topics: |  biography | india | science | history-modern

No table of contents.  Poorly edited, but functionally written.
starts with Ancient scientists - Susruta, Charaka,
Kanada (paramanu, chemical / thermal change), Patanjali (only yoga),
Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, Nagarjuna, Bhaskara.
Royal observers: Jahangir, Sawai Jai Singh II
Modern names includes D.R. Kaprekar and GN Ramachandran, as well as familiar
ones like Raja Ramanna, MGK Menon, JV Narlikar, CNR Rao,

For me the following names were unknown :
- S.K. Mitra - b. 1890 atmosphere physics
- K.S. Krishnan 1898, solid state physics, thermionics
- P. Maheswari, (1904, botanist, angiosperms)
- BP Pal (b 1906) agricultural scientist, NP (new Pusa) wheat 809
- A.S. Paintal (medicine, nerve receptors in lungs and stomach)
- D.N. Wadia (1883, geology of the Himalayas)
- TR Seshadri of Andhra/Delhi U (1900, org Chemistry)
- Devendra Lal of PRL b.1929 (cosmology),