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Friday, January 24, 2014

Know (Y)our Scientists


Indian scientists have played a stellar role in the development of India. In the short span of its post-independence history India has achieved several great scientific achievements. Indian scientists have proved their mettle in the face of international sanctions and have made India one of the scientific powerhouses of the world. Here is a brief profile of famous Indian scientists.

C.V. Raman: 

C.V. Raman is one of the most renowned scientists produced by India. His full name was Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. For his pioneering work on scattering of light, C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

Homi Bhabha:

Homi Bhabha, whose full name was Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, was a famous Indian atomic scientist. In Independent India, Homi Jehnagir Bhabha, with the support of Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundation of a scientific establishment and was responsible for the creation of two premier institutions, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

Jagdish Chandra Bose:

Jagdish Chandra Bose was born on November 30, 1858 in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). His father Bhagabanchandra Bose was a Deputy Magistrate. Jagadish Chandra Bose had his early education in village school in Bengal medium.

Meghnad Saha:

Meghnad Saha was born on October 6, 1893 in Sheoratali, a village in the District of Dacca, now in Bangladesh. He was the fifth child of his parents, Sri Jagannath Saha and Smt. Bhubaneshwari Devi. His father was a grocer in the village. Meghnad Saha had his early schooling in the primary school of the village.

M. Visvesvaraya:

Sir M. Visvesvaraya was born on September 15, 1860 in Muddenahalli village in the Kolar district of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore (present day Karnataka). His father Srinivasa Sastry was a Sanskrit scholar and Ayurvedic practitioner. His mother Venkachamma was a religious lady. He lost his father when he was only 15 years old.

Satyendra Nath Bose:

Satyendra Nath Bose was an outstanding Indian physicist. He is known for his work in Quantum Physics. He is famous for "Bose-Einstein Theory" and a kind of particle in atom has been named after his name as Boson.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar:

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. He did commendable work in astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.

Vikram Sarabhai:

Vikram Sarabhai was one of the greatest scientists of India. He is considered as the Father of the Indian space program. Apart from being a scientist, he was a rare combination of an innovator, industrialist and visionary.

Anil Kakodkar:

Dr Anil Kakodkar is a very distinguished nuclear scientist of India. He is presently the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI) as well as the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy.

APJ Abdul Kalam:

Apart from being a notable scientist and engineer, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India from the period 2002 to 2007. He is a man of vision, who is always full of ideas aimed at the development of the country and is also often also referred to as the Missile Man of India.

Birbal Sahni:

Birbal Sahni was a renowned paleobotanist of India, who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. Also a great geologist, Sahni is credited for establishing the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Born on 14 November in the year 1891 at Behra in the Saharanpur District of West Punjab, Birbal was the third son of Ishwar Devi and Prof.

Srinivasa Ramanujan:

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician par excellence. He is widely believed to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century. Srinivasa Ramanujan made significant contribution to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.

Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar:

Dr Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was a distinguished Indian scientist. He was born on 21 February 1894 at Shahpur, which is located in Pakistan in present times. His father passed away sometime after the birth of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. As such, he spent his childhood days with his maternal grandfather who was an engineer and it was here that he developed an interest in science and engineering.

Har Gobind Khorana:

Har Gobind Khorana is an American molecular biologist born on 9 January 1922 to an Indian Punjabi couple. For his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in the year 1968.

Raja Ramanna:

Handpicked by the founder of India's nuclear program, Dr. Homi Bhabha, Dr. Raja Ramanna was a celebrated physicist and nuclear scientist that India had ever produced. A multifaceted personality, Dr. Raja Ramanna played the roles of a technologist, nuclear physicist, administrator, leader, musician, Sanskrit literature scholar, and philosophy researcher.

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni:

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, a successful botanist of his days, is remembered till date for his widespread contribution in the field of palynology. His researches and projects not only helped India to make its presence felt on the world stage of botany, it also furthered public relations between two countries.

Harish-Chandra:

For those who quiver at the thought of calculations and numerical deductions, unless when counting money, mathematics can be the equivalent of hell on earth. And for such 'math atheists' a mathematician like Harish Chandra can very well seem like a mirage. Harish Chandra is one amongst those few people who often.

G. N. Ramachandran:

Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran, popularly referred to as G. N. Ramachandran surely must be included in the list of one of the best scientists that 20th century India had produced. The best known work of G. N. Ramachandran till date is the Ramachandran plot, which the scientist had conceived along with Viswanathan Sasisekharan, to understand the structure of peptides.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis:

Economic census, population census, agricultural surveys and various other large scale and in depth samples and surveys that have been admired the world over for their scope and accuracy owes its popularity and worldwide acceptance to the grit, determination and genius of one man, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.

Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao:

Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao was one of the greatest physicists of 20th century India. His work in spectroscopy led to the development of the Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance in Physics. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao is also known for his long association with the Andhra University in which he served as professor of Physics and subsequently.

Salim Ali:

Almost every one of us is interested in watching colorful and distinct birds crossing us. But very few are passionate about studying them in detail. One such man who took extreme interest and excitement in studying birds closely and categorizing them was Dr. Salim Ali. One of the greatest biologists of all times.

Yellapragada Subbarao:

"You've probably never heard of Dr. Yellapragada Subba Rao, yet because he lived you may be well and alive today; because he lived you may live longer". A famous adage quoted by American author, Doron K. Antrim, Yellapragada Subbarao was one of those rare people who made several significant contributions.

Sam Pitroda:

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda is a famous Indian and a renowned inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker who currently serves as an advisor to the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Manmohan Singh. His work revolves around Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations. He is respected for being a technological intellect

Venkataraman Ramakrishnan:

Indian born American, Venkataraman Ramakrishnan is a senior scientist in the Structural Division at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in Cambridge, England. This great scholar has worked in various fields of biology during the earlier part of his career. However, Venkat along with Thomas A.

Courtesy: I love India


Urs,

Inspired article - "Dream for Succes"

Today, i was going through with my favorite blogs and articles and read the below article which inspired me a lot and thought to share in my blog with my friends here:

"How do you describe success? Is it big houses, cars, lands, cattle, power, wives, husbands or what? I describe success so simple it makes everybody successful. Think about what you have, think about what you don’t have and think about what you want in your life and what you need in life. How do these things play in ur life? Are u sleepless or simply sick because you don’t have what you wanted? I think life is simple to live but we have decided to make it as hard as we can. Think about the birds in the sky, the animals in the bush, the animals in the seas and oceans. Why are these creatures successful in life? What actually makes us so stressed out in life? You might be living in the trenches but you might be successful than a billionaire in the news. Success is how you define your dreams, goals ambitions and once you hit them, you’ve accomplished your mission. In writing our dreams and goals in life, we need to use very clean and clear language to define what we really want in life. Sometimes, we live our whole life without having any defined ambition in life. Our goals and ambitions must be possible to accomplish. Don’t set goals that are impossible to achieve because such goals will make u feel like a big looser. With a good language and an achievable goal in life, it’s likely most of us will achieve our dreams more often. Life is not promised to be easy but it’s not promised to be difficult either. We are not created to suffer, we are created to prosper but heaven helps those who help themselves. Everybody have their mission on earth and the more they push towards getting the job down, the easier their chances of accomplishing success. Write out your dreams and goals in life out loud and keep pushing to achieve them. May you achieve your dreams in life"
bye,

The Greatest Inventions of All Times

Air-Conditioning,  1902 Willis Haviland Carrier
Animation, Motion-Picture 1906 J. Stuart Blackton
Answering Machine, Telephone 1898 Valdemar Poulsen
Aspirin 1897 Felix Hoffmann (Bayer)
Assembly Line 1913 Henry Ford
Audiotape 1928 Fritz Pfleumer
Automated Teller Machine (ATM) 1968 Don Wetzel
Calculator  1967 Jack S. Kilby
Calendar, Modern (Gregorian) 1582 Pope Gregory XIII
Camcorder  1982 Sony Corp.
Camera, Motion Picture  1891 Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson
Camera, Portable Photographic 1888 George Eastman
Communications Satellite  1962 John Robinson Pierce
Compact Disc (CD) 1980 Philips Electronics, Sony Corp.
Detector, Home Smoke 1969 Randolph Smith, Kenneth House
Digital Camera  1975 Steven Sasson
DNA Fingerprinting  1984 Alec Jeffreys
Floppy Disk  1971 Yoshiro Nakamatsu
GPS  1973 Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, & Ivan A. Getting.
iPod, 2001 Apple, Inc
Laptop  1982 Radio Shack Corp.
LED  1962 Nick Holonyak, Jr.
Microwave Oven  1945 Percy L. Spencer
Mobile phone  1947 Bell Laboratories
Mouse  1964 Douglas Engelbart
MP3 Player  1998 Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products.
MRI(magnetic resonance imaging) 1973 Raymond Damadian, Paul Lauterbur
Periodic Table 1871 Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
Refrigerator 1842 John Gorrie
Stove, Electric 1896 William Hadaway
Stove, Gas 1826 James Sharp
Television 1923, 27 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Philo Taylor Farnsworth
The Airplane,  1903 The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur 
The Internet  1969 Advanced Research Projects Agency @Dept. of Defense.
The Telegraph,  1837 Pavel Schilling
The Telephone,  1876 Alexander Graham Bell
Tv Remote Control  1955 Robert Adler
Vacuum Cleaner, Electric 1901 Herbert Cecil Booth
Video Games 1972 Nolan Bushnell
Washing Machine, Electric 1907 Alva J. Fisher

Bye,

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

My Wish, My Thought and My Fear.

Today as I was chitchatting with one of my old school friend after a long time, and in between we were discussing on Delhi Gang RAPE topic and Esther Anuhya, a TCS employee case and leaves me shuddered. After hanging down the call it puts a big question mark on one of the most wish I have had. From what I can remember ,i have always wanted to have a daughter and giving her all that and more of what she deserved. And so I start thinking ,what exactly would be the world that I would want for my daughter. A world where:

1.Where she would be known for being HER, good or bad… and not because she is someone’s daughter ,that she belongs to a particular family or birth or for the individual she got married to.

2. A world where she can become anything she wants or chooses to be.

3.Where people would know that she wants to wear that short dress just because its comfortable and cute and not because she wants to draw attention. Where people doesn't care of what she is wearing, where people take casual for the girls outfits.

4.Where she would be roaming around to every corner of earth which she wants to explore, anytime of the day or night just the way any guy would.

5.Where no one would relate their image, their height or with her actions. The only image she would be responsible of is that of her own.

6. Where no one would bring her pink stuff until and unless they know that it is the color she prefers, and would not assume it just because she is a girl.

7. Where she would have an absolute right to choose to get married to the person of her choice, or for that matter an absolute right to remain single.

8.Where cooking would be optional and career a priority, just the way it would be for her husband.

9.Where she would always have the right to NOT HAVE BABIES if she wishes so.

10. Where she would not never need an advise on how to keep herself safe when she steps out.

11. Where she would have full right to choose who see looks like, what she wants to wear and what type of dish she wants to eat irrespective of her family or birth.

12. Where she would feel blessed to have come to life.

well, my list continues...

bye,

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Gay Marriages: Sin or Right?


I’m not a big fan of talking about marriages but l want to raise this issue which has become so popular and about to change the definition of marriage. I was born to know marriage as a committment between a man and a woman to share their life together in both happiness and difficulties but l think a new definition is erupting in the USA for marriage as committment between two animals that find themselves “fuckable”. Now, when I think about gay marriage, I think of totally lost of common sense but l do not want to hurt no one so l just keep my mouth shut but the issue needs to be adress or we may face the wages of sin very soon. What do you think about gay marriage? Is it a right or sin?


Bye,

My Addiction to Social Networking is Making me Fat and Less Productive


Today when I woke up I opened my Ipad nd Iphone and then I saw that the WiFi wasn't working. I panicked. Then I had nothing to do. I thought it isn't that bad, I can do something else. Maybe to watch TV. Ops no I need the Internet for it. Then I only had one thing to do…. House Cleaning. Like it was long time passed I cleaned the house. I realized that I’m kind of addicted to Internet-work.

People become addicted to social networking sites and they start spending hours and hours in front of their laptops or even their mobiles. I thought for a while that the social media addiction is the one l should be thinking on because I was one of the people who spent about 10 hrs a day patrolling social websites, generating contents almost every 5 minutes and contributing to the wealth of such big social network owners like Facebook, Google Plus etc.

Technology is good and evil and humans have the sole responsibility to chose what to consume at what time. Business owners have the mind set to make money, they don’t care about our success or our future. Its all up to each of us to decide what to do with our life at every moment we still breathing. Now, the getting fat part of social media. I know this is crazy but l think social network and technology itself is getting most of our current generation fat and lazy. 

I have watched some people near to me and in my Facebook page, spending lot of time on social network almost commenting, liking, recommending or posting updates on hourly bases. I think this is a whole messy distraction that will not produce very good graduates or leaders of the next generation. 

I am not Anti to social network but just as l love it, l hate how it has taken over most of our lives to the extent we almost live our life online than in real life. We feel obliged to keep conversations about our online life going and forget about our real life. 

Life is a choice so what we decide to do with ours is all up to us. There will never be any regulation on how much time we can spend online so there is no need to think the cops will be knocking on our door because we spend too much time on social sites. Truth is, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what is online, what matters is your real life, so its better to get one and make it important. We may promote our business or sites online and generate income for our-self, that’s a good idea and beneficial.

Have a great day and try to live in real life with real friends.

bye,