Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The Great Indian Scientists - 2

Indian Scientists and their Inventions

14. SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR




(Born: 21-02-1894  Died: 01-01-1955)


FIELD: Chemistry

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
"Father of Research Laboratories"
First Director for "Directorate of Scientific and Industrial Research"
When he was Director for SCIR he setup 12 CSIR Laboratories in India.
He did considerable work in Applied and Industrial Chemistry.




15. VIKRAM SARABHAI


 
(Born: 12-08-1919  Died: 30-12-1971)

FIELD: Physics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
"Father of Indian Space Program"
Established Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad.




16. C.R. RAO
 (Born: 10-09-1920)
FIELDS: Mathematics, Statistics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
Cramer-Rao Inequality
Rao-Blackwell Theorem
Rao's Orthogonal Arrays
Rao's Score Test



17. K.S. CHANDRASEKHARAN

 
(Born: 21-11-1920)

FIELDS: Mathematics (Number Theory, Summability)

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
Famous Indian Scientist
Great Talented Organizer and Administrator of Science
With his Hard Work Tata Institute of Fundamental Research recognised worldwide



18. G.N. RAMACHANDRAN




(Born: 08-10-1922  Died: 07-04-2001)

FIELD: Biophysics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
Ramachandran plot (Ramachandran phy-psi plot)
Made several Discoveries in Molecular Physics.
His contributions in the field of X-ray crystallography were very important
(anomalous dispersion, new kinds of Fourier syntheses, X-ray intensity statistics)



19. HARISH CHANDRA



(Born: 11-10-1923  Died: 16-10-1983)

FIELD: Physics, Mathematics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
Lie Groups
Real Lie Groups
Lie Algebras
p-adic Groups
Finite- Dimensional of Semi-simple Lie Groups
Plancheral Measure
Harish Chandra's Character Formula
Harish Chandra's Isomorphism
Harish Chandra's C-Function
Harish Chandra's Homomorphism
Harish Chandra's Module
Harish Chandra's Regularity Theorem
Harish Chandra's Transform
Harish Chandra's Schwartz Space
Harish Chandra's Ξ Function 
Harish Chandra's Great Contributions are - Theory of Lie Groups, Harmonic Analysis, Representation Theory and related areas




20. M.K. VAINU BAPPU




(Born: 10-08-1927  Died: 19-08-1982)

FIELD: Astronomy

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
Bappu-Bok-Newkrik
Bappu-Wilson Effect


21. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM



(Born: 15-10-1931)

FIELD: Nuclear Physics

WORKS/INVENTIONS:
"Missile Man of India" 
"Father of India Missile Program"
Ballistic Missile
Launch Vehicle Technology
Kalam-Raju Stent (Low Cost Coronary Stent)
Kalam-Raju Tablet ((Rugged Tablet PC for healthcare in Rural Areas)

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