List of Indian inventors and discoverers
The list of Indian inventors and explorers is a list of inventors and explorers from India in alphabetical order of the family name.
Initial letter
A.
- Aryabhata : mathematician and astronomer
B.
Satyendranath Bose (around 1925)
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha : physicist; Bhabha dispersion
- Uddhab Bharali : engineer
- Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati
- Ajay Bhatt : computer scientist; Development of the Universal Serial Bus (USB)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose : natural scientist; Crescograph (device for recording the growth of plants)
- Satyendranath Bose : physicist; Bose Einstein statistics (together with Albert Einstein); Bose-Einstein condensate (together with Albert Einstein); the boson was named after him.
- Brahmagupta : astronomer and mathematician
C.
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India / United States): astrophysicist; Nobel Prize in Physics “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes that are important for the structure and evolution of stars”; Chandrasekhar boundary
D.
- Sumit Dagar : developer; Smartphone for the blind
- Vinod Dham : computer scientist and entrepreneur; is considered the "father" of the Pentium processor
G
- Keki Hormusji Gharda : chemist and entrepreneur
- Ardeshir Godrej : Entrepreneur
K
- Narinder Singh Kapany : physicist; is considered the inventor of the fiber optic cable (controversial, see also Manfred Börner , who invented the first optoelectronic fiber optic system in 1966)
- Har Gobind Khorana (India / United States): molecular biologist; Stop codons
- Surinder Kumar : Entrepreneur
L.
- Vangipuram Lakshmikantham : mathematician; made a wealth of contributions to nonlinear analysis
M.
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis : mathematician; Mahalanobis distance
- Vatsyayana Mallanaga : author; Book of Kamasutra
N
- Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu : Engineer
P
- Anadish Pal : inventor and environmentalist
R.
- GN Ramachandran : biophysicist; decisive contribution to the understanding of protein structures through the Ramachandran diagram named after him
- VS Ramachandran : neurologist; Mirror therapy for phantom pain relief
- CV Raman : physicist; Raman scattering
- S. Ramanujan : Mathematician
- SR Ranganathan : mathematician and librarian; Colon classification
S.
- Meghnad Saha : physicist; Saha equation
- Vikram Sarabhai : physicist; "Father" of Indian space travel
- Varahur Srinivasa Satyanarayana : Engineer and Linguist
V
- Varahamihira : astronomer
- Kacee Vasudeva : entrepreneur
- Dilip Venkatachari : entrepreneur
- M. Visvesvaraya : Engineer