Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yash Pal was fascinated by the logic required to solve geometrical problems. He says in his biography that he would have missed this joy if he had not discovered it on his own.

Rural dairy farmers in India produce about 102 million gallons of milk every year. Transporting this milk to the processing centres of different dairies without refrigeration and reliable electricity is difficult. Two men from the US came to India to solve this problem.

India-born scientist Ramesh Raskar was awarded $ 500,000, one of the world’s largest single cash awards for invention, for his path breaking work on an ultra-fast imaging camera that can see around corners, eyecare solutions and a camera that can read closed books.

28-year-old SSampriti Bhattacharyya who hails from Kolkata, has designed an underwater drone that can map ocean floors at places where GPS does not work.