Biography of indian scientists in american association
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Indian American Scientists and their Multi-Decadal Accomplishments
In identifying molecular biologist Mihir Metkar as the primary contributor to its Covid vaccine, the pharmaceutical company Moderna has underscored multi-decadal and seminal contributions of Indian Americans to the world of science. Given the nature of their work, thousands of Indian American scientists have been making transformative contributions away from the media glare. Some of those contributions have been described in a recently released book Kamala Harris and the Rise of Indian Americans.
From pioneering the theory of loop quantum gravity, as in the case of Dr. Abhay Ashtekar, to engineering oil-eating bacteria, as by the late Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, and from monitoring a rover on Mars, as in the case of Dr. Ashwin Vasavada of NASA, to interpreting the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis, as in the case of the late Nobel laureate Dr. Har Gobind Khorana, Indian American scientists have strad
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Mani Lal Bhaumik
Bengali American physicist (born )
Mani Lal Bhaumik (born 30 March ) is an Indian American physicist and an internationally bestselling author, celebrated lecturer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Mani Lal Bhaumik was born in a Bengali[3]Mahishya family on 30 March in a small village in Tamluk and attended the Kola Union High School.[4][5][6] His father Gunodhar[3] Bhaumik was a notable freedom fighter. As a teenager, Bhaumik spent some time with Mahatma Gandhi in his Mahisadal camp. In his boyhood Mani Lal was hugely influenced bygd freedom fighter Matangini Hazra, popularly known as Old Lady Gandhi.[6]
He received a degree from Scottish Church College and an grad from the Rajabazar Science College campus of University of Calcutta. He won the attention of Satyendra Nath Bose (creator of the Bose–Einstein statistics) who encouraged his prodigious curios
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Raj Reddy
Indian-American computer scientist (born )
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June ) is an Indian-Americancomputer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.[4] He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He was the founding chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He was the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, in , sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
Early life and education
[edit]Raj Reddy was born in a Telugu speaking Telugu family[5] in Katur village of Chi