Biographical Dictionary of Indian Scientists: From Ancient to Contemporary

The Biographical Dictionary of Indian Scientists aims to record all possible facts about achievements of the ancient to the contemporary scientists of India. It unravels the history of Indian science through brief biographical notes on scientists. Remarkable scientific achievements of hundreds of human minds have been gathered herein quite comprehensively. Special effort has been taken to enlist addresses and telephone numbers of contemporary scientists so that the database serves as a "roster of scientific personnel. The work profiles a database of over 2,000 men and women of science who helped shape modern India. The scientists whose lives and works are described span from antiquity to the present date. Portrait photographs of about 1,000 scientists help enhance the appeal and usefulness of the collection.