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459. Fact
Bhagavantam
His contribution to radio astronomy and cosmic rays in noteworthy.

460. Fact
Bhaskaracharya
Born in 1114 a.d., bhaskaracharya was a great hindu mathematician and astronomer. He had a foresight on the modern theory of conventions.

461. Fact
S.s. Bhatnagar
A great indian scientist who lived between 1895 and 1955. He was the first director general of council of scientific and industrial research.

462. Fact
J.c.bose
He was an eminent physicist and botanist. He founded bose research institute, calcutta. He invented crescograph and lived between 1858 and 1937.

463. Fact
S.n. Bose
He expounded the bose einstein theory which deals with the detection of a group of nuclear particles - named after him 'boson'. His contribution to planck's law is laudable.

464. Fact
Dr. S.chandrasekhar
An indian-born american, who won nobel prize for physics in 1983. According to his theory, the old stars just collapse and disappear in the light of denser stars of low light popularly called chandrasekhar limit.

465. Fact
Charaka
He lived between 80 and 180 a.d. He was a court physician of king kanishka. His writings on hindu medicine are invaluable.

466. Fact
Dhanvantri
He was a great physician during the period of chandragupta vikramaditya. His period was between 375 and 413 a.d.

467. Fact
Hargobind khorana
He created an artificial gene and deciphered genetic code. He was awarded nobel prize for medicine in 1968.

468. Fact
Homi j.bhaba
He largely contributed to the development of atomic physics. He was the first chairman of atomic energy commission. He died in a plane crash in 1966 over alps.

469. Fact
Joshi
Prof. S.s.joshi's works on physical and chemical reaction under electrical discharge on active nitrogen, colloids, hydrogen peroxide are noteworthy.

470. Fact
Nagarjuna
A great buddhist philosopher and chemist. His theory on extraction of copper and metallic oxides are mention-worthy.

471. Fact
Nag chowdhury b.d
An eminent indian nuclear physicist known all over the world.

472. Fact
Narlikar
J.v.narlikar was the co-author of hoyle-narlikar theory of continuous creation which supplies missing links in einstein's theory of relativity.

473. Fact
Raja ramanna
A great nuclear scientist, who was instrumental to stage india's first nuclear explosion at pokharan range in 1974.

474. Fact
Sir c.v. Raman
First indian scientist to receive nobel prize for physics in 1929 for his invention 'raman effect'. He founded raman research institute at bangalore.

475. Fact
Sir c.p.roy
Author of 'hindu chemistry'. He founded indian chemical society and bengal chemical and pharmaceuticals ltd. He lived between 1861- 1944 ad.

476. Fact
Prof. V.ramachandra rao
Direction of indian scientific satellite project (issp) at peenya near bangalore.

477. Fact
Saha dr.maghnad
Late palit prof.of physics, university college of scientific and technology, calcutta university well-known for his researches in nuclear physics, cosmic rays, spectrum analysis . He lived from 1893 to 1956.

478. Fact
Srinivas ramanujam
A mathematical wizard, contributed much to number theory, theory of partitions and theory of continuous fractions. He lived between 1887 to 1920 ad.

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