50 Timeless Scientists

Here we have scientists who missed Nobel Prize and those whom Nobel missed. A Nobel Prize awarded to Pauling was branded as an insult! But he is the only one to receive two unshared Nobels. Bardeen returned to Swedish king for another Nobel as if to fulfill earlier promise. Ironically an Agricultural Scientist received a Nobel Peace Prize. Yes! What is peace without food? An anguished Barbara Mc Clintock refused to publish her papers, but Nobel committee discovered her. Then we have scientists who received awards in prison cells, scientists who made discoveries in the prison cells. Tesla was thrown out of his labs, cheated by another great man but his alternating current runs our homes now. Carlson went from pillar to post with his photocopy machine and it is now the Xerox. Townes had a revelation for LASER on a park bench. When Maiman made it practical, a Hollywood actress, Bette Davis wondered if it is a death Ray. Medicines from Jenner, Pasteur and the like consigned some diseases to history. If only Subba Rao had lived a few years more, he would have killed some more diseases. A trio of scientists transformed the twentieth century by inventing the transistor. To top it, a scientist who was not allowed to go on a holiday invented the microchip. "New York Times" reversed its ridicule ladled out on a rocket scientist after 40 years only after man landed on the moon. A school teacher testified in the court to save his old student, Fansworth for his rightful invention, the television. Davy openly declared his student as his greatest discovery, Michael Faraday! You have them all! This title includes biographies that educate and entertain too. Cover 1 PREFACE 4 Contents 8 AMAR BOSE 10 ARYABHATTA 14 BARBARA MCCLINTOCK 18 BENJAMIN PEARY PAL 22 BHASKARACHARYA 24 C. N. R. RAO 28 C. R. RAO 32 CHARLES GOODYEAR 36 CHARLES H. TOWNES 40 CHARLES KETTERING 42 CHESTER CARLSON 46 E.C.G. SUDARSHAN 50 EDWARD JENNER 54 FELIX HOFFMAN 57 HOWARD FLOREY 60 HUMPHREY DAVY 64 J.B.S. HALDANE 66 JACK KILBY 70 JAYANT VISHNU NARLIKA 74 JOHN BAROEEN 78 JONAS SALK 82 LINUS PAULING 86 LOUIS JEAN PASTEUR 90 M S SWAM I NATHAN 94 MEGHNAD SAHA 98 NIELS BOHR 102 NIKOLA TESLA 106 NORMAN BORLAUG 110 P. C. MAHALANOBIS 114 PHILO FARNSWORTH 116 RAJA RAMANNA 120 ROBERT H. GODDARD 124 RONALD ROSS 132 S. CHANDRASEKHAR 136 SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR 140 SIGMUND FREUD 144 SUSHRUTA 146 ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI 150 THEODORE H. MAIMAN 154 TIM BERNERS-LEE 158 M. K. VAINU BAPPU 160 VARAHAMIHIRA 164 VIKRAM SARABHAI 166 WALTER BRATTAIN 170 WASHINGTON CARVER 174 WILLIAM SHOCKLEY 178 WILSON GREATBATCH 182 WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI 186 YELLAPRAGADA SUBBA RAO 190 Back Cover 194 scanned,to,PDF,by,gnv64 scanned to PDF by gnv64