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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
Meghnad Saha
Bengali Astrophysicist (1893–1956)
Vikram Sarabhai
father of Indian space programme (1919–1971)
E. C. George Sudarshan
Indian physicist (1931–2018)
Anna Mani
Indian meteorologist
Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
Tom Kibble
British physicist (1932–2016)
Ashoke Sen
Indian physicist
Raja Ramanna
Indian nuclear scientist (1925-2004)
Udupi Ramachandra Rao
Indian space scientist (1932–2017)
Yash Pal
Indian physicist (1926–2017)
Abhay Ashtekar
Indian physicist
Rohini Godbole
Indian physicist (1952–2024)
Satish Dhawan
former ISRO Chairman
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
G. N. Ramachandran
Indian scientist (1922-2001)
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon
Indian physicist
Thanu Padmanabhan
Indian theoretical physicist (1957–2021)
Roddam Narasimha
Indian scientist (1933–2020)
Priyamvada Natarajan
Indian astronomer
Daulat Singh Kothari
Indian physicist (1906–1993)
Homi Sethna
Indian chemical engineer (1923–2010)
Joyanti Chutia
Indian Physicist
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Indian climate scientist
Jogesh Pati
American physicist
Annapurni Subramaniam
Indian scientist
Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Indian physicist (1898-1961)
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
Indian space scientist
Raman Sundrum
American physicist
Madhu Dandavate
Indian politician (1924-2005)
Somnath Bharadwaj
Indian physicist
M.R. Srinivasan
former Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission India
Rajagopala Chidambaram
Indian metallurgist
Nagin Cox
NASA scientist
Purnima Sinha
Indian physicist
Archana Bhattacharyya
Indian physicist
Shobhana Narasimhan
Indian scientist
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
person (1923-2005)
Sulabha K. Kulkarni
Indian physicist
Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan
Indian physicist
Manju Bansal
Indian biophysicist
Rama Govindarajan
Indian scientist, professor
Radha Balakrishnan
Indian physicist
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Indian physicist (1890–1963)
Trilochan Pradhan
Indian Physicist
Prajval Shastri
Astrophysicist
P. K. Iyengar
Indian nuclear physicist (1931-2011)
Sajeev John
Canadian physicist
K. R. Ramanathan
Indian physicist
Sekhar Basu
Indian nuclear scientist (1952-2020)
Rajendra Singh
Fourth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
B. Vijayalakshmi
Indian physicist
N. Valarmathi
Indian scientist
Mani Lal Bhaumik
American physicist
Piara Singh Gill
Indian physicist (1911–2002)
Kris Gopalakrishnan
Padmasree awarded 2011