Tag: famous space scientists and astronauts

Louis Pasteur is known as father of microbiology. He was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist who his known for his discoveries of the principals of the vaccination, microbial fermentation an pasteurization. 

Dr. Vikram Sarabhai was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1966 for his immense contribution in the filed of space research and hence he is also called as the Father of Indian space research.

 Vikram Sarabhai did the experiment on the satellite industrial television.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha $\left( { 30 }^{ th }October,1909-{ 24 }^{ th }January,1966 \right) $ was widely considered as the "Father of India's Nuclear Science Program"

Vikram A Sarabhai designed "Aryabhatta" satellite. Sarabhai fabricated, designed and crafted the satellite and was launched in 1975 from Russia.

Guglielmo Marconi an Italian scientist discovered radio. He send and received his first radio signals in Italy in 1895.

The Indian Astronomical Observatory, located near Leh in Ladakh, India, has one of the world's highest located sites for optical, infrared and gamma-ray telescopes. It is operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.

The first telescope was made by Hans Lippershey in the early 1600s. He was a German-Dutch glassmaker, and he managed to reduce the amount of light in his telescope while focusing it. His model inspired other scientists to work on perfecting the telescope.

The Vainu Bappu Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located at Kavaloore in the Javadi Hills, near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.