Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. He was the second Indian to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. Ramanujan was an untutored genius who produced mathematics of extraordinary quality. He made substantial contributions to...

Max Planck, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century, is widely known as the originator of the quantum theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for the quantum theory of radiation, which revolutionized the understanding of the subatomic...

Louis Pasteur, one of the giants of modern science, was a French chemist and microbiologist. Along with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch, he is the main founder of bacteriology and is also known as “the father of microbiology". His legacy is felt every day in the modern...

He sees in Nature's laws a code divine, A living Presence he must first adore, Ere he the sacred mysteries explore, Where Cosmos is his temple, Earth his shrine. Among great scientists with profound religious convictions, Michael Faraday – the famous British physicist...

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918), the German mathematician is best known as the founder of set theory. His marvelous work on transfinite numbers sparked a profound revolution in mathematical and philosophical thought. Georg Cantor was born on March 3,...

Robert Boyle (1626–1691), the ‘father of modern chemistry’, was a prominent scientist of the 17th century, from Ireland. He devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of nature and its lawmaker. In the words of Gilbert Burnet, “Boyle, like several other scientists of...

Erwin Schrödinger, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, is widely known for the wave equation and the Schrödinger's cat paradox. His contribution in various fields of physics include: statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, physics of dielectrics, color theory,...

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931 - 2015), an eminent scientist, is well known as a visionary for India 2020. His rich personality and manifold skills as a scientist, philosopher, leader and wonderful teacher are an inspiration for millions of young minds. He is also...

Leonhard Euler, a most prolific mathematician born in 1707 in Switzerland, is considered one of the founders of pure mathematics and analysis. He made significant contributions to nearly every branch of mathematics – geometry, calculus, trigonometry, algebra, number...

Charles H. Townes was a Nobel Laureate and one of the most renowned physicists of the 20th century. He made unparalleled contributions in the field of science through his investigations into the properties of microwaves, which resulted in two major discoveries: the...

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), one of the foremost mathematician of all time, was called ‘the Princeps mathematicorum’, meaning ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’. He made profound contributions to almost every area of mathematics and mathematical physics such as...