List of Indian scientists

The name of the Indian scientists of the ancient and modern times are given below.

• Aryabhata
• Baudhayana
• Bhāskara I
• Brahva
• Brahmagupta
• Charaka
• Halayudha

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Modern Indian scientists

• Anurag chaurasia – a biotechnologist working with the ICAR govt of India,Discovered anti-cancer drug from Piper betle
• Animesh Chakravorty
• Anil Kakodkar
• APJ Abdul Kalam – known as the 'missile man of India', architect of Agni series of nuclear missiles
• Arun Netravali – Chief Scientist and former CEO of Bell Labs.
• Arun Majumdar
• Ashok Gadgil – inventor of the UV-disinfection method
• Ashoke Sen – string theorist
• U. Aswathanarayana
• Birbal Sahni
• CNR Rao
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis – founder of Indian Statistical Institute, known for introducing the concept of Mahalanobis distance
• C. R. Rao – known for Rao–Blackwell theorem, Cramér–Rao bound
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman – physicist who discovered and modelled the Raman effect
• D. Bap Reddy – entomologist
• D. R. Kaprekar – number theorist
• Dr. Jayant Narlikar – astrophysicist whose work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle–Narlikar theory, demonstrated that a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Mach's principle
• Vinod Johri
• G Madhavan Nair
• G. N. Ramachandran
• Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava – bioinformatician
• Ganapathi Thanikaimoni
• Gomatam Ravi - theoretical quantum physicist, one of the pioneers in the field of consciousness studies
• Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran
• Govindarajan Padmanabhan
• Har Gobind Khorana
• Harish Chandra
• Homi Bhabha-atomic physicist
• Jagdish Chandra Bose – a pioneer of radio and microwave optics and inventor of the crescograph
• Jagmohan Lal Razdan – pioneer of radiology in India
• K. Radhakrishnan
• K. R. Ramanathan
• Kailas Nath Kaul – botanist
• Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao
• Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
• Krishna Ella
• Lalji Singh
• M. G. K. Menon
• M. S. Swaminathan
• Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
• Manindra Agrawal – computer scientist, co-developor of the AKS primality testing algorithm
• Manilal Bhaumik – pioneer of laser therapy
• M.A.Padmanabha Rao - reported Bharat radiation, and UV dominant optical radiation emissions from radioisotopes and XRF sources in 2010.
• Man Mohan Sharma
• Meghnad Saha

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