TOP 10 INDIAN SCIENTISTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

Indian Scientists have been major contributors to the world of discovery. Let's take a look at a few of these history-makers.

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Name: CV Raman Born: 1888 Death: 1970 Contribution: Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for work on the scattering of light, (the Raman effect).

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Name: Homi J Bhabha Born: 1906 Death: 1966 Contribution: Founding director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR. "Father of the Indian nuclear program"

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Name: Srinivasa Ramanujan Born: 1887 Death: 1920 Contribution: A self-taught mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and infinite series.

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Name: Satyendra Nath Bose Born: 1894 Death: 1974 Contribution: A theoretical physicist best known for his work on quantum statistics, which led to the development of Bose-Einstein condensates.

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Name: Meghnad Saha Born: 1893 Death: 1956 Contribution: A physicist and astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, which is used to calculate the ionization state of a gas.

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Name: Subrahamanyan Chandrasekhar Born: 1910 Death: 1995 Contribution: Astrophysicist. Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. Known for the Chandrasekhar limit.

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Name: H Gobind Khorana Born: 1922 Death: 2011 Contribution: Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his work on the genetic code. Known for genetic code of alanine

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Name: Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Born: 1931 Death: 2015 Contribution: A scientist and politician who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.

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Name: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Born: 1893 Death: 1972 Contribution: A statistician who is known for developing the Mahalanobis distance, which is a statistical measure of distance between two or more objects

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