- Abdul Kalam - Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam – 'a 200 per cent Indian', as his colleagues call him, has made India proud in myriad ways.
- Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in the small town of Ulm, in southern Germany, near the source of Europe's longest river, the Danube. His parents, Hermann and Pauline were Jewish.
- Alessandro Volta - Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was among the leading scientists during the late 1700s. His works were of the utmost importance to mankind and all his inventions speak of his genius. Having dropped out of studies, he pursued the research of electricity, and achieved great success.
- Alexander Fleming - The discovery of Penicillin is one of the greatest of medical discoveries of the 20th century and certainly one of the greatest discoveries of all time.
- Alfred Nobel - Better known as inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, was a poet as well as the archetype international capitalist.
- Blaise Pascal - Blaise Pascal, the French scientist was one of the most reputed Mathematician and Physicist of his time. Being a profound thinker, well ahead of his time, he also contributed immensely to the Christian literature.
- C. V. Raman - C.V. Raman, the great Indian physicist, was the first Asian Scientist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his work on the Scattering of Light and Raman Effect. He also carried out research in acoustics, optics, crystallographic dynamics, colors and their perception.
- Charles Babbage - British mathematician, designer and inventor of the world’s first mechanical computing machine, the forerunner of the modern electronic computer, is considered as one of the key figures of the golden era of British history.
- Charles Darwin - Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist. It was his innate curiosity, initiative originality and the ruthless application of honesty that made him such a great researcher. He was an example that extensive research is something much more than feats of logic or memory.
- Enrico Fermi - On September 29, 1901, the world was blessed with a prodigy, who by his unparalleled works carved a niche for himself in the realm of Physics.
- Ernest Rutherford - One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, Ernest Rutherford was the Father of modern atomic physics and precursor of the nuclear age.
- Francis Galton - Sir Francis Galton was a British explorer, born in England. He is best known for his studies on heredity and intelligence.
- Galileo - Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564, 21 years after the death of Copernicus and three days before the death of Michelangelo.
- Graham Bell - How often do you use the telephone? Every day, two or three times a day or almost daylong? What would it be like if there was no phone? Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell, who invented one of the most significant domestic device of today – the Telephone.
- Guglielmo Marconi - The air is full of promises of miracles", a man wrote in London. Soon after, three dots and the letter S sputtered across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Isaac Newton - Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1642, on the auspicious day of Christmas, in the Manor House at the Hamlet of Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire.
- J. C. Bose - The traditional belief of the Orient, that plants have life is a well- documented fact, professed by rishis of ancient India. It was for Jagdish Chandra Bose, an eminent Indian scientist, to prove that plants too have life and feelings like any other living being.
- James Watt - If the question were asked : "Who is the most famous British engineer ?", the first answer that would immediately come to one's lips would be James Watt.
- Jonas Salk - Jonas Salk, the great physician and medical researcher was the first to develop a safe and effective vaccine for poliomyelitis more commonly known as polio.
- Lamarck - The man who coined the word biologie (biology) and one of its pioneers was French scientist Lamarck.
- Lavoisier - Lavoisier Antoine Laurent, a French chemist and physicist was born in Paris in 1743. He belonged to a family of lawyers.
- Leeuwenhoek - We are humans. We have minds, books and records to develop our knowledge and intellect. What we have discovered so far is no mean achievement. Our aim is similar to Tennyson’s Ulysses :
- Louis Pasteur - Louis Pasteur, the French chemist, is known as the founder of Microbiological Sciences. A noteworthy figure in the field of science, he formulated the process of fermentation - a knowledge of the chief maladies which have scourged man and annimals - a knowledge of the measure by which either the body may be protected against these diseases, or the poison neutralised when once within the body.
- Madame Curie - Dr. Marie Curie is known to the world as the inventor of radioactive metals i.e. Radium & Polonium. Originally of Polish descent, she settled down in France. She was of that rare breed of people who shied away from the limelight.
- Michael Faraday - Faraday, an individual admired and adored by the masses, was among the great scientific minds of the 19th century.
- Nicolaus Coppernicus - Nicolaus Copernicus, born in Thorn, Poland, was a cleric, a canon lawyer, and a physician; by inclination. In spite of poor eyesight, he was an established portrait painter, an astute astronomer, a great mathematician, and finally destined to become, one of the seminal figures in the history of science through his heliocentric doctrine
- Pierre Curie - "One may wonder whether it is in man’s interest to know nature’s secrets, if he is ready to benefit from them or if this knowledge will harm him…I am among those who believe that humanity will draw more benefit than harm from these discoveries."
- Robert Goddard - It was his flight to fancy that laid the foundation for the first flight into space. Robert Hutchings Goddard, the Father of Modern Rocketry, was an American expert of rocket research who is recognized as a remarkable experimenter as well as an engineering genius.
- Robert Hooke - Enthusiasm leads a man towards the peak of creativity. Be it an artist like Leonardo da Vinci or a scientist like Robert John Hooke.
- Robert Koch - Our quest for knowledge has led us to two frontiers – space, and the world of microscopic life. Dr. Robert Koch, the German Bacteriologist, chose the latter and set it up on its feet, turning it into an exact science.
- Stephen Hawking - Mankind since time immemorial has tried to answer the question about the universe. This quest for knowledge about the origins of the universe has remained unanswered.
- Thomas Alva Edison - FEB. 11, 1847 Thomas Edison was born on 11th February in Milan, Ohio.
SPRING-SUMMER, 1863 After completion of study, he started job as a telegrapher for 1863 the Grand Trunk railroad at Stratford Junction, Ontario.
- Thomas Henry Huxley - "I will leave my mark somewhere, and it shall be clear and distinct."Educated in the background of Church dominance over science and education, Professor Huxley was an epoch of the 19th century.
- Werner Heisenberg - Werner Karl Heisenberg was one of those rare geniuses who dared to overturn all the opinions sacredly held hitherto, and whose influence is felt much beyond their narrow field of work.
- Wilhelm Roentgen - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen[ 1845 – 1923 ]
The year 1895 witnessed a turning point in experimental physics as Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered ‘X–rays’.
- William Harvey - In the late 16th century, when the world was getting away from the medieval thoughts and practices, William Harvey persuaded the study of human anatomy and achieved a milestone in the field of science.
- William Thomson - The above lines aptly describe Sir William Thomson. A Scottish engineer, mathematician and physicist, all rolled into one, had one of the keenest and most versatile minds that answered every call of science.
- Wright Brothers - APRIL 16, 1867
Wilbur Wright the eldest of the ‘Wright Brothers’ was born in a small farm near Milville Indiana. He was the third son of the family. His father’s name was Bishop Milton Wright. His mother’s name was Susan Catherine.
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