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(1) Nagarjuna, (2) Rishi Bharadvaj, (3) Aryabhatta, (4) Jagadish Chandra Vasu, (5) Chandrashekhara Venkataramana, (6) Ramanuja ( together with the scientists mentioned in the previous shloka ) are the wise persons to be reckoned with. Nagarjuna
Bharadvaja
Arya Bhatta
Jagadisa Candra Vasu
Born in East Bengal, a great scientist of India, Jagadish Chandra Vasu ( Basu ) had a deep interest in the sciences of Botany and Physics. After having his studies in England, Vasu returned to India in the Kaliyuga year 4986 ( 1885 A.D ) and started work as a professor of Physics in the Presidency College, Calcutta. He made a machine to produce electro-magnetic radio waves. In Kaliyuga year 4996 ( 1895 A.D. ), with the help of these waves he made a telephone ring sound at a distance of 75 feet. Marconi by developing the use of these waves brought out the invention of radio. Vasu then, with the use of the scientific appliances ( apparatus ) proved that the plants too have life ( sajivata ) in them and are capable of reaction and response i.e have Pratikriyasilata ( respondability ) them. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of London. In the Kaliyuga year 5018( 1917 A.D.) he established Bose Research Institute in Calcutta. Chandrasekhara Venkataraman
Very well-known scientist, a physicist who by working on reflection of light discovered a new phenomenon that came to be known after him as ' Raman-Effect 'and fetched him the Nobel Prize in physics, in 1930 A.D. Born in Trichanapalli ( in Tamilnadu ), Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman had his early education inWaltair ( Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh ) and higher education in the Presidency College, Madras. Thereafter he joined govt. service at a high position. But being research minded he continued doing research during spare time from his govt. job, at first, and later engaged himself fully in research work, left govt. job, became a professor of Physics in Calcutta University, Secretary of the Science Association and Fellow of the Royal Society of London and then the Director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He did all his research of the highest order staying in India only. He was a man with so much self-respect that he used to tell his students, " Do not go by the words of the foreigners till their truth is proved ? " Ramanujam
Born in Kumbhakonam city of Tanjaur district of the Madras state in 1887 A.D. Ramanujam was the son of Shrinivasa Ayanger, a poor but self-respecting individual. Ramanuja loved Mathematics. Even as a child, as student of the 4th class of the primary school, Ramanujam started taking interest in Trigonometry. Even as a student he had known many formulae of Mathematics by his own effort. On being known of his wonderful genius he was called up to be in England. There he did research in Mathematics with the co-operation of Prof. Hardy and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Because of his untiring hard work for research and of his not getting properly nourishing vegetarian food in England he died of Tuberculosis at a short age of 33 years. The areas of Mathematics to which Ramanujam made his special contribution are known as the theory of numbers, theory of division ( partition ) and the theory of continuous fractions. Even when he was about to die his brain was so awake that when some one made a mention of a car number 1729 he at once asserted, " Yes, I know this number. It is that smallest number which can be presented in two different ways as addition of two cubes : ( 10 to-the-power 3 + 9 to-the-power 3 ) and ( 12 to-the-power 3 + 1 to-the-power 3 )." |