Scientists from Gujarat

The list Scientists from Gujarat includes Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Chandrakant T. Patel, P. C. Vaidya and J. J. Rawal. The list consists of 33 members and 4 sublists.

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Gujarat

State in western India

Engineers from Gujarat
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Medical doctors from Gujarat
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Scientists from Ahmedabad
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Women scientists from Gujarat
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Hansa Jivraj Mehta

Indian activist

Overview: Hansa Jivraj Mehta (3 July 1897 – 4 April 1995) was a reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer from India.

Date of birth: 3 July 1897

Date of death: 4 April 1995

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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20th-century women educators 647T

Women educators from Chandigarh 4T

Women educators from Gujarat 16T
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Jivraj Narayan Mehta

Indian politician

Overview: Jivraj Narayan Mehta (29 August 1887 – 7 November 1978) was an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He served as the first "Dewan" (Prime Minister) of the erstwhile Baroda state ...

Date of birth: 1887

Date of death: 7 November 1978

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Politician

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Medical doctors from Gujarat 16T

Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in public affairs 74T

Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat 62T
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P. C. Vaidya

Indian scientist

Overview: Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya (P.C.Vaidya; 23 May 1918 – 12 March 2010), was an Indian physicist and mathematician, renowned for his instrumental work in the general theory of relativity. Apart from his s ...

Date of birth: 23 May 1918

Date of death: 12 March 2010

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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20th-century Indian physicists 240T

Gujarat University faculty 15T

Presidents of the Indian Mathematical Society 18T
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Chandrakant T. Patel

Indian scientist

Overview: Chandrakant T. Patel, (11 July 1917 – 25 December 1990) was a cotton scientist, who developed the first commercial cotton hybrid, known as Hybrid-4 (Sankar-4), in 1970, which was later cultivated comm ...

Date of birth: 11 July 1917

Date of death: 25 December 1990

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Scientist

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Textile industry in Gujarat 15T

Science and technology in Gujarat 12T

People from Kheda district 25T
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J. J. Rawal

Indian astronomer

Overview: Jitendra Jatashankar Rawal (born 30 March 1943) is an Indian astrophysicist and scientific educator, recognized for his work in the popularisation of science.

Date of birth: 30 March 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Scientist

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20th-century Indian astronomers 26T

People from Surendranagar district 32T

Indian scientists 282T
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Bhāskara I

7th-century Indian mathematician

Overview: Bhāskara (c. – c.) (commonly called Bhaskara I to avoid confusion with the 12th-century mathematician Bhāskara II) was a 7th-century mathematician and astronomer, who was the first to write numbers in ...

Occupation: Mathematician

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Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala

Overview: Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala (1909–1998) was an Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer, considered by many as the father of Indian Agricultural Economics. He was a Gandhian and an Indian in ...

Date of birth: 18 September 1909

Date of death: 8 October 1998

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Activist

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Indian economics writers 23T

Indian agricultural economists 11T

20th-century Indian economists 190T
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Uma Chakravarti

Indian historian and filmmaker

Overview: Uma Chakravarti (born 20 August 1941) is an Indian historian and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1980s, Chakravarti wrote extensively on Indian history indulging with issues relating to gender, caste, and ...

Date of birth: 20 August 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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Mount Carmel College, Bangalore alumni 32T

Women educators from Delhi 32T

Educators from Delhi 32T
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Shailesh Nayak

Indian oceanographer

Overview: Shailesh Nayak (born 21 August 1953) is an Indian scientist and is currently Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and Distinguished Scientist in the Ministry of Earth Sciences. He was ...

Date of birth: 21 August 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Scientist

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Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji

Ornithologist, environmentalist

Overview: Raol Shree Dharmakumarsinhji (April 1917 – January 1986) was an Indian ornithologist, environmentalist and writer as well as a ruling prince. His elder brother Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsinhji was the last ...

Date of birth: April 1917

Date of death: January 1986

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Photographer

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Photographers from Gujarat 10T

Indian nature photographers 11T

20th-century naturalists 229T
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Padma Desai

Economist

Overview: Padma Desai (October 12, 1931 – April 29, 2023) was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of comparative economic systems and director ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1931

Date of death: 29 April 2023

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Economist

Gender: Female

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2023 deaths 2,363T

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1,009T

American women memoirists 721T
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Vijayaraji

Ruler of Kutch from 1942–1948

Overview: Maharajadhiraj Mirza Maharao Sri Sir Vijayarajaji Khengarji Sawai Bahadur, GBE (2 September 1885 – 26 February 1948) was the ruling Rao of Cutch from 1942 to his death in 1948.

Date of birth: 2 September 1885

Date of death: 26 February 1948

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Philanthropist

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20th-century philanthropists 1,966T

19th-century Indian zoologists 6T

20th-century naturalists 229T
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Ardaseer Cursetjee

Engineer

Overview: Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia FRS (6 October 1808 – 16 November 1877) was an Indian shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia ship building family.

Date of birth: 6 October 1808

Date of death: 16 November 1877

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

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Wadia family 17T

19th-century Indian engineers 11T

Parsi people from Mumbai 198T
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Bhagvat Singh

Indian Maharaja

Overview: Bhagvatsinhji GCSI GCIE FRSE FRCP (24 October 1865 – 9 March 1944) was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal from 1869 till his death in 1944, upon which he was honoured with 11-gun salute ...

Date of birth: 24 October 1865

Date of death: 9 March 1944

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

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Medical doctors from Gujarat 16T

19th-century British male writers 668T

19th-century Indian non-fiction writers 23T
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Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai

British economist and politician (born 1940)

Overview: Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940), is a British economist and Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. He ...

Date of birth: 10 July 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Economist

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Indian emigrants to England 132T

Indian institute directors 41T

Labour Friends of Israel 152T
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Jayakrishna Indraji

Indian botanist

Overview: Jayakrishna Indraji (sometimes spelled Jaikrishna or referred to as Jayakrishna Indraji Thaker) (1 October 1849 – 3 December 1929) was an Indian botanist and ethno-botanist from the Princely state of ...

Occupation: Scientist

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Kanu Gandhi (scientist)

Indian scientist

Overview: Kanu Gandhi (1928 – 7 November 2016) was an Indian scientist. He was a son of Ramdas Gandhi, thus a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

Date of birth: 1928

Date of death: 7 November 2016

Age: 88 (age at death)

Occupation: Scientist

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American male scientists of Indian descent 149T

2016 deaths 9,448T

Mahatma Gandhi family 22T
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Sudhir V. Shah

Indian neurologist

Overview: Sudhir V. Shah is an Indian neurologist, professor and the head of the department of neurology at Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad. Holder of an MD in general medicine and a DM in neurology ...

Date of birth: 14 September 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Writer

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Medical doctors from Gujarat 16T

Indian Jain writers 4T

Recipients of the Padma Shri in medicine 196T
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Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta

Overview: Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta (1905–1997) was an Indian surgeon, institution builder and medical academic, who established the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai. His contributions were also reported ...

Date of birth: 10 January 1905

Date of death: 21 June 1997

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Activist

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Bhagwan Lal Indraji

Indian archaeologist and scholar

Overview: Bhagwan Lal Indraji or Bhagwanlal Indraji (1839-1888) was an Indian archaeologist and scholar. A member of the Royal Asiatic Society's Bombay branch, he made transcripts of several ancient Indian insc ...

Date of birth: 8 November 1839

Date of death: 16 March 1888

Age: 48 (age at death)

Occupation: Archaeologist

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19th-century Indian historians 44T

19th-century Indian archaeologists 8T

20th-century Indian archaeologists 73T