Saturday 9 April 2016

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam   (A.P.J.Abdul kalam) 

Born      :   15 october  1931, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu

Died      :  27 july 2015

Parents  :  Jainulabdeen , Ashiamma

Nationality : India

Education : Schwartz Higher Secondary school,Saint Joseph's college  in tiruchirapalliy

Scientis: Aerospace scientist

Work area DRDO and ISRo . His work on the development of Balistic Missile and Launch vehicle Techonology. 

Awards : Bharat ratna 1997, Padma vibhushana 1990, Padma bhushana 1981 

Books : India2020, Wings of Fire , Ignited Minds, The Luminous , Sparks Mission of India,

Inspring thoughts, Indomitable Spirit, Envisioning, You are Born to Blooms, Target 3 Billion

President : 11th  President of  india



Isaac Newton
Born   : 4th January  1643 woollsthorpe – colsterworth , unitied kingdom

Parents   : Issac Newton , Hannah Ayscough

Died   : 31st March 1727

Education : King’s school in Gratham, England and Trinity college of Cambridge, England

Nationality : English

Scientist : Physics , Natural Philosophy

Books: Man Behind Gravity, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Work area : Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics, Natural Philosophy, Economics


Quote : I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of peoples








Albert Einstein


Born   :14th march 1879 Ulm, Germany

Parents   :Hermann Einstein, Pauline Koch

Died   : 18th April 1955, Princeton Newjersey, United States

Education : Luitpold Gymnasium

Nationality : Germany

Scientist : physicist
Awards : The Nobel prize in physics in1921, Discovery of the law of the Photo-electric effect

Books:The field equation of gravity, Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity, Quantum theory of monatomic ideal gases

Work area : Photoelectric effect , Brownian motion ,  Special relativity Matter-Energy equivalence


Quotes     : Two things are inifinite; the univers and human stupidity and i am not.







Srinivasa Ramanujan

Born      : 22nd december 1887, Erode, Madras Presidency

Died      :26th April 1920, Chetput, Chennai

Parents  : K.srinivasa Iyengar, Komalatammal

Nationality : India

Education : Trinity college , Cambridge (Bsc in 1916)

Scientist : Mathematics

Work area :Mathematical analysis , Number theory, Inifinite series , continued fractions

Awards :Dada palke , barath Ratna , Ekalauya , Padmasri , Padma vibushan


Books : collected papers of srinivasa  ramanujan, note book of srinivasa ramanujan

Quote :  "Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy."   





        Euclid

Born : Mid-4th century (B C E)

Died : Mid-3rd century (B C E)  

Nationality :  Greek

Scientist : Mathematician 
Books : Euclid Geometry, Euclid elements , Euclid Algorithm

Work area : Perspective ,Conic Sections , Spherical geometry ,Number Theory

"FATHER OF GEOMETRY"  




Aryabhatta



Born : 476 AD ,Assaka

Died : 550 AD , India

Books Aryabhata , Surya Siddhanth

Scientist :Mathematician - Astronomy

Nationality : Indian

Work Area : Mathematician - Astronomy, Arthmetic,Algebra, Plane trigonometry, Spherical trigonometry.

Education : nalanda , Pataliputra



C.V. Raman
(Chandrasekhar Venkat Raman)

Born   : 7th  november  1888 Thiruvanaikaval, Tiruchirapalli  Madras Presidency

Awards:Noble Prize in Physics1930, Bharat Ratna  , lenin peace prize, Fellow of the royal society, knight Bachelor

Died    :21st november 1970

Books :Scattering of Light, Acoustics, Optics, Optics of minerals and Diamond, Physics of Crystals, Floral colors and Visual Perception

Scientist : Physics

Nationality : Indian

Work Area  : Physics , Raman Effect

Education    :St.Aloysius Anglo-Indian High school, vizag,  Presidency College in Madras for B.A, Master of Arts  from University of Madras

Marriage  :  Married in 6th May 1907  Lokasundari ammal

Childrens : Chandrasekhar, Radhakrishnan


Brahmagupta

Born   : 598 AD, Bhinmal

Parents :  Jishnugupta

Died : 665 AD , India

Books : Algebra with Arithmetic and  Mensuration

Scientist : Mathematician

Nationality : Indian

Work Area : Mathematician - Astronomy

Education : Brahmapaksha school



C.P.Ramanujam    

(Chakravathi Padmanabhan Ramanujam)

Born     : 9th  january 1938,Chennai ,Tamil Nadu

Parents   : Chakravarthi Srinivasa Padmanabhan

Awards : Indian Academy of science

Died :27th October 1974, Bangalore,

Scientist : Mathematician

Nationality :Indian

Work Area  :Mathematics ,Number theory and Algebraic Geomentry

Education : Loyal college in Madras, Tata institution of Fundamental Research Bombay



K. G. Ramanathan  

(kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan)

Born     :13th november 1920  , Hyderabad

Died :10th may 1992  , Bombay

Nationality : Indian

Education :  Osmania University (B.A), University of Madras (M.A), Princeton university (Ph.D)

Scientist :  Mathematician

Awards  Padma Bhushan in 1983,Santhi Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1965

Books : Continued Fractions, Kronecker's Limit Formula


Work Area : Number theory , Acta Arthi 





Stephen Hawking


Born   : 8th january 1942 , Oxford , Unitied Kingdom

Parents   : Frank, Isobel Hawkin

Died :live
Nationality   British

Education: University of Oxford, University of Cambridge

Scientist : Theoretical Physicist

Awards: Adams prize 1966,Hughes medal 1976, CBE 1982, RAS Gold medal 1985 Wolf Prize 1988, Lilienfeld Prize 1999, Copely Medal 2006, Fundemental physics Prize 2012

Books: The Grand Design, A Brief History of Time

Work Area: General relativity, Quantum Gravity

Marriage : Jane Wilde


Children: Robert, Lucy, Timothy






Aristotle


Born   : 384 bc Stagira, Greece 

Parents   : Nicomachus

Died :  322 BC Chalcis, Greece 

Nationality  : Greece 

Education: Peripatetic school

Scientist:  Greek philosopher

Books :  Aristotlelian Physics,


Quotes  : We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.







Nicolaus Copernicus

Born   :  19th feb 1473 Tourn ,Poland

Parents   : Barbara Watzenrode

Died :24th may 1543,  Frombork, Poland

Nationality  Poland

Education: University of ferrara, University of  Bologna, University of Padua

Scientist : Mathematician and Astronomer

Work Area: Astronomy, Canon Law , Economics, Mathematics, Medican, Politics


Quotes  : Mathematics is written for mathematicians.


Galileo Galilei
Born   :  15th feb 1564 pisa , italy
Parents   :Vincenzo galilei, ammannati
Died :8th january 1642, arcetri ,italy
Nationality  :Italy
Education: University of pisa for medical degree
Scientist: Astronomer, Physicist, engineer, Philosopher
Books:Kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observational astronomy
Work Area : Natural Philosophy
Quotes  : You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.



Robert Boyle
Born   : 25th january 1627, Lismore, Waterford , Republic of Ireland
Died :31st December
1691,London, United kingdom
Nationality  :Irish
Education: The Royal Society of london
Scientist : Chemist and Physicist
Awards: FRS 1663
Work Area : Physics and Chemistry  





Blaise Pascal

Born : 19 June 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France
Died :19 August 1662 (aged 39) Paris, France
Nationality  : French
Education   :  Jansenism
Scientist      :  Physical science
Work Area   :  Theology Mathematics
Invention      :  Mechanical calculator




Herman Hollerith
Born  : February 29, 1860  Buffalo, New York
Died : November 17, 1929 (aged 69) Washington, D.C
Nationality  :New York
Education      : City College of New York (1875) Columbia University School of Mines (1879)
Scientist      : Electro mechanical
Work Area   : Inventorbusinessman
Invention     Data processing system ,  punched card tabulating machine




Charles Babbage
Born   :  26 December 1791   London,                         England
Died :18 October 1871 (aged 79) Marylebone, London, England
Nationality  :English
Education: Trinity College, Cambridge
Scientist : Engineer
Work Area :Mathematics, engineering, political economy, computer science
 Invention : Mechanical Computer

                        "father of the computer"



Philo Farnsworth
Born :  August 19, 1906 near Beaver, Utah, U.S.[1]
Died : March 11, 1971 (aged 64) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Nationality : American
Education : United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland
Scientist     : Physician
Work Area  : Philco, Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph 
Invention  :  Television



Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Died  :  November 14, 1716 (aged 70) Hanover, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire
Nationality  : German
Education   : Rationalism
Scientist     : physics and technology
Work area  philosophy, Politics, Law, Ethics, Theology, History, and Philology. 
Invention    :  Mechanical calculators. Pascal's calculator, he was the first to describe a pinwheel calculator in 1685

                                        Charles Francis Jenkins

Born  :  August 22, 1867  Dayton, Ohio
Died  : June 6, 1934 (age 66) Washington, D.C.               
Nationality :  American
Education : Engineering career, Earlham College
Scientist   : Moving picture
Work Area:  Stenographer.

Invention :  Early cinema and one of the inventors of television



Vladimir K. Zworykin

Born  :  Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin July 29, 1888 Murom, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire
Died :  July 29, 1982 (aged 94) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality : American
Education : Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology ESPCI University of Pittsburgh PhD
Work Area : Infrared image tubes and the electron microscope.
Invention : Television technology television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes. 


David Sarnoff

Born  :  February 27, 1891 Uzlyany near Minsk, Russian Empire (present-day Belarus)
Died  :  December 12, 1971 (aged 80) Manhattan, New York City, USA
Nationality : American
Work Area  :  Radio Corporation of America
Invention  :  Radio and television.



Wright brothers

Born :   Orville: August 19, 1871, Dayton, Ohio
Wilbur: April 16, 1867, Millville, Indiana
Died  :Orville: January 30, 1948 (aged 76), Dayton
Wilbur: May 30, 1912 (aged 45), Dayton
Nationality: American
Education :Orville 3 years high school; Wilbur 4 years
Work Area :Orville: Printer/publisher, bicycle retailer/manufacturer, airplane inventor/manufacturer, pilot trainer
Wilbur: Editor, bicycle retailer/manufacturer, airplane inventor/manufacturer, pilot trainer
Invention : Airplane








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