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List of Indian scientists

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This is a list of noted scientists from India.

Name Field Known for Most noted award/fellowship Year of death Picture
A.P.J Abdul Kalam Aerospace engineering President of India Bharat Ratna 2015
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C.V Raman)[1] Physics Light scattering Nobel Prize in Physics 1970
Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematics Contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions Fellow of the Royal Society 1920
Satyendra Nath Bose Mathematics, physics Bose–Einstein condensate and Bose–Einstein statistics 1974
M. S. Swaminathan Genetics High-yielding varieties of wheat and rice in India 2023
Raj Reddy Computer science Early pioneers of artificial intelligence Turing Award
Har Gobind Khorana Biochemistry First to show the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared) 2011
K. S. Chandrasekharan Mathematics 2017
Hari Om Srivastava Broadcasting Socio-economic development by use of broadcasting in India Knights Hospitaller
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References

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  1. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 Sir Venkata Raman Archived 2013-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, Official Nobel Prize biography, nobelprize.org