This is the second volume of a set of two volumes. It comprises a collection of scientists’ lives, their struggles, their achievements and their laurels. The scientists have been grouped under five disciplines—Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Life Sciences. The reader meets people from various backgrounds—those with insufficient schooling, those with little money, those born into aristocracy, those with science in their blood, those battling with grave illnesses, those who moved from one discipline to another (as different as possible from each other); ultimately culminating in path-breaking scientific discoveries. The aim of these brief biographical sketches is to inspire a wider audience to take up the noble pursuit of pure sciences.
Dr R Parthasarathy graduated in Physics from St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirapalli. He obtained his Engineering degree (D.I.I.Sc) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and his Ph.D in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee).
Engineering Ampere, Andre Marie Benz, Karl Bessemer, Henry Bhabha, Homi Bosch, Carl Cayley, George Cockcroft, John Daimler, Gottlieb De Laval, Gustav Francis, James Grove, Andrew Guillemin, Ernst Kaplan, Victor Kelly, William Khosla, A. N. Korolov, Sergi Lienthal, Otto Mond, Ludwig Morse, Samuel Otto, Nikolous Parsons, Charles Pelton, Lester Prandtl, Ludwig Reynolds, Osborne Sarabhai, Vikram Seshu, Sundaram Sperry, Elmer Tata, J. R. D. Vishveshwaraya, M. Von Bekesy, Georg Westinghouse, George Wheatstone, Charles Wollaston, William Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur
Physics Blackett, P.M.S. Blau, Mariette Bose, J.C. Bose, S.N. Boyle, Robert Brewster, David Claussius, Rudolf Compton, Arthur Curie, Pierre de Broglie, Louis Ehrenfest, Paul Franck, James Gabor, Dennis Geiger, Hans Hahn, Otto Herzberg, Gerad Hess, Victor Kilby, Jack Kramers, Hendrik Krishnan, K.S. Landau, Lev Lawrence, Ernest Lenard, Philip Lenz, Henirich Lorentz, Hendrik Meitner, Lise Michelson, Albert Mosley, Henry Neel, Louis Oppenheimer, Robert Rabi, I.I. Rayleigh, Lord Rotblat, Joesph Saha, M.N. Schrodinger, Erwin Seaborg, Gleen T. Smith, George Sommerfeld, Arnold Stern, Otto Szilard, Leo Weber, Wilhelm Wilson, C.T.R.
Mathematics Bolyai, Janos Bolyai, Wolfgang Carbano, Gerolomo Cayley, Arthur Chebyshev, Pafulty D’ Alembert, Jean de Moivre, Abraham De Morgan, Ausustus Dirichlet, Peter Galileo, Galilei Green, George Hamilton, William Hermite Charles Hubble, Edwin Jacobi, Carl Klein, Felix Kronecker, Leopold Lefschetz, Solomon Legendre, A.M. Louisville, Joseph Lyapunov, Alexander Mahalanobis, P.C. Moebius, August Monge, Gaspard Nash, John Pierce, Charles Pluecker, Julius Poisson, Simon Ranganathan, S.R. Steiner, Jakob Sylvester, James Taylor, Brook Von Neumann, John Weierstrass, Karl Whitehead, A.N.
Chemistry Curie, Marie Davy, Humphry Debye, Peter Fischer, Emil Ghosh, J.C. Gibbs,Willard Haber, Fritz Klaproth, Martin Kopp, Hermann Le Chatlier, Henry Lewis, G.N. Meyer, Victor Mitscherlich, Eilhard Nernst, Walther Nobel, Alfred Ostwald, Wilhelm Pauling, Linus Priestley, Joseph Ray, Acharya P.C Seshadri, T.R. Soddy, Frederick Urey, Harold Van’t Hoff, Jacobus Venkataraman, K.
Life Science Banting, Frederick Eijkman, Christian Elion, Gertrude Eysenek, Hans Fleming, Alexander Franklin, Rosalind Hopkins, Frederik Huxley, Thomas Jenner, Edward Koch, Robert Landsteiner, Karl Laveran, Alphonse Linneaus, Carl Lister, Joseph Manson, Patrick McClintock, Barbara Mendel, Gregor Pasteur, Louis Perutz, Max Ross, Ronald Row, Y. Subba Sahni, Birbal Salk, Jonas Sircar, Mahendralal
In science, a spectacular achievement is remembered but the foundation on which the achievement was based is often forgotten; Dr Parthasarathy reminds us of this basic fact. The scientists selected by the author span several centuries and almost all the persons who laid the foundation of modern science and built its edifice are there. This is a store-house of information, there is almost nothing in it, which is not interesting.