Scientists & Nobel Laureates GK

Kalpana Chawla was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space, not Sunita Williams.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867 and later used his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes.

C.V. Raman was one of the first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954, along with C. Rajagopalachari and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Vikram Sarabhai is widely recognized as the father of the Indian space program for his role in establishing the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), which later became ISRO.

Homi J. Bhabha was a nuclear physicist who founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and led India's nuclear energy program, earning him the title of father of the Indian nuclear program.

C.V. Raman was a physicist who discovered the Raman effect, which describes the inelastic scattering of light by molecules, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist known for his work on black holes. The title 'Missile Man of India' refers to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was indeed awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.