Siddhartha Mukherjee biography: born in New Delhi in 1970, the cancer physician won the Pulitzer Prize for The Emperor of All Maladies.
Atul Gawande, born in Brooklyn in 1965 to Indian immigrant doctors, is a surgeon and New Yorker writer, author of The Checklist…
Vivek Murthy biography: born in 1977 to parents from Karnataka, the physician twice served as Surgeon General of the United States and…
Shubhanshu Shukla biography: born 10 October 1985 in Lucknow, the Air Force test pilot became the first Indian to visit the International…
M. G. K. Menon biography: born in Mangalore in 1928, the physicist led TIFR at 38, briefly chaired ISRO and shaped Indian…
Yash Pal biography: born in 1926, the physicist led the SITE satellite television experiment, chaired the UGC and became India's best-loved explainer…
U. R. Rao biography: born near Udupi in 1932, the space scientist built India's first satellite, Aryabhata, and chaired ISRO from 1984…
P. C. Mahalanobis biography: born in Calcutta in 1893, the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute devised the Mahalanobis distance and shaped…
Kadambini Ganguly biography: born in 1861, she was one of India's first two women graduates and among the first Indian women to…
Jayant Narlikar biography: born in Kolhapur in 1938, the astrophysicist developed an alternative theory of gravity with Fred Hoyle, founded IUCAA and…
Yellapragada Subbarow biography: born in 1895 in Andhra, the biochemist's work led to folic acid, the cancer drug methotrexate and the first…
Anna Mani (1918-2001) worked with C. V. Raman, led the instruments division of the India Meteorological Department and helped make India self-reliant…
