Indian Diaspora and the Sciences: A Legacy of Innovation and Discovery

Raj Reddy is an Indian-American computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. He is known for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and computer science.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian-American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome.

Amartya Sen is an Indian-American economist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory.

Subhash Khot is an Indian-American mathematician who is known for his work on the Unique Games Conjecture.

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his work on the theory of white dwarf stars.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian-American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome.

Raj Reddy is an Indian-American computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. He is known for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and computer science, and won the Turing Award in 2007.

Subhash Khot is an Indian-American mathematician who is known for his work on the Unique Games Conjecture and won the Fields Medal in 2010.

Saul Perlmutter is an Indian-American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for his work on the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Shafi Goldwasser is an Indian-American computer scientist and professor at MIT. She is known for her contributions to the field of cryptography and won the Turing Award in 2012.

Manjul Bhargava is an Indian-American mathematician who is known for his work on number theory and won the Fields Medal in 2014.

Kip Thorne is an Indian-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

Yoshua Bengio is an Indian-Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Montreal. He is known for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and won the Turing Award in 2018.

Akshay Venkatesh is an Indian-American mathematician who is known for his work on number theory and won the Fields Medal in 2018.

Subir Sachdev is an Indian-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his contributions to the understanding of quantum materials.