Ancient and mediaeval Indian scientists

• Aryabhata
  Aryabhata
  Aryabhata was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy...
  
  
• Baudhayana
  Baudhayana
  Baudhāyana, was an Indian mathematician, whowas most likely also a priest. He is noted as the author of the earliest Sulba Sūtra—appendices to the Vedas giving rules for the construction of altars—called the , which contained several important mathematical results. He is older than the other...
  
  
• Bhāskara I
  Bhaskara I
  Bhāskara was a 7th century Indian mathematician, who was apparently the first to write numbers in the Hindu-Arabic decimal system with a circle for the zero, and who gave a unique and remarkable rational approximation of the sine function in his commentary on Aryabhata's work...
  
  
• Brahmadeva
  Brahmadeva
  Brahmadeva was an Indian mathematician. He was the author of Karanaprakasa, which is a commentary on Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya. Its contents deal partly with trigonometry and its applications to astronomy.He was well known and intelligent scientist.-External links:...
  
  
• Brahmagupta
  Brahmagupta
  Brahmagupta was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote many important works on mathematics and astronomy. His best known work is the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta , written in 628 in Bhinmal...
  
  
• Charaka
  Charaka
  Charaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India...
  
  
• Halayudha
  Halayudha
  Halayudha was a 10th century Indian mathematician who wrote the ', a commentary on Pingala's Chandah-shastra, containing a clear description of Pascal's triangle ....
  
  

• Jayadeva
  Jayadeva
  Jayadeva was a Sanskrit poet circa 1200 AD. He is most known for his composition, the epic poem Gita Govinda, which depicts the divine love of Krishna-an avatar of Vishnu and his consort, Radha, and it is mentioned that Radha is greater than Hari, and is considered an important text in the...
  
  
• Nagarjuna
  Nagarjuna
  Nāgārjuna was an important Buddhist teacher and philosopher. Along with his disciple Āryadeva, he is credited with founding the Mādhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism...
  
  
• Sushrut
• Varahmihir
• Knaad

Modern Indian scientists

• Anurag chaurasia – a biotechnologist working with the ICAR govt of India,Discovered anti-cancer drug from Piper betle
• Animesh Chakravorty
  Animesh Chakravorty
  Animesh Chakravorty is a chemist. He was awarded his PhD from Calcutta University and was Research Associate MIT and Harvard; Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Professor and Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, IACS; Visiting...
  
  
• Anil Kakodkar
  Anil Kakodkar
  Anil Kakodkar is an eminent Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy. Before leading India's Nuclear Programme, he was the Director of the Bhabha Atomic...
  
  
• APJ Abdul Kalam – known as the 'missile man of India', architect of Agni series of nuclear missiles
• Arun Netravali
  Arun Netravali
  Arun N. Netravali is an Indian-American engineer who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies.-Early...
  
   – Chief Scientist and former CEO of Bell Labs.
• Arun Majumdar
  Arun Majumdar
  Arun Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay graduate who is presently President Barack Obama's nominee for the Under Secretary of Energy...
  
  
• Ashok Gadgil
  Ashok Gadgil
  Ashok Gadgil is a physicist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and a professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for "UV Waterworks" - a simple, effective and inexpensive water disinfection system.-Education:He...
  
   – inventor of the UV-disinfection method
• Ashoke Sen
  Ashoke Sen
  Ashoke Sen , FRS, is an Indian theoretical physicist. He has made a number of major original contributions to the subject of string theory, including his landmark paper on strong-weak coupling duality or S-duality, which was influential in changing the course of research in the field...
  
   – string theorist
• U. Aswathanarayana
  U. Aswathanarayana
  Uppugunduri Aswathanarayana is the Honorary Director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management, India. He is counted among the doyens of geology in independent India and is revered as a leading scientist from Andhra Pradesh...
  
   - Geologist
• Birbal Sahni
  Birbal Sahni
  Birbal Sahni FRS was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who took an interest in archaeology...
  
  
• CNR Rao
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
  Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
  Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis FRS was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India...
  
   – founder of Indian Statistical Institute
  Indian Statistical Institute
  Indian Statistical Institute is a public research institute and university in Kolkata's northern outskirt of Baranagar, India founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1931...
  
  , known for introducing the concept of Mahalanobis distance
  Mahalanobis distance
  In statistics, Mahalanobis distance is a distance measure introduced by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1936. It is based on correlations between variables by which different patterns can be identified and analyzed. It gauges similarity of an unknown sample set to a known one. It differs from Euclidean...
  
  
• C. R. Rao
  C. R. Rao
  Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US...
  
   – known for Rao–Blackwell theorem
  Rao–Blackwell theorem
  In statistics, the Rao–Blackwell theorem, sometimes referred to as the Rao–Blackwell–Kolmogorov theorem, is a result which characterizes the transformation of an arbitrarily crude estimator into an estimator that is optimal by the mean-squared-error criterion or any of a variety of similar...
  
  , Cramér–Rao bound
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
  Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
  Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in the world. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected...
  
   – physicist who discovered and modelled the Raman effect
• D. Bap Reddy
  D. Bap Reddy
  Dr. D. Bap Reddy is an Internationally renowned scientist and administrator who served at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, United States in 1950...
  
   – entomologist
• D. R. Kaprekar
  D. R. Kaprekar
  Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was an Indian mathematician who discovered several results in number theory, including a class of numbers and a constant named after him...
  
   – number theorist
• Dr. Jayant Narlikar – astrophysicist whose work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle–Narlikar theory, demonstrated that a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein
  Albert Einstein
  Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
  
  ’s theory of relativity
  Theory of relativity
  The theory of relativity, or simply relativity, encompasses two theories of Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. However, the word relativity is sometimes used in reference to Galilean invariance....
  
   and Mach's principle
  Mach's principle
  In theoretical physics, particularly in discussions of gravitation theories, Mach's principle is the name given by Einstein to an imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach....
  
  
• Vinod Johri
  Vinod Johri
  Vinod Johri is an Indian astrophysicist. He is an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995. Johri has over 75 research publications and articles published in pioneering journals...
  
  
• G Madhavan Nair
• G. N. Ramachandran
• Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
  Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
  Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava is a bio-informatician and head of the Bioinformatics Centre at the Institute of Microbial Technology .-Early years and Education:...
  
   – bioinformatician
• Ganapathi Thanikaimoni
  Ganapathi Thanikaimoni
  Ganapathi Thanikaimoni , often referred to as Thani was widely known for his manifold contributions to the science of palynology...
  
  
• Gomatam Ravi - theoretical quantum physicist, one of the pioneers in the field of consciousness studies
• Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran
  Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran
  Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran, or G.N. Ramachandran, was a prominent Indian scientist, best known for his work that led to his creation of the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure. He was the first to propose a triple-helical model for the structure of collagen...
  
  
• Govindarajan Padmanabhan
  Govindarajan Padmanabhan
  Govindarajan Padmanaban is a renowned biochemist and a pioneer in Indian biotechnology. He was former director of the Indian Institute of Science and presently serving as honorary professor in the department of biochemistry, IISc.-Early life and education:Padmanaban was brought up in a family of...
  
  
• Har Gobind Khorana
• Harish Chandra
• Homi Bhabha-atomic physicist
• Jagdish Chandra Bose
  Jagdish Chandra Bose
  Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS was a Bengali polymath: a physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as well as an early writer of science fiction...
  
   – a pioneer of radio and microwave optics and inventor of the crescograph
  Crescograph
  A crescograph is a device for measuring growth in plants. It was invented in the early 20th century by Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian scientist....
  
  
• Jagmohan Lal Razdan
  Jagmohan Lal Razdan
  Dr. Jagmohan Lal Razdan was a pioneer in the field of radiology in India. He was born into an affluent Kashmiri Pandit family based in Gwalior, Central India, and educated at Cambridge, England....
  
   – pioneer of radiology in India
• K. Radhakrishnan
  K. Radhakrishnan
  K. Radhakrishnan may refer to:*K. Radhakrishnan , Indian space scientist*K. Radhakrishnan , Indian carrom player*K. Radhakrishnan , Chief engineer of Kerala State Electricity Board...
  
  
• K. R. Ramanathan
  K. R. Ramanathan
  Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan was an Indian physicist and meteorologist. He was the first Director of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. Ramanathan was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1965 and Padma Vibhushan in 1976....
  
  
• Kailas Nath Kaul
  Kailas Nath Kaul
  Professor Kailas Nath Kaul , FLS was an Indian botanist, agronomist, agricultural scientist, horticulturist, herbalist, and naturalist, and a world authority on Arecaceae in the 1950s...
  
   – botanist
• Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao
  Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao
  Prof. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao, was an Indian physicist in the field of Spectroscopy.Rangadhama Rao is best known for his work on Spectroscopy, his role in the development of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance , and his long association with Physics labs of Andhra University...
  
  
• Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
• Krishna Ella
  Krishna Ella
  Krishna M. Ella is a first generation, Indian entrepreneur, modern scientist and founder of Bharat Biotech International Ltd.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Lalji Singh
  Lalji Singh
  Lalji Singh is an Indian molecular biologist. He currently serves as the Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University and was the director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology before that...
  
  
• M. G. K. Menon
• M. S. Swaminathan
  M. S. Swaminathan
  Maankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist in Kuttanad, kerala. He was the second of four sons of a doctor.He is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India", for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in...
  
  
• Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
  Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
  Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao is an eminent Indian scientist, born on January 21, 1948 at Mysore, India. He has been awarded Padma Shri in Science and Engineering category by the Government of India. He is the President of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research ,...
  
  
• Manindra Agrawal
  Manindra Agrawal
  Manindra Agrawal is a professor at the department of computer science and engineering and the Dean of Resource, Planning and Generation at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is also the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics.-Early life:Manindra Agrawal obtained a...
  
   – computer scientist, co-developor of the AKS primality testing algorithm
• Manilal Bhaumik – pioneer of laser therapy
• M.A.Padmanabha Rao - reported Bharat radiation, and UV dominant optical radiation emissions from radioisotopes and XRF sources in 2010.
• Man Mohan Sharma
  Man Mohan Sharma
  Man Mohan Sharma is an eminent Indian chemical engineering scientist. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the University of Mumbai, Department of Chemical Technology...
  
  
• Meghnad Saha
  Meghnad Saha
  Meghnad Saha FRS was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.-Early life:...
  
  

• ML Madan
• Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
  Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
  Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is a leading control theorist. He is currently the Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at Tata Consultancy Services where he headed the Advanced Technology Center...
  
   - Control Theorist
• Nariman Mehta
  Nariman Mehta
  Nariman B. Mehta was born in Bombay, India on April 8, 1920. He began his schooling at the St. Xavier's College,where he received a B.S. in Chemistry/Physics and a B.A. in English/Economics....
  
   – developer of the smoking cessation drug Zyban
• Narendra Karmarkar
  Narendra Karmarkar
  Narendra K. Karmarkar is an Indian mathematician, renowned for developing Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.- Biography :...
  
   – applied mathematician who developed Karmarkar's algorithm
  Karmarkar's algorithm
  Karmarkar's algorithm is an algorithm introduced by Narendra Karmarkar in 1984 for solving linear programming problems. It was the first reasonably efficient algorithm that solves these problems in polynomial time...
  
  
• Nitya Anand
  Nitya Anand
  Nitya Anand is a scientist who was the director of Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow for several years. He was involved in carrying out some pioneering work on pharmaceutical sciences. In 2005 Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission appointed him chairman of its scientific committee...
  
  
• Niyaz Ahmed
  Niyaz Ahmed
  Niyaz Ahmed is an Indian professor of microbial sciences, a veterinarian by training, science blogger, and an Open Access advocate based in Hyderabad, India.-Training and career:...
  
  
• Obaid Siddiquee
• Padmanabhan Balaram
  Padmanabhan Balaram
  Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and the director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.-Education:Balaram received his Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, Pune followed by a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and his PhD...
  
  
• Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje
  Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje
  Dr. Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje was an Indian revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian who was among the founding fathers of the Ghadar Party....
  
  
• Patcha Ramachandra Rao
  Patcha Ramachandra Rao
  *Dr. Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University who was also a student and faculty at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical...
  
  
• Prem Chand Pandey
  Prem Chand Pandey
  Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian scientist and academic in the fields of Satellite Oceanography, Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Science, Antarctic and Climate Change.-Education and career:...
  
   – oceanographer, meteorologist, physicist
  Physicist
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
  
  , and founder director of the NCAOR
  NCAOR
  The National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research as an Indian research and development institution, and an autonomous Institution of the Department of Ocean Development , Government of India. Situated at Vasco, Goa, it is responsible for administering the Indian Antarctic Program and maintains...
  
  , the Indian Antarctic Program
  Indian Antarctic Program
  The Indian Antarctic Program is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional program under the control of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. It was initiated in 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica...
  
  
• Abhay Ashtekar
  Abhay Ashtekar
  Abhay Vasant Ashtekar is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is the Eberly Professor of Physics and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University. As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its...
  
   – known for 'Ashtekar Variables', and a founder of the theory of Loop quantum gravity
  Loop quantum gravity
  Loop quantum gravity , also known as loop gravity and quantum geometry, is a proposed quantum theory of spacetime which attempts to reconcile the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity...
  
  
• Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
  Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research , a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India....
  
  
• Atul Kumar
  Atul Kumar
  Atul Kumar [ अतुल कुमार् ] is a scientist in the Central Drug Research Institute of Lucknow, India....
  
   – medicinal chemist, developer of a new antiosteoporosis drug candidate
• Rajeev Motwani
  Rajeev Motwani
  Rajeev Motwani was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google and PayPal, and a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in...
  
  
• Ranajit Chakraborty
  Ranajit Chakraborty
  Professor Ranajit Chakraborty is a human geneticist and currently the Robert A. Kehoe Professor and Director of Center for Genome Information at College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. He was born in West Bengal, India....
  
  
• Roddam Narasimha
  Roddam narasimha
  Roddam Narasimha is an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was the chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research JNCASR, India...
  
  
• S. Bhagavantam
• S. Ramaseshan
  S. Ramaseshan
  Sivaraj Ramseshan was an Indian scientist known for his work in the field of crystallography. Ramaseshan served as Director of the Indian Institute of Science and was awarded the Padma Bhushan. Ramaseshan is the nephew of Indian scientist and Nobel laureate Sir C. V...
  
  
• Salim Ali
  Salim Ali (ornithologist)
  Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Known as the "birdman of India", Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and his bird books helped develop ornithology...
  
  
• Samir K. Brahmachari
• Satish Dhawan
  Satish Dhawan
  Satish Dhawan was an Indian rocket scientist and a pioneer aerospace engineer who was born in Srinagar, India and educated in India and the United States...
  
  
• Satyendra Nath Bose
  Satyendra Nath Bose
  Satyendra Nath Bose FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation...
  
  
• Seyed E. Hasnain
  Seyed E. Hasnain
  Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain is Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi, a renowned academic, science policy advisor and institution builder based in Delhi, India.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry
  Algebraic geometry
  Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which combines techniques of abstract algebra, especially commutative algebra, with the language and the problems of geometry. It occupies a central place in modern mathematics and has multiple conceptual connections with such diverse fields as complex...
  
   and Abhyankar's conjecture
  Abhyankar's conjecture
  In abstract algebra, Abhyankar's conjecture is a 1957 conjecture of Shreeram Abhyankar, on the Galois groups of function fields of characteristic p...
  
  
• Sir M. Visvesvaraya
• Srinivasa Ramanujan
  Srinivasa Ramanujan
  Srīnivāsa Aiyangār Rāmānujan FRS, better known as Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan was a Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions...
  
  
• Subrata Ray-Materials Development
• Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
• Suri Bhagavantam
  Suri Bhagavantam
  Suri Bhagavantam B.Sc., M.Sc., D.Sc. , famous Indian scientist and administrator. He was Vice chancellor of Osmania University and Director of Indian Institute of Science and Defence Research and Development Organization.-Brief lifesketch:He was born in Agiripalli village in Andhra Pradesh...
  
   - Physicist
• Sunil Mukhi
  Sunil Mukhi
  Sunil Mukhi is an Indian scientist working in the areas of string theory, quantum field theory and particle physics.-Career:He earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook...
  
  
• Sujoy K. Guha
  Sujoy K. Guha
  Sujoy Kumar Guha is an Indian biomedical engineer. He was born in Patna, India, in 1939.He did his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, followed by a Master's Degree in electrical engineering at IIT, and another Master's degree from the University of Illinois,...
  
  
• Rajeev Kumar Varshney
  Rajeev Kumar Varshney
  Rajeev Kumar Varshney is a geneticist currently working as Principal Scientist- Applied Genomics at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, India and also Theme Leader - Comparative and Applied Genomics , , hosted at CIMMYT, Mexico.Rajeev Varshney has over 10...
  
  
• Rajesh Gopakumar
  Rajesh Gopakumar
  Rajesh Gopakumar is a theoretical physicist at Harish-Chandra Research Institute , Allahabad, India. He hails from the state of Kerala and was the 1987 topper in IIT-JEE.-Career:...
  
  - string theorist
• Sunder Lal Hora
  Sunder Lal Hora
  Sunder Lal Hora was an Indian ichthyologist.Famous for the Satpura Hypothesis, a zoo-geographical hypothesis proposed by him that suggests that the central Indian Satpura Range of hills acted as a bridge providing for the Malayan affinity of many Indian fauna and flora in the peninsula and the...
  
  
• Tej P Singh
  Tej P Singh
  Tej P. Singh is an eminent Indian biophysicist who has made original and novel contributions to the structural studies of proteins and has implemented a strong programme on rational structure based drug design.-Work:...
  
  
• Udipi Ramachandra Rao
• Vainu Bappu
  Vainu Bappu
  Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union. Bappu helped establish several astronomical institutions in India——including the Vainu Bappu Observatory named after him—and also contributed to the establishment of the modern Indian...
  
  
• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
• Vijay P. Bhatkar
  Vijay P. Bhatkar
  Dr Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an IT computer scientist from India. He is best known as an architect of the PARAM series of Supercomputers, GIST multilingual technology and Education-To-Home mission. He is widely recognized for his noteworthy contributions in bringing ICT to the masses through a...
  
  
• Vikram Sarabhai
  Vikram Sarabhai
  Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program; legendary Homi Bhabha’s successor as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and was as at home in the world of the arts as in his favourite laboratory. His interests were vast and...
  
  
• William Stephen Atkinson
  William Stephen Atkinson
  William Stephen Atkinson was a British lepidopterist who worked for much of his life in India.William was the eldest son of Rev. Thomas D, Atkinson, of Chesterton, in Suffolk. He became interested in nature at Cannock Chase, when his father became Vicar of Rugeley. He started collecting British...
  
  
• Yelavarthy Nayudamma
  Yelavarthy Nayudamma
  Yelavarthy Nayudamma was a chemical engineer and a scientist killed on Air India Flight 182 .- Introduction :...
  
   - Chemical Engineer
• Yellapragada Subbarao
  Yellapragada Subbarao
  Yellapragada Subbarao was an Indian biochemist who discovered the function of Adenosine Triphosphate as a energy source in the cell, and made important contributions to the treatment of cancer. Most of his career was spent in the United States...
  
  
• S. Prabhu- Nematologist working in TNAU