Janaki Ammal biography: born in Tellicherry in 1897, the pioneering botanist bred sweeter sugarcane for India and co-wrote a standard atlas of…
M. Visvesvaraya biography: born in 1861, the engineer and Dewan of Mysore built the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and received the Bharat…
Verghese Kurien biography: born in Kozhikode in 1921, the engineer who built Amul led Operation Flood and made India the world's largest…
Raja Ramanna biography: born in 1925, the nuclear physicist led the team that carried out India's first nuclear test at Pokhran in…
C. N. R. Rao biography: born in Bangalore in 1934, the chemist has published more than 1,700 papers and received the Bharat…
Satish Dhawan biography: born in Srinagar in 1920, the aerospace engineer led IISc for nineteen years and ISRO for twelve, shaping India's…
Salim Ali biography: born in Bombay in 1896, the 'Birdman of India' surveyed the birds of the subcontinent for six decades and…
Birbal Sahni biography: born in 1891, the founder of Indian palaeobotany studied the fossil plants of the subcontinent and set up the…
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar biography: born in 1894, the chemist who became the first head of CSIR built India's chain of national laboratories.
Har Gobind Khorana biography: born in 1922 in a Punjab village, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for cracking the genetic code…
Satyendra Nath Bose biography: born in Calcutta in 1894, the physicist whose 1924 paper founded quantum statistics gave his name to the…
S. Janaki biography: born 23 April 1938 in Guntur district, the playback singer recorded tens of thousands of songs in South Indian…
