Satyendranath Bose was born on 1January 1894 in Calcutta to Surendranath and Amodini Devi.Satyendranath began his education at an elementary school in Calcutta before entering the Hindu School in 1907. It was here that his interest in mathematics and science began.He began his studies at Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1909 where he had a brilliant […]
Prof. Dhawan was born on 25th September, 1920 in a distinguished family. His father was a high-ranking civil servant of undivided India and retired as the Resettlement Commissioner of Government of India at the time of partition.He graduated from the University of Punjab with an unusual combination of degrees: BA in Mathematics and Physics, MA
On May 18, 1974, India tested its first nuclear device in the Pokhran desert in Rajasthan. The credit for this achievement goes to Raja Ramanna and his colleagues, as also to Bhabha, who laid the foundation for the country’s nuclear programme. This was, however, not Ramanna’s first success. He was also the man mainly responsible
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (31 March 1811–16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He perfected the burner that was named after him, invented by British physicist Michael Faraday, and worked on emission spectroscopy of heated elements.After attending school in Holzminden, he studied chemistry at the University of Goettingen. He received his doctorate at 19 and then,
Robert Hooke (18th July 1635—3rd March 1703) was a Fellow of the Royal Society, Architect, Surveyor, Astro-nomer, Scientist, Inventor, Musician, Mechanic, Professor of Geometry, Philosopher, Linguist.Hooke was involved in a wide variety of scientific endeavours, he was a member of a circle of the greatest scientists of the seventeenth century, but despite a list of
Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1692) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. Although his research and personal philosophy clearly has its roots in the alchemical tradition, he is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist. Among his works The Sceptical Chymist is seen as
Pythagoras, one of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, lived from 570 to 490 BC. He spent his early years on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey. At the age of forty, however, he emigrated to the city of Croton in southern Italy and most of his philosophical activity
On November 20, 1602, Otto Gericke was born as son of a patrician family.Otto Gericke attended the city school to learn read and write, and he was tought additional private lessons. At the age of 15, he entered the Faculty of Arts at the Leipzig University. At the age of 16, his parents moved him
Meghnad Saha was born in Seoratali, Dacca district, now in Bangladesh, on October 6, 1893. His father was a petty grocer who barely managed to keep his large family from starvation. He wanted his fifth child, Meghnad, to start earning for the family from childhood. But on the advice of local teachers, who found him
Born on Feb. 19, 1473, in Thorn (Torun), Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus was destined to become, through the publication of his heliocentric theory 70 years later, one of the seminal figures in the history of scientific thought. Copernicus study liberal arts at Bologna (1496-1501), medicine at Padua, and law at the University of Ferrara, from which
The English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday, (Sept. 22, 1791- Aug. 25, 1867) is known for his pioneering experiments in electricity and magnetism. Many consider him the greatest experimentalist ever lived. Several concepts that he derived directly from experi-ments, such as lines of magnetic force, have become common ideas in modern physics.Faraday was born at
Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organisation and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia,
Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist, chemist and humanist. He is known most famously for his demonstrations supporting the germ theory of disease and his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies. However, he also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the assymetry
Robert Oppenheimer’s name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.His early education was at the Ethical Culture School in New York. He took math and science classes, but also enthusiastically studied Greek,Latin, French, and German. He
Joseph Priestley was born near Leeds in England on March 13, 1733. Priestley had no real interest in the sciences. In fact, he never took a single formal science course during his entire lifetime. This all changed when he met the one and only Benjamin Franklin, one of the most prominent scientists of the day, while on