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Our Science and Technology Heritage gallery for the National Science Centre in Delhi; A brief introduction to technological brilliance of Ancient India (Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage) Science and Technology in Ancient India Archived 2015-05-01 at the Wayback Machine; India: Science and technology, U.S. Library of Congress.
[210] [211] Pingala found the number of metres that had long notes and short notes; this is equivalent to finding the binomial coefficients. Jain texts define five different types of infinity – the infinite in one direction, the infinite in two directions, the infinite in area, the infinite everywhere, and the infinite perpetually.
However, according to former Indian science and technology minister Kapil Sibal, India is lagging in science and technology compared to developed countries. [4] India has only 140 researchers per 1,000,000 population, compared to 4,651 in the United States. [4] India invested US$3.7 billion in science and technology in 2002–2003. [5]
Mylswamy Annadurai is an Indian scientist working as vice president for Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, [1] [2] Chairman, Board of Governors, National Design and Research Forum. He is often dubbed as the "Moon Man of India".
The field has a long history in India that goes back to the late 1970s, with the works of Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Irfan Habib, J.P.S. Uberoi, [1] [2] Ashis Nandy, [3] [4] Vandana Shiva, [5] Claude Alvares [6] [7] and Shiv Visvanathan [8] [9] However, there is a first generation of scholars from the 1970s who looked at science and technology (and not from the purview of post-Kuhnian STS ...
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India.It was established in May 1971 to promote new areas of science and technology and to play the role of a nodal department for organising, coordinating and promoting scientific and technological activities in the country.
An Act to declare certain institutions of technology, science education and research to be Institutions of national importance and to provide for instructions and research in branches of engineering, technology, management, education, sciences and arts and for the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge in such branches and for certain other matters connected with such institutions.
In independent India, he was the President of the Indian Chemical Society, National Institute of Sciences of India and the Indian National Science Congress. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1954. [10] An Indian science award, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology was created in his honour. [6]