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Heroes in Science & Engineering

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Moti Lal Madan

An animal scientist whose team produced the world's first IVF buffalo calf, Pratham, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022.

  • Padma Shri 2022
  • Haryana
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Narayan Chakrabarty

A Kolkata chemist who has researched the problem of arsenic in groundwater for decades and edited a major book on it, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2024.

  • Padma Shri 2024
  • West Bengal
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Prem Lal Gautam

A plant breeder who helped draft India's biodiversity and farmers' rights laws and chaired the authorities that run them, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2026.

  • Padma Shri 2026
  • Himachal Pradesh
Purnima Devi Barman receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar in 2018

Purnima Devi Barman

An Assam wildlife biologist who turned village women into the "Hargila Army", protecting the greater adjutant stork and helping its numbers recover.

  • Mann Ki Baat #135
  • Assam
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Ram Chander Sihag

A Hisar bee scientist who helped beekeeping with European honeybees spread across India's hot, dry regions, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2024.

  • Padma Shri 2024
  • Haryana
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Ram Chet Chaudhary

An agricultural scientist who bred rice varieties worldwide and helped save Kalanamak, a heritage rice, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2024.

  • Padma Shri 2024
  • Uttar Pradesh
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Ronaldo Laishram

A Manipur-born astrophysicist in Japan who led the discovery of an early-universe galaxy protocluster and named it after Loktak Lake.

  • Mann Ki Baat #136
  • Manipur
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Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

A computer scientist in machine learning and computational biology who heads the Indian Statistical Institute; Padma Shri, 2022.

  • Padma Shri 2022
  • West Bengal
Portrait of Shailesh Nayak

Shailesh Nayak

An earth scientist who set up India's tsunami early-warning system and led the Ministry of Earth Sciences, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2024.

  • Padma Shri 2024
  • Delhi
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Shubha Venkatesha Iyengar

A CSIR-NAL scientist who developed the Drishti runway visibility system used at Indian airports, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2026.

  • Padma Shri 2026
  • Karnataka
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Subbanna Ayyappan

A fisheries scientist who became the first non-crop scientist to head the ICAR, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2022. He died in 2025.

  • Padma Shri 2022
  • Karnataka
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Surinder Kumar Vasal

A maize scientist who co-won the 2000 World Food Prize for developing protein-rich maize, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2025.

  • Padma Shri 2025
  • Delhi
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V. Kamakoti

The director of IIT Madras, who led the team behind SHAKTI, India's first indigenous microprocessor, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2026.

  • Padma Shri 2026
  • Tamil Nadu