Famous Personalities and Discoveries

Emile Durkheim is known as the principal architect of modern Sociology. He expanded the positivism as pronounced by the August Comte and propounded structural functionalism. According to him, Sociology should study large extents of the attribute in a society and not limit its area of study.

Martin Luther was a German philosopher, priest, monk and was considered as ‘Father of Protestantism’ for his immense contribution in fighting against Catholic heads and their atrocities and for establishing the protestant community.  

William Jones Jones set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal and started a journal called Asiatic Researches. The aim was to discover ancient Indian heritage and translate Sanskrit and Persian works into English.

Heliocentric theory is an astronomical model which was proposed by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. In this theory, the sun is at the center of the solar system and all the planets and heavenly bodies revolve around it.

Roger Bacon is often cited for his early scientific observations and predictions about future technologies, including flying machines and motorized vehicles.

Bhaskara II was a prominent Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote the Siddhanta Shiromani.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, known as Albucasis, is considered the father of surgery for his extensive medical encyclopedia, Kitab al-Tasrif.

Al Biruni, Roger Bacon, and Ibn al Qasim were all significant contributors to various scientific fields during the medieval period.

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) was a polymath who made significant contributions to both medicine, notably with The Canon of Medicine, and philosophy.

Norman Borlaug is known as the father of green revolution in the world but in India Dr. M.S. Swaminathan is known as father of green revolution. Green revolution that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960. The initiatives resulted in the adoption of new technologies.

Brahmagupta, an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer, stated in his work that all things tend to gravitate toward the earth, anticipating Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Norman Barlaug, the "Father of Green Revolution" received the Nobel prize in 1970 for the high-yielding variety of wheat at global internationally. Whereas Swaminathan is known as a father of green revolution in India.

• Norman E. Borlaug developed successive generations of wheat crops with qualities such as disease resistance, better adaptations to grow in areas with temperature variations and high yielding capacity. 
• These new wheat varieties along with improved crop management techniques revolutionized agricultural production in Mexico during the 1940s and 1950s. 
• It also influenced agricultural practices in Asia and Latin America leading to the Green Revolution.

The principle of the Garden City was developed by architect and planner Ebenezer Howard to solve the problem of the growing congestion and pollution of the city of London. The Garden City was a pleasant space full of plants and trees, where people would both work and live.