Indian physicists and engineers Ancient India (Pre 300 BCE)
Lagadha , astronomer, author of one of the oldest known treatises on astrology (around late 2nd millennium BCE and early 1st millennium BCE) Baudhayana , mathematician, author of oldest surviving texts of Indian mathematics (around 1st millennium BCE) Jivaka , physician, widely regarded as a model healer in the Eastern world during ancient times (5th century BCE) Sushruta , father of plastic surgery, author of Sushruta Samhita which is one of the most important ancient medical treatise (600–500 BCE) Panini , father of linguistics (600–400 BCE) Charaka , physician (400–300 BCE) Kanada , father of atomic theory (Unclear; 600–200 BCE) Shalihotra , veterinarian (3rd century BCE) Classical period (300 BCE–500 CE)
Pingala , mathematician and linguist (3rd–2nd century BCE) Chanakya , polymath (375–283 BCE) Early medieval period (500–1000 CE)
Varahamihira , astronomer (5th–6th century CE) Vagbhata , physician (6th century CE) Brahmagupta , mathematician and astronomer (598–688 CE) Bhaskara I , mathematician and astronomer (600–680 CE) Haridatta , astronomer (6th century CE) Lalla , astronomer and astrologer (720–790 CE) Madhava-kara , physician (7th–8th century CE) Gautama Siddha , astrologer, astronomer and compiler in Tang Dynasty, introduced 0 and Indian numerals in China (8th century CE) Shankaranarayana , astronomer and astrologist (840–900 CE) Mahavira , mathematician (9th century CE) Halayudha , mathematician (10th century CE) Aryabhata II , mathematician and astronomer (920–1000 CE) Manjula , astronomer (Born 932 CE) Utpala , astronomer (9th–10th CE) Vijayanandi , astronomer (940–1010 CE) Late medieval period (1000–1500 CE)
Sripati , astronomer, astrologer and mathematician (1019–1066 CE) Brahmadeva , mathematician and astronomer (1060–1130 CE) Satananda , astronomer (1068–1099 CE) Bhaskara II , mathematician and astronomer (1114–1185 CE) Suryadeva Yajvan , astronomer and astrologer (1191– at least 1248 CE) Govinda Bhattathiri , astronomer and astrologer (1237–1295 CE) Madhava of Sangamagrama , mathematician and astronomer, founded Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics (1340–1425 CE) Mahendra Suri , astronomer, wrote the Yantraraja, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe (1340–1400 CE) Parameshvara Nambudiri , astronomer (1380–1460 CE) Nilakantha Somayaji , astronomer (1444–1544 CE) Damodara , astronomer (15th century CE) Keshava of Nandigrama , astrologer and astronomer (1496–1507) Early modern period (1500–1800 CE)
Jyesthadeva , astronomer (1500–1575 CE) Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri , mathematician and astronomer (1500–1610 CE) Shankara Variyar , astronomer and mathematician (1500–1560 CE) Achyutha Pisharadi , sanskrit linguist, astronomer, astrologer and mathematician (1550–1621 CE) Nilakantha Daivajna , astronomer and astrologer (6th century CE) Kamalakara , astronomer and mathematician (1616–1700 CE) Puthumana Somayaji , astronomer and mathematician (1660–1740 CE) Jagannatha Samrat , astronomer and mathematician (1652–1744 CE) Sawai Jai Singh , ruler and astronomer, commissioned Jantar Mantar observatory (1688–1743 CE) Sankara Varman , astronomer and mathematician (1774–1839 CE) 19th century CE
Radhanath Sikdar , mathematician, calculated height of Mt. Everest (1813–1870 CE) Gode Venkata Juggarow , astronomer (1817–1856 CE) Pathani Samanta , astronomer (1835–1904 CE) Jagdish Chandra Bose , polymath, father of radio science (1858–1937 CE) Sir M. Visvesvaraya , civil engineer and statesman (1861–1962 CE) Prafulla Chandra Ray , chemist (1861–1944 CE) Shankar Abaji Bhise , invented type setting machine (1867–1935 CE) Indumadhab Mallick , polymath, inventor of icmic cooker (1869–1917 CE) Upendranath Brahmachari , physician (1873–1946 CE) Shiv Ram Kashyap , botanist (1882–1934 CE) Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia , geologist (1883–1969 CE) Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje , scholar and agronomist (1884–1967 CE) M. O. P. Iyengar , botanist and phycologist (1886–1963 CE) Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C. V. Raman) , physicist (1888–1970 CE) Srinivasa Ramanujan , mathematician (1887–1920 CE) Satya Churn Law , naturalist and ornithologist (1888–1984 CE) Sisir Kumar Mitra , radio and atmospheric physicist (1890–1963 CE) Birbal Sahni , paleobotanist (1891–1949 CE) K. R. Ramanathan , physicist and meterologist (1893–1984 CE) K. Ananda Rau , mathematician (1893–1966 CE) Meghnad Saha , astrophysicist (1893–1956 CE) Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis , statistician (1893–1972 CE) Jnan Chandra Ghosh , chemist (1894–1959 CE) Satyendra Nath Bose , theoretical physicist, father of God Particle (1894–1974 CE) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar , colloid chemist (1894–1955 CE) Yellapragada Subbarow , biochemist (1895–1948 CE) Sunder Lal Hora , icthyologist (1896–1955 CE) Salim Ali , ornithologist and naturalist (1896–1987 CE) Janaki Ammal , botanist (1897–1984 CE) K.S. Krishnan , physicist (1898–1961 CE) M. S. Krishnan , geologist (1898–1970 CE) Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao , physicist (1898–1972 CE) Early 20th century CE Kedareswar Banerjee , crystallographer (1900–1975 CE) L. A. Ramdas , physicist and meterologist (1900–1979 CE) Raj Chandra Bose , mathematician (1901-1987 CE) Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai , mathematician (1901–1950 CE) Panchanan Maheshwari , botanist, invented test-tube fertilisation technique of Angiosperms (1904–1966 CE) Kailas Nath Kaul , agronomist (1905–1983 CE) Benjamin Peary Pal , agronomist (1906–1989 CE) Daulat Singh Kothari , physicist (1906–1993 CE) Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar , physicist (1908–1991 CE) Homi Jehangir Bhabha , nuclear physicist, father of Indian nuclear programme (1909–1966 CE) Nautam Bhatt , physicist (1909–2005 CE) P.R. Pisharoty , physicist and meterologist (1909–2002 CE) Suri Bhagavantam , physicist (1909–1989 CE) Subramanyan Chandrasekhar , theoretical physicist, known for Chandrasekhar Limit (1910–1995 CE) Kamala Sohonie , biochemsit (1911–1998 CE) A. S. Rao , physicist (1914–2003 CE) Sambhu Nath De , pathlogist (1915–1985 CE) Asima Chatterjee , chemist (1917–2006 CE) M. S. Balakrishnan , phycologist (1917–1990 CE) Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan , nuclear chemist (1917–2007CE) Anna Mani , physicist and meteorologist (1918–2001 CE) Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya , physicist and mathematician (1918–2010 CE) Shya Chitaley , paleobotanist (1918–2013 CE) V. S. Huzurbazar , statistician (1919–1991 CE) Vikram Sarabhai , physicist and astronomer, established Physical Research Laboratory (1919–1971 CE) K. S. Chandrasekharan , mathematician (1920–2017 CE) Satish Dhawan , aerospace engineer (1920–2002 CE) Siva Brata Bhattacherjee , x-ray crystallographer (1921–2003 CE) Vasudeva Krishnamurthy , algologist (1921–2014 CE) G. N. Ramachandran , biophysicist (1922–2001 CE) Har Gobind Khorana , biochemist (1922–2011 CE) Yelavarthy Nayudamma , chemical engineer (1922–1985 CE) Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri , theoretical physicist (1923–2005 CE) B. V. Sreekantan , astrophysicist (1923–2019 CE) Homi Sethna , nuclear physicist and chemist (1923–2010 CE) Harish-Chandra , mathematician and physicist (1923–1983 CE) Ranjan Roy Daniel , physicist (1923–2005 CE) M. S. Swaminathan , agronomist (1925–2023 CE) Nitya Anand , medicinal chemist (1925–2024 CE) Raja Ramanna , nuclear physicist (1925–2004 CE) Narinder Singh Kapany , physicist (1926–2020 CE) Syed Zahoor Qasim , marine biologist (1926–2015 CE) Samarendra Nath Biswas , theoretical physicist (1926–2005 CE) Yash Pal , space sceintist (1926–2017 CE) Gopinath Kartha , crystallographer (1927–1984 CE) Purnima Sinha , physicist (1927–2015 CE) Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman , metallurgist (1927–2009 CE) Vainu Bappu , astronomer (1927–1982 CE) M. G. K. Menon , physicist (1928–2016 CE) U. Aswathanarayana , geologist (1928–2016 CE) Asoke Nath Mitra , theoretical physicist (1929–2022 CE) Arvind Joshi , computational linguist (1929–2017 CE) Amar Bose , eletrical engineer (1929–2013 CE) Govind Swarup , radioastronomer (1929–2020 CE) Kookal Ramunni Krishnan , physician (1929–1999 CE) Krityunjai Prasad Sinha , theoretical physicist (1929–2023 CE) Shrinivas Kulkarni , mathematician (1930–2012 CE) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , aerospace engineer, missile man of India (1931–2015 CE) E. C. George Sudarshan , theoretical physicist (1931–2018 CE) Manilal Bhaumik , physicist (1931–present CE) Nilamber Pant , space scientist (1931–present CE) P. K. Iyengar , nuclear physicist (1931–2011 CE) Surindar Kumar Trehan , mathematician (1931–2004 CE) C. S. Seshadri , mathematician (1932–2020 CE) Ganeshan Venkataraman , condensed matter physicist (1932–present CE) M. S. Narasimhan , mathematician (1932–2021 CE) Obaid Siddiqi , biologist (1932–2013 CE) Ratan Lal Brahmachary , biochemist (1932–2018 CE) Udipi Ramachandra Rao , space scientist (1932–2017 CE) Daya-Nand Verma , mathematician (1933–2012 CE) Amartya Sen , economist and philosopher (1933–present CE) Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar , meteorologist (1933–2015 CE) Roddam Narasimha , aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist (1934–2020 CE) Ajoy Ghose , mining engineer (1934–2019 CE) C. N. R. Rao , chemist (1934–present CE) Gandikota V. Rao , atmospheric scientist (1934–2004 CE) Subramania Ranganathan , bioorganic chemist (1934–2016 CE) S. Pancharatnam , optical physicist (1934–1969 CE) Animesh Chakravorty , chemist (1935–present CE) Vinod Johri , astrophycisist (1935–2015 CE) E. S. Raja Gopal , condensed matter physicist (1936–2018 CE) Jasbir Singh Bajaj , physician and diabetologist (1936–2019 CE) Rajagopala Chidambaram , nuclear physicist (1936–present CE) Yusuf Hamied , pharmaceutical scientist, (1936–present CE) Dronamraju Krishna Rao , geneticist (1937–2020 CE) B. L. K. Somayajulu , geochemist (1937–2016 CE) Jogesh Pati , theoretical physicist (1937–present CE) Raj Reddy , computer scientist (1937–present CE) Raghavan Narasimhan , mathematician, solved Levi problem for complex manifolds (1937–2015 CE) Subhash Mukhopadhyay , physician (1937–1981 CE) Ganapathi Thanikaimoni , palynologist (1938–1986 CE) A. P. Balachandran , theoretical physicist (1938–present CE) Chanchal Kumar Majumdar , condensed matter physicist (1938–2000 CE) Govindarajan Padmanabhan , biochemist and biotechnologist (1938–present CE) Jayant Narlikar , astrophysicist (1938–present CE) Shipra Guha-Mukherjee , botanist (1938–2007 CE) Ajoy Ghatak , physicist (1939–present CE) Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade , agronomist (1939–2018 CE) V. K. Aatre , electrical engineer (1939–present CE) K. R. K. Easwaran , molecular biophysicist (1939–present CE) M. L. Madan , biotechnologist (1939–present CE) Narasimhaiengar Mukunda , theoretical physicist (1939–present CE) Surendra Nath Pandeya , medicinal and organic chemist (1939–2012 CE) Ramamurti Rajaraman , theoretical physicist (1939–present CE) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan , space scientist (1940–present CE) Sujoy K. Guha , biomedical engineer (1940–present CE) Darshan Ranganathan , organic chemist (1941–2001 CE) M. S. Raghunathan , mathematician (1941–present CE) Nambi Narayanan , aerospace engineer (1941–present CE) T. V. Ramakrishnan , theoretical physicist (1941–present CE) Madhav Gadgil , ecologist (1942–present CE) Patcha Ramachandra Rao , metallurgist (1942–2010 CE) Probir Roy , particle physicist (1942–present CE) Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni , mathematician, known for Kulkarni-Nomizu product (1942–present CE) Shivram Bhoje , nuclear physicist (1942–present CE) Subhendu Guha , photovoltaicist (1942–present CE) Sam Pitroda , telecommunication engineer (1942–present CE) Aditi Pant , oceanographer (1943–present CE) G Madhavan Nair , space scientist (1943–present CE) Anil Kakodkar , nuclear physicist (1943–present CE) Raghunath Anant Mashelkar , chemical engineer (1943–present CE) V. Balakrishnan , theoretical physicist (1943–present CE) Abhay Bhushan , computer scientist (1944–present CE) Avinash Kak , computer scientist (1944–present CE) Jagdish Shukla , meterologist (1944–present CE) Naresh Dadhich , theoretical physicist (1944–present CE) Phoolan Prasad , mathematician (1944–present CE) S. A. Hussain , ornitholohist (1944–2009 CE) Tej P Singh , biophysicist (1944–present CE) Vijay Kumar Kapahi , astrophysicist (1944–1999 CE) K. N. Shankara , space scientist (1945–2017 CE) Prem Chand Pandey , planetary scientist (1945–present CE) Subhash Chandra Lakhotia , cytogeneticst (1945–present CE) Ranajit Chakraborty , geneticist (1946–2018 CE) Srikumar Banerjee , metallurgical engineer (1946–2021 CE) Sudipta Sengupta , structual geologist (1946–present CE) Vijay P. Bhatkar , computer scientist (1946–present CE) A. Sivathanu Pillai , aerospace engineer (1947–present CE) Dattatreyudu Nori , radiation oncologist (1947–present CE) Mathukumalli Vidyasagar , control theorist (1947–present CE) Prem Shanker Goel , space scientist (1947–present CE) Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta , condensed matter physicist (1947–present CE) Archana Bhattacharyya , physicist (1948–present CE) K. S. R. Krishna Raju , ornithologist (1948–2002 CE) M. R. S. Rao , biologist (1948–2023 CE) Predhiman Krishan Kaw , plasma physicist (1948–2017 CE) Thirumalachari Ramasami , leather scientist (1948–present CE) Abhay Ashtekar , theoritical physicist (1949–present CE) Jyeshtharaj Joshi , chemist and nuclear physicist (1949–present CE) K. Radhakrishnan , space scientist (1949–present CE) Sulabha K. Kulkarni , nanotechnologist (1949–present CE) V. K. Saraswat , aeronautic engineer (1949–present CE) Lilabati Bhattacharjee , mineralogist and crystallographer (unknown) Ram Chet Chaudhary , agronomist (unknown) Radha Balakrishnan , theoretical physicist (unknown) Thekkethil Kochandy Alex , electrical and aerospace engineer (unknown) Late 20th century CE Gomatam Ravi , quantum physicist (1950–present CE) Jitendra Nath Goswami , astrophysicist (1950–present CE) Kamanio Chattopadhyay , materials engineer (1950–present CE) Sankar K. Pal , computer scientist (1950–present CE) Chitra Mandal , biologist (1951–present CE) Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha , theoretical physicist (1951–present CE) H. R. Krishnamurthy , theoretical physicist (1951–present CE) Himmatrao Bawaskar , physician (1951–present CE) Indrani Bose , theoretical physicist (1951–present CE) Swapan Chattopadhyay , physicist (1951–present CE) Amitava Raychaudhuri , particle physicist (1952–present CE) G. R. Desiraju , structural chemist (1952–present CE) A. S. Kiran Kumar , space scientist (1952–present CE) Bikas Chakrabarti , physicist (1952–present CE) Rohini Godbole , physicist (1952–present CE) Salim Yusuf , physician (1952–present CE) Samir K. Brahmachari , biophysicist (1952–present CE) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , structural biologist (1952–present CE) Vidya Arankalle , virologist (1952–present CE) Amar Gupta , computer scientist (1953–present CE) Ghanshyam Swarup , molecular biologist (1953–present CE) Michael Lobo , genealogist (1953–present CE) S. K. Shivakumar , space communications engineer (1953–2019 CE) Shobhona Sharma , molecular biologist (1953–present CE) Veena Parnaik , cell biologist (1953–present CE) Biman Bagchi , chemist (1954–present CE) C. K. Raju , polymath (1954–present CE) Ravindra Kumar Sinha , biologist (1954–present CE) Harsh Vardhan Batra , biotechnologist (1955–present CE) Ashoke Sen , theoretical physicist (1956–present CE) Gaiti Hasan , molecular biologist (1956–present CE) Narendra Karmarkar , mathematician, developed Karmakar algorithm (1956–present CE) Shrinivas Kulkarni , astronomer (1956–present CE) Sunil Mukhi , theoretical physicist (1956–present CE) Varun Sahni , theoretical physicist (1956–present CE) K. Sivan , aerospace engineer (1957–present CE) Thanu Padmanabhan , theoretical physicist (1957–2021 CE) Mylswamy Annadurai , aerospace engineer (1958–present CE) Nagendra Kumar Singh , agronomist (1958–present CE) Pamposh Bhat , environmentalist (1958–present CE) Santanu Bhattacharya , chemical biologist (1958–present CE) Vinod K. Singh , chemist (1959–present CE) Debasish Ghose , robotics engineer (1960–present CE) Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , high-energy physicist (1960–present CE) Madan Rao , condensed matter and biological physicist (1960–present CE) Ram Rajasekharan , biologist (1960–present CE) K. Sridhar , physicist (1961–present CE) Lov Grover , computer scientist (1961–present CE) P. Kunhikrishnan , space scientist (1961–present CE) Tapan Misra , digital hardware engineer (1961–present CE) Kalpana Chawla , astronaut and aerospace engineer (1962–2003 CE) Rajeev Motwani , theoretical computer scientist (1962–2009 CE) Shekhar C. Mande , computational biologist (1962–present CE) Uddhab Bharali , inventor, invented pomegrante de-seeder (1962–present CE) Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava , bioinformatician (1963–present CE) Sandip Trivedi , theoretical physicist (1963–present CE) VA Shiva Ayyadurai , systems biologist (1963–present CE) S. Somanath , aerospace engineer (1963–present CE) Upinder Singh Bhalla , computational neuroscientist (1963–present CE) Charusita Chakravarty , chemist (1964–2016 CE) Abhik Ghosh , inorganic chemist (1964–present CE) Usha Kulshreshtha , theoretical physicist (1964–present CE) Manjula Reddy , bacterial geneticist (1965–present CE) Arun K. Pati , quantum physicist (1966–present CE) Manindra Agrawal , computer scientist (1966–present CE) G. K. Ananthasuresh , quantum physicist (1967–present CE) Giridhar Madras , mechanical engineer (1967–present CE) Rajesh Gopakumar , theoretical physicist (1967–present CE) Shubha Tole , neuroscientist (1967–present CE) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay , computational biologist (1968–present CE) Ramesh Raskar , computer scientist (1970–present CE) Hari Balakrishnan , computer scientist (1971–present CE) G. Naresh Patwari , chemist (1972–present CE) Shiraz Minwalla , theoretical physicist (1972–present CE) Subramanian Anantha Ramakrishna , optical and condensed matter physicist (1972–present CE) Aloke Paul , chemical engineer (1973–present CE) Ambarish Ghosh , materials scientist (1973–present CE) Kewal Krishan , forensic anthropologist (1973–present CE) Rajeev Kumar Varshney , agronomist and geneticist (1973–present CE) Manjul Bhargava , mathematician (1974–present CE) Yamuna Krishnan , organic chemist (1974–present CE) Ritu Karidhal , aerospace engineer (1975–present CE) Nishith Gupta , molecular biologist (1977–present CE) Pragya D. Yadav , virologist (1978–present CE) Akhilesh K. Gaharwar , biomedical engineer (1982–present CE) Pranav Mistry , computer scientist, invented Samsung's SixthSense (1984–present CE) Tathagat Avatar Tulsi , physicist (1987–present CE) Praveen Kumar Gorakavi , polymath (1989–present CE) Alex James , computer scientist (unknown) Bola Vithal Shetty , chemist (unknown) Dipan Ghosh , theoretical physicist (unknown) Gursaran Talwar , phyisician (unknown) Kavita Shah , biotechnologist (unknown) K. N. Ganeshaiah , agronomist (unknown) Anita Mahadevan-Jansen , biomedical engineer (unkown) Mirza Faizan , aerospace scientist (unknown) Maneesha S. Inamdar , biologist (unknown) Nandini Harinath , aerospace engineer (unknown) Padmanabhan Balaram , biochemist (unknown) Rashna Bhandari , biologist (unknown) Rama Govindarajan , fluid dynamicist (unknown) Rohini Balakrishnan , bioacusticist (unknown) Seema Bhatnagar , synthetic chemist (unknown) Shoba Sivasankar , geneticist (unknown) Siva S. Banda , aerospace engineer (unknown) Sivaram Murthy , computer scientist (unknown) Subhash Kak , computer scientist (unknown) Subrata Roy , fluid dynamicist (unknown) Somak Raychaudhury , astrophysicist (unknown) Sudhir Kumar Vempati , high-energy physicist (unknown) Suchitra Sebastian , condensed matter physicist (unknown) Ujjwal Maulik , computer scientist (unknown) Uma Ramakrishnan , molecular ecologist (unknown) Umesh Waghmare , physicist (unknown) See also References
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