of the Bose Corporation, a name which spells supreme quality in the fields of acoustics and sound systems, Am.....

Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011. Cook previously served as the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and serves on its board of directors. Before being named CEO in August 2011, Tim was Apple’s chief operating officer and was responsible for all of th.....