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Biography of Meghnad Saha   An eminent Indian scientist and astrophysicist, Meghnad Saha was born on the 6th of October, 1893 in Shaoratoli, a village near Dhaka (in present-day Bangladesh) which was then part of the Bengal Presidency. He developed the Saha Ionization equation, which is one of the basic tools for interpreting the physical and chemical conditions in stars. He also invented an instrument for measuring the pressure and weight of solar rays. Known as the chief architect on river planning in India, the original plan of the Damodar Valley Project was prepared by him. An eminent scientist, he was the founder and editor of the journal Science and Culture. In 1943, the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kolkata was founded in his name. He died on the 16th of February, 1956 in New Delhi.

Biography of Satyendranath Bose   Best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein for the development of the foundation of the Bose-Einstein statistics and his work on quantum mechanics, Satyendranath Bose was an eminent Indian scientist, physicist and mathematician. He was born on the 1st of January, 1894 in Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of London and was also awarded the Padma Vibhushan (the second-highest civilian award in India) by the government of India in 1954. Visva-Parichay, the only book by Rabindranath Tagore on science, was dedicated to him in 1937. The eminent physicist Paul Dirac named a class of particles that followed the bose- einstein statistics as bosons after the name of this eminent scientist. Satyendranath Bose died on the 4th of February, 1974.

  Biography of Prafulla Chandra Ray Regarded as the father of chemical science in India, Prafulla Chandra Ray was born on the 2nd of August, 1861 in Raruli-Katipara village in the Jessore district of the then Bengal Presidency of British India (in present-day Bangladesh). He was the founder of India’s first pharmaceutical company, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, established in 1901 in Kolkata. This eminent Bengali was the author of the book A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of Sixteenth Century. For his work, he was honoured with the first-ever Chemical Landmark Plaque outside Europe by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prafulla Chandra Ray died on the 16th of June, 1944.

Biography of Subhramanyan Chandrashekhar    Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar was an astrophysicist and Indian scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983. He received the Nobel prize for his contribution to the study of physical processes necessary for the structure and evolution of stars. His most famous discovery was that massive stars could collapse under their own gravity to reach infinite densities. These collapsed stars are known as neutron stars or black holes, as we may call them today.

 Indian Scientists and their contributions    today Science become Crucial part of are life and it  is an indispensable part of our lives .Whether it be the small light bulb to big machines everything around us is a result of dynamic scientific inventions, based on unique ideas of bright minds. Behind this groundbreaking scientific  theories, inventions and Discoveries  scientists always play a crucial role and their contribution  means a lot to the society   India has always been scientifically advanced from ancient to contemporary times. Evidence of this can be found in various historic Indian texts and manuscripts. .  Do you know many of these scientific innovations are a curation of Indian scientists? Lets see the Top Indian Scientists and their contributions 1:C.V Raman    Discovered the Raman Effect in Physics   2:Subhramanyan Chandrashekhar     Chandrasekhar limit which is the maximum mass of a stable wh...