Vikram Sarabhai
1919 CE–1971 CE · Ahmedabad
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 – 30 December 1971) was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped to develop nuclear power in India. Often regarded as the "Father of Indian space program", Sarabhai was honored with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 1972.
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- Louis de Broglie· 1892 CE–1987 CE
- Pyotr Kapitsa· 1894 CE–1984 CE
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin· 1900 CE–1979 CE
- Linus Pauling· 1901 CE–1994 CE
- Werner Heisenberg· 1901 CE–1976 CE
- Paul Dirac· 1902 CE–1984 CE
- Barbara McClintock· 1902 CE–1992 CE
- Eugene Wigner· 1902 CE–1995 CE
- Andrey Kolmogorov· 1903 CE–1987 CE
- Ernest Walton· 1903 CE–1995 CE
- Emilio Segrè· 1905 CE–1989 CE
- Ernst Chain· 1906 CE–1979 CE
- Kurt Gödel· 1906 CE–1978 CE
- Grace Hopper· 1906 CE–1992 CE
- Albert Sabin· 1906 CE–1993 CE
- André Weil· 1906 CE–1998 CE
- Hideki Yukawa· 1907 CE–1981 CE
- John Bardeen· 1908 CE–1991 CE
- Lev Landau· 1908 CE–1968 CE
- William Shockley· 1910 CE–1989 CE
- Dorothy Hodgkin· 1910 CE–1994 CE
- Wernher von Braun· 1912 CE–1977 CE
- Robert Burns Woodward· 1917 CE–1979 CE
- Rosalind Franklin· 1920 CE–1958 CE
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- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Zhou Enlai· 1898 CE–1976 CE
- Puyi (Xuantong Emperor)· 1906 CE–1967 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
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