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Indian Scientists and Scholars
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Indian scientists and scholars questions cover significant contributions in astronomy, physics, and other scientific fields. These historical and contemporary achievements are vital for the general awareness sections of SSC and banking exams. Practice these questions to remember key scientific milestones and their inventors.
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Indian Scientists and Scholars Questions
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C.V. Raman
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S.S. Bhatnagar
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H.J. Bhabha
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None of these
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Homi J. Bhabha is known as the father of the Indian nuclear program and played a pivotal role in establishing India's atomic energy capabilities. He founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the Atomic Energy Commission of India. Bhabha tragically died in a plane crash in 1966 while traveling to Geneva.
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Mohan Sundra Rajan
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Rajendra Chauhan
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Nitin A.Gokhale
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Nilesh Shrivastava
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Mohan Sundra Rajan is the author of 'Telescopes in India'. This work documents the history and development of astronomical telescopes in the Indian context, covering both historical and modern aspects of observational astronomy in India. The question tests knowledge of specific scientific literature and Indian science authors.
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Dr. J. C. Bose
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Dr. C. V. Raman
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Dr. H. J. Bhabha
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Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras Province, whose groundbreaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Y. R. Gaitonde
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Dr. Suniti Solomon
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Dr. Seema Sahay
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Robert Gallo
B
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Dr. Suniti Solomon holds the honour of documenting the first evidence of HIV infection in the country way back in 1986.
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Shuji Nakamura and Peter Higgs
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Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
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Isamu Akasaki and François Englert
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David J. Wineland and Serge Haroche
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François Englert and Shuji Nakamura
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Richard Smalley
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K. Eric Drexler
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Sajeev John
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Pallab Bhattacharya
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Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer, best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology, from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992.
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Only (1)
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Only (2)
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Both (1) and (2)
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Neither (1) nor (2)
C
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Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology is a unit of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. This centre is engaged in R&D in non-nuclear front-line research areas of lasers, particle accelerators and related technologies.
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V Kurien
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MS Swaminathan
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MGS Narayanan
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Hargobind Khorana
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Verghese Kurien (V. Kurien) is known as the Father of India's White Revolution for transforming India from a milk-deficient nation to the world's largest milk producer through Operation Flood. M.S. Swaminathan led the Green Revolution (crops), while Hargobind Khorana was a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist.
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Leeuwenhoek
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P. Maheshwari
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Noll
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Steward
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Guignard
B
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He is known as the father of angiosperm embryology in India.
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Dr. U.R. Rao
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Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Dr. Chidambaram
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Dr. Homi Bhabha
B
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Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, known as the Missile Man of India, played a pivotal role in developing India's missile programs including IGMDP (Integrated Guided Missile Development Program) which produced missiles like Prithvi, Agni, Akash, Trishul and Nag. He served as DRDO chief and later became President of India. Dr. U.R. Rao was a space scientist, Dr. Chidambaram is a nuclear physicist, and Dr. Homi Bhabha was the father of India's nuclear program.
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Sreejith Raman
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Ajay Singh
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Ganesh Manav
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P.T Ajith Kumar
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P.T. Ajith Kumar, a holography scientist, was elected as president of the Asian Anti Counterfeit Association (AAA) India chapter. AAA works to combat counterfeiting across Asia.
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CV Raman
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Meghnad Saha
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Raja Ramanna
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Homi J. Bhabha
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Homi J. Bhabha is widely recognized as the father of India's atomic energy programme. He founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1945 and established the Atomic Energy Commission of India in 1948. His vision and leadership laid the foundation for India's nuclear research capabilities, including the establishment of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). CV Raman was a physicist, Meghnad Saha was an astrophysicist, and Raja Ramanna was a nuclear physicist who came later.
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Ronald Ross
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Louis Pasteur
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Norman Borlaugh
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P. Subbarao
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Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria transmission. While posted as a military doctor in India, he discovered that malaria parasites are transmitted by mosquitoes (specifically Anopheles mosquitoes) - a breakthrough he demonstrated in Secunderabad in 1897. This discovery was crucial for understanding and controlling the deadly disease of malaria.
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MS Swaminathan
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Birbal Sanhi
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Ramdeo Misra
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HG Khorana
C
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Ramdeo Misra is reversed as father of ecology in India.