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Scientists of Modern India — Revision Notes
NIOS · Class 10 · Indian Culture and Heritage
Scientists of Modern India revision notes for NIOS Class 10 Indian Culture and Heritage: 4 topics in quick points.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Born on 22 December 1887 at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
- His parents shifted to Kumbakonam, 160 km from Chennai.
- He encountered G.S. Carr's book Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematic at the age of thirteen.
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C.V. Raman
- Born on 7 November 1888 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu.
- He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 and was the first Asian to receive it.
- He stood first in the IAAS Examination and became Assistant Accountant General at the age of nineteen.
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J.C. Bose
- Born on 30 November 1858 at Mymensingh, now in Bangladesh.
- He studied at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta.
- He refused salary at Presidency College because it was nearly half that of an Englishman.
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha
- Born on 30 October 1909 in a Parsi family.
- He received his doctorate from Cambridge in 1935.
- He is called the Father of Indian Nuclear Science.
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