Dr.C.V.Raman
The genius who won the Nobel Prize for Physics, with simple equipment barely worth RS. 300. He was the first Asian scientist to win the Nobel Prize. He was a man of boundless curiosity and a lively sense of humor. His spirit of inquiry and devotion to science laid the foundations for scientific research in India. And he won honor as a scientist and affection as a teacher and a man.
Homi Bhabha
The architect of Nuclear Science inModern India. His far sightedness, powers of organization, and the encouragement and guidance young scientists received from him these built up an invaluable asset for scientific work in India.He was a painter and worshipped the beauty of Nature. Science and art both enriched his mind and life. He was the ideal personality India needs today.
Dr. J C Bose
The great biologist, who showed those plants, too can feel in their own way. He saved money:he bought a small laboratory and built his equipment; and scientists in Europe and America wondered at his discoveries. A true patriot and a great man.
Vikram Sarabhai
One of the greatest scientists of India. As Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, he guided research of the greatest importance to the country. A born scientist and a beloved teacher.
Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla (1 July 1961 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers who died aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-107 when the shuttle disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is the current President of India. A notable scientist and an engineer, he is often referred to as the Missile Man of India. Kalam has the unique distinction of having received honorary doctorates from at least thirty universities, as also India's three highest civilian honours: the Padma Bhushan in 1981; the Padma Vibhushan in 1990; and the Bharat Ratna in 1997. He has recently refused an honorary doctorate from a University, stating he is satisfied with the ones he has earned with his hard work and determination.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet from India, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose avant-garde works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A celebrated cultural icon of Bengal, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.Tagore's major works included Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World), while his verse, short stories, and novels — many defined by rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation — received worldwide acclaim. Tagore was also a cultural reformer and polymath who modernised Bangla art by rejecting strictures binding it to classical Indian forms. Two songs from his rabindrasangit canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Roy was born in Assam to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother, the women's rights activist Mary Roy, and a Bengali Hindu father, a tea planter by profession. She spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala, and went to school in Corpus Christi. She then studied architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture, where she met her first husband, architect Gerard Da Cunha.M F Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain, first became known as an artist in the late 1940s. In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at Zürich and over the next few years, his work was widely seen in Europe and USA. In 1966, he was awarded the Padma Shree by the Government of India. In the following year, he made his first film, Through the Eyes of a Painter. It was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and won a Golden Bear.
N.R. Narayana Murthy
N.R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and the co-founder of Infosys Technologies. Born into a Kannadiga Brahmin family in Mysore, India on August 20, 1946, he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mysore in 1967 and received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969.He began his career with Patni Computer Systems in Pune. He met his wife Sudha Murty, who was a research associate with Tata in Pune. In 1981, he founded Infosys with six other software professionals. He served as president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies, India from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Murthy is the brother-in-law of serial entrepreneur Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande and the uncle of former NASSCOM Chairman and MphasiS chief Jerry Rao.
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd. In 2004, she became India’s richest woman. She was termed India's Biotech Queen by The Economist and Fortune, and India's mother of invention by New York Times.Some of the major awards won by her are: - • Padma Bhushan (2005) • Honorary Doctorate from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) (2005) • Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Chamber of Commerce (2005) • Honorary Doctorate of Science, from Ballarat University (2004) • The Economic Times Business Woman of the Year Award (2004)
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