ACHIEVEMENTS OF INDIANS IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Introduction |
Achievements of Indians in Science and Technology in Ancient and medieval India |
Baudhayana (800 BCE)
Kanada Sage
Charaka (300 BCE)
Sushruta
Aryabhatta (476- 550 CE)
Varahamihira (505- 587 CE)
Brahmagupta (598 – 670 CE)
Bhaskara 1 (600 – 680 CE)
Bhaskaracharya or Bhaskara II (1114- 1185)
Nobel Laureates of India in Science |
C.V. Raman:
Raman effect, change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules. When a beam of light traverses a dust-free, transparent sample of a chemical compound, a small fraction of the light emerges in directions other than that of the incident (incoming) beam. Most of this scattered light is of unchanged wavelength. A small part, however, has wavelengths different from that of the incident light; its presence is a result of the Raman effect. |
Har Gobind Khorana:
In the 1960s Khorana confirmed Nirenberg’s findings that the way the four different types of nucleotides are arranged on the spiral “staircase” of the DNA molecule determines the chemical composition and function of a new cell. The 64 possible combinations of the nucleotides are read off along a strand of DNA as required to produce the desired amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. Khorana added details about which serial combinations of nucleotides from which specific amino acids. He also proved that the nucleotide code is always transmitted to the cell in groups of three, called codons. Khorana also determined that some of the codons prompt the cell to start or stop the manufacture of proteins. |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar:
By the early 1930s, scientists had concluded that, after converting all of their hydrogen to helium, stars lose energy and contract under the influence of their own gravity. These stars, known as white dwarf stars, contract to about the size of Earth, and the electrons and nuclei of their constituent atoms are compressed to a state of extremely high density. Chandrasekhar determined what is known as the Chandrasekhar limit—that a star having a mass more than 1.44 times that of the Sun does not form a white dwarf but instead continues to collapse, blows off its gaseous envelope in a supernova explosion, and becomes a neutron star. An even more massive star continues to collapse and becomes a black hole. These calculations contributed to the eventual understanding of supernovas, neutron stars, and black holes. Chandrasekhar came up with the idea for a limit on his voyage to England in 1930. However, his ideas met strong opposition, particularly from English astronomer Arthur Eddington, and took years to be generally accepted. |
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan:
Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with American biophysicist and biochemist Thomas Steitz and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath, for his research into the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called ribosomes. (Ribosomes are tiny particles made up of RNA and proteins that specialize in protein synthesis and are found free or bound to the endoplasmic reticulum within cells.) |
Achievements of Indians in Science & Technology in the modern era |
Prafulla Chandra Ray:
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya:
Jagdish Chandra Bose:
Meghnad Saha:
Satyendra Nath Bose:
Srinivasa Ramanujan:
Vikram Sarabhai:
Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha:
APJ Abdul Kalam:
Dr Koti Harinarayana:
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan:
Anil Kakodkar:
Abhas Mitra:
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar:
Aditi Pant:
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri:
Arvind Bhatnagar:
Arun N. Netravali:
Anna Mani:
Birbal Sahni:
Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar:
Komaravolu Chandrasekharan:
Raja Ramanna:
Ganapathi Thanikaimoni:
Harish-Chandra:
G. N. Ramachandran:
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis:
Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao:
Salim Ali:
Yellapragada Subbarao:
Sam Pitroda:
Suneet Singh Tuli:
Vijay P. Bhatkar:
U.R. Rao:
Subhash Mukhopadhyay:
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao:
Narinder Singh Kapany:
Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai:
Achievements of Indian Scientists in Recent time |
*** The list is just a drop in the ocean of different contributions by Indians in the field of Science and technology. In recent times the development is a contribution of the team rather than individuals and will be covered in the Indigenization of technology ***
Conclusions |
70 videos|815 docs
|
|
Explore Courses for UPSC exam
|