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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (FRS)
- Sir C.V Raman is best known for his work in the field of light scattering.
- He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.
- He was the first Asian and the first non-white person to receive any Nobel Prize in the sciences.
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Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha (FRS)
- Dr.Homi J.Bhabha was an Indian physicist who is often considered the father of the Indian Nuclear Program.
- Bhabha wrote to Prime Minister arguing that “within the next couple of decades, atomic energy would play an important part in the economy and the industry of countries ”
- Bhabha founded a nuclear research center at Trombay which was later renamed the BARC
- Central Intelligence Agency was involved in order to paralyse India's nuclear program,the CIA was responsible for assassinating Homi Bhabha
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Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
- Dr. Vikram Sarabhai is well known as a founder of ISRO and involved in some major institution building efforts in India like the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad.
- He conducted India's first space program
- Dr Sarabhai started a project that would lead to the building of India’s first artificial satellite orbiting Earth. Launched in July 1976 named Aryabhata.
- Chandrayaan 2 lander is named after Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
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Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of India
- He was also there in India's first space program
- He is known as the missile man of India
- Kalam sir is one of the most respectable person in India.He was honored with India's the highest civilian Award "Bharat Ratna"
- Everyone is India respects him and he is one of the most favorite scientist in India
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Srinivasa Ramanujan (FRS)
- Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics but he made substantial contributions to mathematics
- Ramanujan was fascinated with numbers and made striking contributions to a branch of mathematics .
- 1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan Number, is the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum of two different cubes in two different ways
- December 22 is celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India in honour of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Har Gobind Khorana
- Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist
- He got the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology for research in interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
- He also proved that the nucleotide code is always transmitted to the cell in groups of three, called codons
- Khorana is also known for the discovery of visual pigment called rhodopsin.
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Satyendra Nath Bose (FRS)
- Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian mathematician and physicist specialising in theoretical physics.
- He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, collaborating with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate
- The 5th State of matter is called the "Bose-Einstein condensate"
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National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928.
For his discovery, Sir C.V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930
"Treat me right and you will see the light…Treat me wrong and you will be gone!!"
Happy Science Day!!!
C.V RAMAN
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These scientists helped India to grow better in Science and technology than other countries.
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