Indian Academy of Sciences

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Indian Academy of Sciences

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

"The Academy, founded in 1934, aims at promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science in pure and applied branches. Major activities include publication of scientific journals and special volumes, organizing meetings of the Fellowship and discussions on important topics, recognizing scientific talent, improvement of science education and taking up other issues of concern to the scientific community."

Official Website:
http://www.ias.ac.in/

Location:
Bangalore, India

Founding Date:
1934

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Nicolaas Bloembergen Physicist 11-Mar-1920 Nonlinear optics

Max Born Physicist 11-Dec-1882 5-Jan-1970 Pioneer of quantum mechanics

J. C. Bose Botanist 30-Nov-1858 23-Nov-1937 Plant physiology

Percy Williams Bridgman Physicist 21-Apr-1882 20-Aug-1961 High-pressure physics

Herbert C. Brown Chemist 22-May-1912 19-Dec-2004 Discovered organoboranes

Harvey Cushing Doctor 8-Apr-1869 7-Oct-1939 Cushing's Syndrome

Paul Dirac Physicist 8-Aug-1902 20-Oct-1984 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics

Murray Gell-Mann Physicist 15-Sep-1929 Quarks and strangeness

Jacques-Salomon Hadamard Mathematician 8-Dec-1865 17-Oct-1963 Prime number theorem

Gerhard Herzberg Physicist 25-Dec-1904 3-Mar-1999 Molecular spectroscopy

Antony Hewish Astronomer 11-May-1924 Co-Discoverer of pulsars

Jaroslav Heyrovsky Chemist 20-Dec-1890 27-Mar-1967 Polarography

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Chemist 12-May-1910 29-Jul-1994 Determined structure of Vitamin B12

Pyotr Kapitsa Physicist 8-Jul-1894 8-Apr-1984 Discovered superfluidity

Paul Karrer Chemist 21-Apr-1889 18-Jun-1971 Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K

Jean-Marie Lehn Chemist 30-Sep-1939 Synthesis of molecules

Robert S. Mulliken Chemist 7-Jun-1896 31-Oct-1986 Molecular orbital theory

Ilya Prigogine Chemist 25-Jan-1917 28-May-2003 Theory of dissipative structures

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Scientist 1952 Ribosomes

C. N. R. Rao Chemist 30-Jun-1934 Chemistry of superconductivity

Nikolay Semyonov Chemist 15-Apr-1896 25-Sep-1986 Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics

The Svedberg Chemist 30-Aug-1884 25-Feb-1971 Inventor of the ultracentrifuge

Robert B. Woodward Chemist 10-Apr-1917 8-Jul-1979 Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.

Hideki Yukawa Physicist 23-Jan-1907 8-Sep-1981 Predicted existence of mesons

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