Vikram Sarabhai
A physicist and astronomer, Vikram Sarabhai is recognized as the Father of the Indian Space Program. He founded the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in 1947.
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Jagdish Chandra Bose was a biologist who pioneered experimental science in the Indian subcontinent.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
An Indian-born British-American structural biologist, Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan is known for his past work on histone and chromatin structure.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician who made notable contributions to mathematical analysis, infinite series, number theory, and continued fractions.
Visvesvaraya
An Indian civil engineer and statesman, Visvesvaraya was also the 19th Diwan of Mysore. He was the chief engineer of Krishna Sagara Dam in Mysore.
CV Raman
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist who is known to have discovered that when light crosses a transparent material, some of the deflected light has its amplitude and wavelength changed.
Meghnad Saha
Best known for developing the Saha Ionization Equation, Meghnad Saha was an Indian astrophysicist. He was also elected to the parliament in 1952.
Satyendranath Bose
Bose famously collaborated with Albert Einstein in developing the Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of Bose-Einstein condensate.
Salim Ali
Also referred to as the Birdman of India, Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an ornithologist who was the first one to conduct systematic bird surveys across India.
S. Chandrasekhar
S. Chandrasekhara was an Indian-American astrophysicist who received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1983 along with William A. Fowler.