Indian Scientists have played an important role in the development of India. They have made India proud with their scientific achievements. Many Indian scientists have received international awards and have been felicitated for their inventions. All these have made India one of the scientific powerhouses of the world. Their discoveries and inventions have been appreciated all over the world.

C.V. Raman is one of the most renowned scientists produced by India and also a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work on scattering of light. Homi Bhaba was a famous Indian atomic scientist and was the Chairman of the first United Nations Conference on the peaceful uses of Atomic Energy. He is also the founder of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose was an eminent Indian scientist and the first to discover that plants have life. Father of the Indian Space Programme, Vikram Sarabhai was an eminent Indian scientist who was instrumental in setting up the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a Nobel laureate and won accolades for his work in astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. Other notable Indian scientists are, Satyendra Bose, Meghnad Shah, M. Visvesvaraya, Dr.Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, S. Ramanujan, J.C.Bose, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Dr. H. Khorana, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman among the many others.