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Biography of Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist. He lived in India till 1945, then moved to the United States of America and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966. He won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for physiology along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. Khorana is considered the founding father of Chemical Biology. Family and Education Khorana was born in a Punjabi Hindu family on 9 January 1922 (estimated). His father was Krishna Devi Khorana and his mother was Ganpat Rai Khorana. His family lived in Raipur, Multan, Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan). His father used to work as a taxation clerk in the British Indian Government. Despite Poverty, his father decided to educate all his five children. As Khorana lived in a very rural area, there is no formal school. So his schooling started under a tree with a group of students and only one teacher. He was very talented from his childhood and attracted the attent...

Biography of Salim Ali, The Birdman of India Salim Moizuddin Ali, popularly known as Salim Ali was an Indian naturalist and ornithologist. He is the first man in India who conducted a methodological study to survey bird characteristics all over the country and even abroad. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan from the Government of India in 1958 and 1976 respectively. Ali is considered the 'Birdman of India'. His autobiography 'The Fall of a Sparrow' is one of the most read autobiographies in India. Family and Education Salim Ali was born on 12 November 1896 at Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India). His father was Moizuddin. He lost his parents at an early age and grew up with his maternal uncle Amiruddin Tyabji. His family was a Sulaimani Bohra Family, a branch of Tayibi Islamism. Salim's schooling was started at Zenana Bible and Medical Mission Girls High School at Girgaum. Then he was moved to St. Xavier...

Vikram Sarabhai, The Father of the Indian Space Program Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian space research scientist and renowned physicist. He is considered the father of the Indian space program. He was the founding chairman of the Indian National Committee for Space Research and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He was also a founder of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A). The Government of India rewarded him with prestigious Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. Family and Education Vikram Sarabhai was born on 12 August 1919 in Ahmedabad, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India). He belongs to the famous 'Sarabhai Family' of India. His father Ambalal Sarabhai was a reputed Industrialist then. His mother was Saraladevi Sarabhai. Sarabhai Family had a great legacy and played an important role in India's independence movement. Sarabhai's schooling took place in Ahmedabad. Then he got admitted to Gujarat College, ...

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was an eminent Indian scientist, biochemist, physicist and botanist. He was the first man to prove plants and metals too have feelings. He was one of the fathers of radio science. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics. Bose was also the father of Bengali Science Fictions. Family and Education Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in a prominent Bengali family in Munshiganj (Vikrampur), Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh) on 30 November 1858. His father was Bhagwan Chandra Bose and his mother was Bama Sundari Bose. Mr Bhagwan was a civil serviceman. He served as a deputy magistrate and assistant commissioner for the British Government. He was also a reputed leader of Brahmo Samaj, created by Raja Rammohan Roy. Bose's schooling started at his home. Then his father admitted him to a vernacular school near his home. That school's environment and cultural practices helped him a lot to build a spirit of liberality, universali...

Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar was an Indian mathematician. He made remarkable contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, continued fractions and discoveries of the properties of the Partition Function. He was beyond his time and era. Early life and Education On December 22, 1887, Ramanujan was born into a Tamil Brahmin family in Erode, Madras Presidency (now in Tamilnadu, India). His father Kuppuswamy Srinivasa Iyengar was a clerk in a Sari shop. His mother, Komalarammal was a housewife and worked as a singer at a local temple. He moved with his mother to her parents' house in Kanchipuram near Madras at the age of only two. Ramanujan was admitted to a local school near his grandparents' house in 1892. But unfortunately, he could not continue his study there. So they had to move back to Kumbakonam. There he enrolled in Kangayan Primary School. He was unlucky this time as well. When his paternal grandfather died, he was sent back to his maternal grandp...