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Important discoveries by Indian scientists.

NAME OF THE SCIENTISTDISCOVERY / INVENTION
Satyendra Nath Bose Collaborating with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate
Meghnad Saha Developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars
Prafulla Chandra RayDiscovered a new compound, Mercurous Nitrite
Salim Ali
Invented the systematic bird survey in India and abroad
Homi J Bhabha
Designed nuclear fuel cycle that used thorium instead of uranium
Jagadish Chandra Bose Invented the Crescograph to measure growth in plants. Also proved plants have life.
RamanujanFindings on Infinite series for pi, analysis, number theory, continued fractions
C.V. RamanDiscovered the Raman Effect in Physics
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Discovered Mahalanobis distance and formulated India’s strategy for industrialization in the Second Five-Year Plan
Subhramanyan ChandrashekharChandrasekhar limit which is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star
Birbal SahniStudied ancient fossils and discovered petrified wood of Homoxylon rajmahalense
Raj ReddyAnchored the development of the AI system
SS Abhyankar Contributed to the field of algebraic geometry
Har Gobind Khurrana Discovered how nucleotides in nucleic acids control the synthesis of protein
Dr. Vikram Ambalal SarabhaiThe father of the Indian space program (ISRO).
M.VisvesvarayaInvented the block system, designed and patented Floodgates.
Janaki AmmalPlants scientists (botanist) that produced hybrid brinjal varieties.
Venkatraman RadhakrishnanGiant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
M.S. SwaminathanDeveloped high-yielding varieties (HYV) of wheat.

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