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Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their space startup Nebula Space Organisation, using affordable local materials and groundbreaking innovation.

Discover the inspiring achievements of India’s Nobel Prize winners, celebrated globally for their contributions in multiple fields.

Here’s the story of why a hospital in Hyderabad was renamed after the renowned Sir Ronald Ross, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1902.

Joseph Madiath was a mere boy of six when he organised the labourers at his father’s rubber plantation. And he hasn't stopped since!

Did you know that Meghnad Saha was never awarded the Prize despite seven nominations? Or that SN Bose missed it even after five consecutive nominations? #ForgottenHeroes #IndiansInScience

Overlooked for long, these people laid the pioneering stones upon which India’s scientific legacy has been built. It’s time more Indians knew about their story! #ForgottenHeroes #IndiansInScience

Nominated for the #NobelPrize, this unsung pioneer also identified a new disease, which is now named in his honour as Brahmachari Leishmanoid. Furthermore, he also set up India's first blood bank! #ForgottenHeroes #IndiansInScience

"De died in 1985 unhonoured and unsung in India's scientific circles. That our Academies did not see it fit to elect him to their Fellowships must rank as one of the most glaring omissions of our time."

For his pioneering work on ribosomes, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009.

"Sirkar belonged to that group of scientists who may not have made discoveries or inventions but influenced the development of science in India by training a number of students."