Science Stories about Scientists, Researches, Equations, etc.
Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal is considered a pioneer in Botany who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Kakkat Janaki Ammal was one of the first women to receive a PhD from the University of Michigan. In the 1930s, most Indian women didn’t make it past high school. But Janaki didn’t just obtain a PhD …
Daulat Singh Kothari was an eminent Indian scientist and great educationist. He is highly appreciated for his contributions to the entire spectrum of Indian education from elementary level to University level. He has a important role in forming many organizations such as University Grants Commission (UGC) Early Life Daulat Singh Kothari was born on 6th July, …
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Anna Mani (Anna Modayil Mani) was an Indian physicist and a distinguished meteorologist. She was one of India’s pioneering women scientists. Mani was the former Deputy Director-General of the Indian Meteorological Department and further served as a visiting professor at the Raman Research Institute. She served by making several contributions in the field of solar …
G.D. Naidu or Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, fondly remembered as “Edison of India” and “The Wealth Creator of Coimbatore“, is credited for initiating the industrial revolution in the country. He had only primary education but excelled as a versatile genius. He was an Indian Inventor and Engineer. During his lifetime, he worked on several inventions in …
Padma Bhushan Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist and is often considered as the ‘father of the Indian nuclear program’. Early Life Bhabha was born on 30th October 1909 into a very wealthy and polished Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai). He was the son of Jehangir Hormusji Bhabha, a well known Parsi …
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Professor Birbal Sahni FRS was an Indian paleobotanist, a branch of botany that deals with the biological reconstruction of past environments and identification of plants that remain from geological contexts. He was a scholar and well acclaimed in the field of science all over the world. He made a significant contribution in the field of …
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Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (18 May 1929 – 3 March 2011), was an internationally renowned Radio Astronomer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, where he had been Director from 1972 to 1994. Early Life Radhakrishnan was born on 18 May 1929 in …
Salim Ali is one of the greatest ornithologists and naturalists in India. He worked to protect and document birds and their habitats. He was the first Indian to systematically conduct bird surveys all over India. Ali popularized ornithology and further developed this field in India. Early life Before being India’s Birdman he was Sálim Moizuddin …
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861 – 1944), regarded as the Father of Indian Chemical Science was an eminent Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern Indian research school in chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured his life and work with the first-ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe. He was …
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Vikram Sarabhai is an Indian physicist and astronomer. He spearheaded and helped start space research in India. He is therefore internationally known as the Father of the Indian Space Program. Sarabhai is also credited for developing nuclear power in India. Early Life Vikram Sarabhai was born on August 12, 1919, into the prominent Sarabhai family …
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Sir Isaac Newton, described as a natural philosopher in his days, was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Newton is one of the most famous scientists till date (perhaps contended by Einstein). His work changed science, physics and the entire world with it. Thus, he is also regarded as the father of physics. Newton is …
Meghnad Saha, an Indian astrophysicist, is widely known for his eponymous Saha ionisation equation. His seminal work resulting in the thermal ionisation equation (Saha ionisation equation) has ushered in a new epoch of astrophysics. His equation is applied to interpreting the stellar (relating to a star) spectra. This spectrum is characteristic of the chemical composition …
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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist held in much reverence and awe among both the scientific community and the public alike. This was a result of his charismatic personality and his humorous way of life. He is known in the scientific community for his work in the development of quantum electrodynamics. This work won …
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The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing — John KeatsLines that influenced the title of ‘Silent Spring’ Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, author and conservationist, has been attributed to spearheading the global environmental protection movement. She is known particularly for her book ‘Silent Spring’. This book brought in a wave …
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I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars; … And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light … The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. …
Ronald Vale is a well-known American cell biologist and a biochemist, known for his work on motor proteins, in particular kinesin and dynein. He is currently a professor at the Department of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco. He has also been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1995. In …
Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate. Bose was born on 1 January 1894 in Calcutta …
Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who is the only person to be awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. In 1958, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin”. In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize “for their …
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John Bardeen was an American physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known …
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Frances Elizabeth Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. She is the first woman who won the prestigious Turing Award. Allen was born on August 4, 1932, and she grew up on a farm in Peru, New York. She graduated from The New York State College for Teachers …
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Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on June 5, 1900, and was the oldest son of Bertalan Gabor, director of a mining company, and Adrienne. His life-long love of physics …
Juliana is a professional scientific illustrator and lecturer with a masters degree in scientific illustration from Maastricht University and Zuyd Hogeschool in the Netherlands. Juliana travels around the world giving lectures about the importance of illustration in scientific papers and public outreach. Juliana’s passion is to use illustration to communicate complex scientific ideas to the …
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Shilpi Mandal is an Integrated Masters’ student in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Hyderabad, India. Her research area is an intersection of algebra and number theory. She is a former coordinator of the Junior Science Club at UoH and an active member of a student organization called The Nations’ Rock Beat (NRB). She enjoys …
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Natasha is a geologist, high-temperature isotope geochemist, and 2020 National Geographic Explorer who is researching the composition and evolution of Earth’s mantle lithosphere. Natasha holds a BSc in chemistry and geology, and MSc in geology from The University of Western Australia. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta specializing in using …
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Calley Chateau is a Master’s student at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. Her research is based on Zooplankton. She is a commercial diver and an ambassador for Women in Ocean Science and an NGO called SeaTheBiggerPicture. Her master’s project is to determine different assemblages of zooplankton found along the east coast of South …
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