Category Scientist & Invensions

Anil Kumar Gain

Anil Kumar Gain (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Ronald Fisher. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Henry Ellis Daniels, who was the then President of the Royal Statistical Society. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the famous Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Gain was the president of the statistics section of the Indian Science Congress Association, as well as the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He later went on to found Vidyasagar University, naming it after the famous social reformer of the Bengali renaissance, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Fields

  • Mathematics and Statistics

Institutions

  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Calcutta
  • Presidency College, Calcutta
  • Indian Statistical Institute
  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Awards

  • RSS
  • FCPS

To know more about Anil Kumar Click Anil Kumar

Yellapragada Subbarow

Yellapragada Subbarow (12 January 1895 – 8 August 1948) was an Indian biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate as an energy source in the cell, and developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer. Most of his career was spent in the United States. Despite his isolation of ATP, Subbarow did not gain tenure at Harvard though he would lead some of America’s most important medical research during World War II. He is also credited with the first synthesis of the chemical compounds folic acid and methotrexate. Subbarow died in the United States.

Known for

  • Discovering the role of phosphocreatine and adenosine triphosphate in muscular activity;
  • synthesis of folic acid;
  • synthesis of methotrexate;
  • discovery of diethylcarbamazine

Fields

  • Biochemistry

Institutions

  • Lederle Laboratories, a division of American Cyanamid (Acquired by Wyeth in 1994, now Pfizer)

To read more Click Yellapragada Subbarow

Samir Kumar Brahmachari

Samir Kumar Brahmachari (born 1 January 1952) is an Indian biophysicist and Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Former Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India. He is the Founder Director of Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi and the Chief Mentor of Open Source for Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project. He is the recipient of J.C Bose Fellowship Award, DST (2012).

Fields

  • Functional Genomics;Structural & Computational Biology

Known for

  • Open Source Drug Discovery for Affordable
  • Healthcare

For more details Click Samir Kumar Brahmachari

Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose, FRS (Bengali: Sôtyendronath Bosu; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian physicist from Bengal specialising in theoretical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India.

Known for

  • Bose–Einstein condensate
  • Bose–Einstein statistics
  • Bose–Einstein distribution
  • Bose–Einstein correlations
  • Bose gas
  • Boson
  • Ideal Bose Equation of State
  • Photon gas

Awards

  • Padma Vibhushan
  • Fellow of the Royal Society

Fields

  • Physics

To know more Click Satyendra Nath Bose 

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. FREng, FIChemE (born on 1st January, 1943) is an Indian chemical engineer and a former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India.

Awards

  • Padma Vibhushan
  • Padma Bhushan
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
  • G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research
  • FREng

Fields

  • Chemical Engineering

Known for

  • Intellectual Property Rights; R&D; Innovation

For more details about Raghunath Anant Mashelkar