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Eminent Indian Botanists: Past and Present: Biographies and Contributions
The book includes the biographies and contributions of 75 eminent Indian Botanists and explains the foundations of Botany in India and its development from 16th century into modern times. The biographies mentioned herein include those plant explorers of the East India Company like Garcia d’Orta, Hendrik A. Van Rheede and H. F. C. Cleghorn who laid the foundations to Tropical Medical Botany. This also includes the biographies of the scientists of British India like E. Blatter, E.J. Butler, George Bentham, J. Dalton Hooker, N. Wallich, R. H. Beddome, Robert Wight, W. Dudgeon and W. Roxburgh who were responsible for the establishment of many botanic gardens, herbaria and research institutes in India and also worked for the development of Botany in the sub-continent. The biographies of eminent Indian-born American Botanists such as Govindjee and I. K. Vasil are also included. The bo
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List of Indian scientists
The following article is a list of Indian scientists spanning from Ancient to Modern India, who have had a major impact in the field of science and technology.
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Ancient India (Pre BCE)
[edit]- Lagadha, astronomer, author of one of the oldest known treatises on astrology (around late 2nd millennium BCE and early 1st millennium BCE)
- Baudhayana, mathematician, author of oldest surviving texts of Indian mathematics (around 1st millennium BCE)
- Atreya, physician, one of founding father of ayurveda (around 6th century BCE)
- Jivaka, physician, widely regarded as a model healer in the Eastern world during ancient times (5th century BCE)
- Sushruta, father of plastic surgery, author of Sushruta Samhita which fryst vatten one of the most important ancient medical treatise (– BCE)
- Panini, father of linguistics