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Homi J. Bhabha
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (Homi J Bhabha), (30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who played a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy…
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Indian Scientists
From Aryabhata and Sushruta to C. V. Raman and Homi Bhabha, the minds behind India's contributions to science.
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C. V. Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C,V,Raman) (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the…
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Pingala
Pingala is the traditional name of the author of the Chandahsastra (also Chandahsutra), the earliest known Sanskrit treatise on prosody. Nothing is known about Pingala himself. In…
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Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna was an Indian metallurgist and alchemist, born at Fort Daihak near Somnath in Gujarat in 931. He wrote the treatise Rasaratnakara that deals with preparations of rasa…
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Chanakya
Chanakya c. 350–283 BCE) was an adviser to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupt (c. 340–293 BCE), and was the chief architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the…
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Brahmagupta
Brahmagupta (598–668) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who had written numerous important works on mathematics and astronomy. His most well known being the…
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Brahmadeva
Brahmadeva (1060–1130) was an Indian mathematician. He was the author of Karanaprakasa, which is a commentary on the Aryabhatiya by Aryabhata. Its contents deal partly with…
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Bhaskara I
Bhaskara (c. 600 – c. 680)commonly called Bhaskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th century mathematician Bhaskara II) was a 7th century Indian mathematician, who was apparently…
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Baudhayana
Baudhayana, (fl. c. 800 BCE)[1] was an Indian mathematician, who was most likely also a priest. He is noted as the author of the earliest Sulba Sutra—appendices to the Vedas…
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Aryabhata
Aryabhata (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are…
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Sushruta
Sushruta (Around 800 BC) was an ancient Indian surgeon and is the author of the book Sushruta Samhita, in which he describes over 300 surgical procedures and 120 surgical…
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Charaka
Charaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in…