List of Hindus - Scientists / Inventors / Engineers / Doctors

Scientists / Inventors / Engineers / Doctors

Ancient times to 19th century

  • Madhav (8th century A.D.), medical text author and systematizer
  • Abhay Ashtekar, loop quantum gravity researcher
  • Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel Prize winner
  • Anil Kakodkar, nuclear scientist, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
  • Kalpana Chawla, astronaut
  • Sunita Williams, astronaut
  • Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 1930 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
  • R. Chidambaram, Scientific Adviser to Prime Minister; ex-Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
  • Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, palynologist, French Institute of Pondicherry, awarded the Fyson Prize in Natural Science
  • Jagadish Chandra Bose, father of radio science
  • Marti Subrahmanyam, finance expert, professor at NYU
  • C.K. Prahalad, management expert at University of Michigan Business School
  • V.S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist, Director Professor at UC San Diego
  • S.S. Ratnam, pioneer in Singapore in-vitro fertilisation
  • S.R. Ranganathan, devised the five laws of library science
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

Information Technology

  • Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of USB
  • Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail
  • Vinod Dham, designed Intel's Pentium processor
  • Vinod Khosla, Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, venture capitalist & an influential personality in Silicon Valley.
  • N. R. Narayana Murthy, Software engineer & Indian industrialist. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Infosys Technologies Limited.
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