Alfred Nobel | आल्फ्रेड नोबेल

Alfred Nobel (October 21, 1833 – December 10, 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist best known for inventing dynamite and for establishing the Nobel Prizes. His contributions to science and his dedication to promoting peace and humanitarian causes have had a profound i…

The Wright brothers | राईट बंधू

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. Their historic achievements in aviation marked a significant turning point in the history of transportation and technology. O…

Guglielmo Marconi | गुग्लिएल्मो मार्कोनी

"Guilielmo Marconi," was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work in the field of wireless telecommunication. Marconi is often credited with the development of the radio and the establishment of the first transatlantic wireless communication. Born on April 25, 1874…

Wernher Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (वॉन ब्रॉन: स्पेसचे स्वप्न पाहणारा, युद्धाचा अभियंता

Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with…

Vikram Sarabhai - Father of Indian Space Programme

Vikram Sarabhai, the renaissance man of Indian science, visualized the impossible and often made it happen. Founder of India's space programme, Vikram dreamed of communication satellites that would educate people at a time when even a modest rocket programme seemed daring; of huge agricultural comp…

Marie Curie

In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today, Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person. Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an X-Ray machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie. Any cancer patient who i…

Nicolaus Copernicus (निकोलस कोपर्निकस)

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a …

Galileo Galilei - Starry encounters

"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." - Galileo Galilei In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man-a genius-and the first to turn the telescope to the skies t…

Archimedes and the Eureka moments!

The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in this podcast. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the p…

Louis Pasteur - from the pastured morning milk to becoming the founder of microbiology

Louis Pasteur, a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist, had made some remarkable discoveries in the field of science. He was the first scientist to create vaccines for fowl cholera; anthrax, a major livestock disease, and rabies. Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole.…