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HYPERLINK "http://www.scoopwhoop.com/world/" FirangiFebruary 19 , 2015

15 Amazing Indian Scientists We All Should Know About

Osien KuumarSW Staff Writer

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India is full of geniuses and innovators who have made us proud. Needless to say, our country's contributions to the field of science are some of the greatest. But here's the thing. Most of these scientists are either not well-known or not talked about enough. The years of hard work that these people have put in is immensely applaudable anddeserves our attention.

If you haven't heard of them, here are 15 lesser-talked about Indian innovators that you must take out time to read about:

1. Yellapragada Subbarow

Even if you don't understand the technicalities, I'm sure you know whatcancer is. ThisIndianbiochemistdiscovered the function ofadenosine triphosphateas an energy source in thecell, and developedmethotrexatefor the treatment ofcancer!Guess who's helping us out, immensely?

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2. Satyendra Nath Bose

He is 'one of those' who actually metAlbert Einstein to formulate a theory related to the gas-like qualities of electromagnetic radiation! Indeed a brilliant mathematician and physicist.

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3. Vinod Dham

He is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium Chip because of his contributions in the development of Pentium Processor for Intel. No wonder Intel is one of the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers!

Source: Economictimes

4. Jagdish Chandra Bose

If you love listening to the radio, you should know the first public demonstration of radio waves for communication was made by Mr Bose in 1895. A true pioneer in communications!

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5. Narinder Singh Kapany

Regarded as an unsung hero byFortune Magazine,his earlier works led to the invention of optic fibers. Thank him for those pretty optic-light lamps at your place!

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6. Prafulla Chandra Ray

Guess who's the founder ofIndia's first pharmaceutical company, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals? Hats off to this amazing chemist and entrepreneur!

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7. S.S. Abhyankar

This mathematician isfamous for his outstanding contributions to algebraic geometry. Now you know who to blame for all the cumbersome algebra problems!

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8. Meghnad Saha

We may not understand thefundasbehind the astrological crap we hear everyday. But this astrophysicist developed the Saha equation which explains chemical and physical conditions in stars. Itis considered as the twelfth most important landmark in the history of astronomy!

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9.Har Gobind Khorana

Two words. Genetic code. He won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his outstanding work in the field and is thefirst person to segregate the DNA parts and chains of nucleotides. But how many of us have heard of him?

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10. Dr Raj Reddy

If you have heard ofartificial intelligence, then you must know the man behind its inception.He is the winner of the Turing Award,accreditedwith Padma Bhushan and a key facultymember of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for more than 40 years.

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11.Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu

How does an electric motor work? Well, because of him! He is referred to as theEdison of Indiaand hasmanufactured the first electric motor in India, in 1937. But that's not all! His other inventions include super-thin shaving blades, a distance adjuster for film cameras, a fruit juice extractor, a tamper-proof vote-recording machine and a kerosene-run fan!

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12.Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

So he graduated with a degree in physics before reaching his twentieth birthday, is a child prodigy and The Chandrasekhar Limit is named after him! Insane right?For the bulk of work that he's done, he also won a Nobel Prize.

Source: Physik

13.G.N.Ramachandran

Along with his major contributions in Physics and Biology, he discovered the ways to describe the 3-D structure of proteins well before the same was done with crystallography. Amazing, right?He also createdtheRamachandran plotfor understandingpeptidestructure and was the first to propose a triple-helical model for the structure ofcollagen.

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14. Ashoke Sen

A legendary physicist of histime, he was among the first recipients of theFundamental Physics Prize"for opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory". Currently, aprofessor at theHarish-Chandra Research Institute,Allahabad, he isalso the Morningstar Visiting Professor atMIT.

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15.Aneesur Rahman

Have you heard about the Aneesur Rahman Prize for computational physics? This man has an award in his honour for being the father of molecular dynamics, adiscipline of physics that utilizes computers to simulate microscopic behavior of physical systems. His study of liquid argon in 1964 started an entire field of study!

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Special mention: Hemendra Nath Chatterjee

We weren't aware of theDiarrhoeatreatment until he showed us how. Let's remember him astheBengali scientist who was the first to formulate and demonstrate the effectiveness of Orally Rehydrated Saline fordiarrhoeamanagement.

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