PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

"The Academy, founded in 1934, aims at promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science in pure and applied branches. Major activities include publication of scientific journals and special volumes, organizing meetings of the Fellowship and discussions on important topics, recognizing scientific talent, improvement of science education and taking up other issues of concern to the scientific community."

Official Website:
http://www.ias.ac.in/

Location:
Bangalore, India

Founding Date:
1934

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Nicolaas Bloembergen	Physicist	11-Mar-1920		Nonlinear optics
Max Born	Physicist	11-Dec-1882	5-Jan-1970	Pioneer of quantum mechanics
J. C. Bose	Botanist	30-Nov-1858	23-Nov-1937	Plant physiology
Percy Williams Bridgman	Physicist	21-Apr-1882	20-Aug-1961	High-pressure physics
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
Harvey Cushing	Doctor	8-Apr-1869	7-Oct-1939	Cushing's Syndrome
Paul Dirac	Physicist	8-Aug-1902	20-Oct-1984	The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
Gerhard Herzberg	Physicist	25-Dec-1904	3-Mar-1999	Molecular spectroscopy
Antony Hewish	Astronomer	11-May-1924		Co-Discoverer of pulsars
Jaroslav Heyrovsky	Chemist	20-Dec-1890	27-Mar-1967	Polarography
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	Chemist	12-May-1910	29-Jul-1994	Determined structure of Vitamin B12
Pyotr Kapitsa	Physicist	8-Jul-1894	8-Apr-1984	Discovered superfluidity
Paul Karrer	Chemist	21-Apr-1889	18-Jun-1971	Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K
Jean-Marie Lehn	Chemist	30-Sep-1939		Synthesis of molecules
Robert S. Mulliken	Chemist	7-Jun-1896	31-Oct-1986	Molecular orbital theory
Ilya Prigogine	Chemist	25-Jan-1917	28-May-2003	Theory of dissipative structures
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Scientist	1952		Ribosomes
C. N. R. Rao	Chemist	30-Jun-1934		Chemistry of superconductivity
Nikolay Semyonov	Chemist	15-Apr-1896	25-Sep-1986	Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
The Svedberg	Chemist	30-Aug-1884	25-Feb-1971	Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
Robert B. Woodward	Chemist	10-Apr-1917	8-Jul-1979	Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.
Hideki Yukawa	Physicist	23-Jan-1907	8-Sep-1981	Predicted existence of mesons

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