FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

MAHARASHTRA & SIKKIM

By :- Pragyank Naonage
Class :- 10th A
MAHARASHTRA
 JAYANT NARLIKAR

• Born – 19 July 1938

Kolhapur, Kolhapur State
• Alma mater – BHU
Cambridge University
• Spouse – Mangala Narlikar
• Children – 3
• Awards - Smith’s Prize
Padma Bhushan
Adams Prize
Kalinga Prize
Padma Vibhushan
Prix Jules Janssen
Maharashtra Bhushan
Sahitya Akademi Award
RESEARCH
WORK
Quasi-steady-state Cosmology
• Proposed in 1993 by Fred Hoyle, Geoffrey Burbidge and Jayant Narlikar
• Suggests the universe expanding and evolving continuously, but also
maintaining a roughly steady state on large scales
• The universe is in a state of continuous creation and destruction of
matter
Hoyle-Narlikar Theory of Gravity
• Suggests the universe expands and contracts in cycles, known as
oscillatory cosmology
• Proposed as an alternative to Theory of Relativity
• Gravity is caused not only by curvature of space-time but also by
action of a ‘creation field’
 MANSUKH C. WANI

• Born – 20 February 1925

Nandurbar
• Died – 11 April 2020 [age 95]
• Alma Mater – University of Bombay
• Spouse – Ramila Wani
• Children – Son [Bankim]
• Awards – Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award
City of Medicine Award
NCI Award of Recognition
Charles F. Kettering Prize
RESEARCH WORK
Taxol
• Paclitaxel, an anticancer drug
• Isolated from Pacific Yew Tree
• Anticancer properties identified by Mansukh Wani and Monroe Wall
• Works by disrupting the microtubule structures within cancer cells, leading
to apoptosis
Camptothecin
• Isolated from Camptotheca Acuminata [Chinese]
• Inhibits the enzyme topoisomerase I, leading to DNA damage and cell death in
cancer cells
• Paved the way for development of novel cancer chemotherapeutic agents
SIKKIM
 JYOTI PRAKASH TAMANG

• Born – 16 November 1961

Darjeeling, West Bengal
• Alma Mater – Turnbull High School, Darjeeling
St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling
• Fields – Food Technology
Microbiology
• Awards – 1996 UN University Women’s Association Award
2004 N-BIOS Prize
2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Award
RESEARCH

• Pioneering research in ethnic fermented foods and beverages of

Himalayan regions
• Focusing on gastronomy, metataxonomic, metagenomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics,
predictive functionality, starter culture development, food safety, probiotics, whole genome
sequencing, nutrition and health benefits
• The findings have made significant paradigm shift from conventional
microbial taxonomy to sequence-based taxonomy providing info of many
functional micro-/mycobiome in ethnic fermented foods and beverages of
India
 SYED IQBAL HASNAIN

• Born – Unknown
Sikkim, India
• Occupation – Glaciologist
Educationist
• Years active – till 2010
• Awards – Padma Shri
RESEARCH

• Advocated impact of long-lived carbon dioxide and short-lived climate

forcers like black carbon, methane and ozone on Himalayan-Tibetan
glaciers
• 2009 article ‘Climate Change- The Tragedy of the Himalayas’ featured in Time
magazine
• Introducing glaciology as a subject at the post-graduate research
level
• Research papers in numerous journals like ‘Journal of Glaciology’ and ‘Journal
of Hydrology’.
THANK YOU