N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys Technologies, is one of the most famous personalities in India’s I-T sector. Born on August 20, 1946, he obtained a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering under the University of Mysore in 1967, and went on to do his Masters from IIT Kanpur in 1969. He joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune. While at Pune, he met his wife Sudha Murthy. In 1981, he [...]
Famous Indian astro-physicist, Meghnad Saha was born on 6 October, 1893 in a tiny hamlet near Dhaka in Bangladesh. A student of the prestigious Presidency College, he was a professor at Allahabad University from 1923 to 1938 and after that a Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta in West Bengal. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1927 and was the President of the 21st session of the [...]
About Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, born on August 28, 1928, was a physicist and a policy maker from India. He played a vital role in the development of science and technology in India. He is well-known for nurturing the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, which was founded by his mentor Homi J. Bhabha in 1945. Career and Experiments His experiments included cosmic rays, through which he explored the properties of fundamental particles. He was [...]
An extraordinarily talented organizer and administrator of science, K.Chandrasekharan the famous scientist was born on 21 November 1920 in Machilipatnam in modern-day Andhra Pradesh. He worked in the fields of number theory and summability and he was a successful editor of the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. Komaravolu Chandrasekharan did his schooling from Bapatla in Guntur. Then he passed his Masters in Mathematics from the Presidency College, Chennai and was a Research Scholar in [...]
Eminent scientist Jagdish Chandra Bose was the first to prove that plants have feelings. Born on November 30, 1858 in Mymensingh in present-day Bangladesh, Jagdish Chandra Bose is credited with inventing wireless telegraphy a year before Marconi patented his invention. Jagdish’s father Bhagabanchandra Bose served as a Deputy Magistrate. Young Jagdish Chandra Bose had his early education in his village school before moving to Kolkata,West Bengal in 1869. He graduated in physical sciences in 1879, [...]
Famous Indian nuclear physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha was born on 30 October 1909 in Mumbai. Bhabha played a key role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program. Widely referred to as the father of India’s nuclear weapons program, Bhabha had his education at the Elphinstone College and the Royal Institute of Science before obtaining his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1934. He was influenced greatly by the legendary Paul Dirac. Bhabha [...]
Harish Chandra was a renowned physicist and mathematician of India. His father Chandrakishore was a civil engineer. Harish Chandra spent his childhood at his maternal grandfather’s home in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. At an early age he received education from a tutor. He studied at Christ Church High School till the age of fourteen, and passed his intermediate degree from Kanpur. He went to the University of Allahabad and studied theoretical physics, influenced by Dirac’s Principles [...]
G. N. Ramachandran was born on the 8th of October 1922, in Ernakulam, near Cochin in Kerala. The eldest son of G.R Narayana Iyer and Laxmi Ammal, G. N. Ramachandran was a mathematics wizard since his childhood. His father being the professor of Mathematics and the principal of Maharajah’s College, Ramachandran got his initial training at his home. It is said that throughout his school days, G. N. Ramachandran got a perfect hundred in his [...]
Dr. H. Khorana was born at Raipur in Punjab, which is now in Pakistan. His father was the “Patwari”, or taxation official of Raipur. His primary education began at home. Later he went to the D.A.V. Multan High School. In 1943 he completed his graduation in science and in the year 1945 he completed his M.Sc from the Punjab University, Lahore. In the same year, he went to the University of Liverpool for further studies. [...]
Bharat Ratna and Nobel Prize winner Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is known for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, named after him. He received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work. Born in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu on November 7, 1888, he completed his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Presidency College, Madras. Shortly thereafter, he joined the Indian Finance Department as an Assistant Accountant General [...]
