Saturday, 3 December 2016

Astronomy - Famous Indian Astronomers

Astronomy - Famous Indian Astronomers 




List of notable or famous astronomers from India, with bios and photos, including the top astronomers born in India and even some popular astronomers who immigrated to India. If you're trying to find out the names of famous Indian astronomers then this list is the perfect resource for you. These astronomers are among the most prominent in their field, and information about each well-known astronomer from India is included when available. 

The list you're viewing is made up of different people like Jayant Narlikar and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. 

This historic astronomers from India list can help answer the questions "Who are some Indian astronomers of note?" and "Who are the most famous astronomers from India?" These prominent astronomers of India may or may not be currently alive, but what they all have in common is that they're all respected Indian astronomers.

Use this list of renowned Indian astronomers to discover some new astronomers that you aren't familiar with. Don't forget to share this list by clicking one of the social media icons at the top or bottom of the page. (10 items)

1Amil Kumar Das



Amil Kumar Das is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Amil Kumar Das was an Indian astronomer. During the International Geophysical Year, observatories in Madrid, India, and Manila were responsible for monitoring solar effects. The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory in South India performed this monitoring using their recently built solar tunnel telescope....more
about...Age: Died at 59 (1902-1961)Profession: Astronomer

2Aryabhata



Aryabhata is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Aryabhata or Aryabhata I was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya and the Arya-siddhanta. ...more
about...Age: Died at 74 (476-550)Birthplace: AssakaProfession: Mathematician, Astronomer

3Bhāskara II



Bhāskara II is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Bhāskara, was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Bijapur in modern Karnataka. Bhāskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India. His main work ...more
about...Age: Died at 71 (1114-1185)Birthplace: Bijapur, IndiaProfession: Mathematician, Astronomer

4Fathullah Shirazi



Fathullah Shirazi is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Fathullah Shirazi, sometimes referred to as Amir Fathullah Shirazi, was a Persian-Indian polymath—a scholar, Islamic jurist, finance minister, mechanical engineer, inventor, mathematician, astronomer, physician, philosopher and artist—who worked for Akbar, ruler of the Mughal Empire. Shirazi was ...more
about...Profession: Mathematician, Scholar, Inventor, Mechanical engineer Physician, + more

5Jayant Narlikar



Jayant Narlikar is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is a proponent of steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Mach's Principle. It proposes that ...more
about...Age: 77Birthplace: Kolhapur, IndiaProfession: Physicist, Cosmologist, Astronomer

6L. D. Swamikannu Pillai



L. D. Swamikannu Pillai is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Diwan Bahadur Lewis Dominic Swamikannu Pillai CIE was an Indian politician, historian, linguist, astronomer and administrator who served as the second President of the Madras Legislative Council. ...more
about...Age: Died at 60 (1865-1925)Profession: Politician, Philosopher, Astronomer

7Madhava of Sangamagrama



Madhava of Sangamagrama is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Madhava of Sangamagrama, was an Indian mathematician-astronomer from the town of Sangamagrama, Kerala, India. He is considered the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He was the first to use infinite series approximations for a range of trigonometric functions, which has been...more
about...Age: Died at 75 (1350-1425)Birthplace: Kerala, IndiaProfession: Mathematician, Astronomer

8Meghnad Saha



Meghnad Saha is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list Famous Astronomers from India
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Meghnad Saha FRS was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. ...more
about...Age: Died at 63 (1893-1956)Birthplace: Dhaka, BangladeshProfession: Physicist, Astronomer

9Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar



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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS, was an Indian American astrophysicist born in Lahore, Punjab. Chandrasekhar was awarded, along with William A. Fowler, the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics, with Chandrasekhar cited for his mathematical theory of the physical processes of importance to the structure and ...more
about...Age:Died at 85 (1910-1995)Birthplace:Lahore, PakistanProfession:Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, Astronomer

10Varāhamihira



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Varāhamihira, also called Varaha or Mihir, was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He was born in Avanti region, roughly corresponding to modern-day Malwa, to Adityadasa, who was himself an astronomer. According to one of his own works, he was educated at Kapitth ...more
about...Age:Died at 82 (505-587)Birthplace:Ujjain, IndiaProfession:Mathematician, Astrologer, Astronomer

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