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Top 100 Scientists in India

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The most famous scientists in India right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	H. C. Verma	India	Scientists	70.0	0.0
#2	—	C. V. Raman	India	Scientists	69.8	0.7
#3	—	Aryabhata	India	Scientists	68.8	6.7
#4	—	Satyendra Nath Bose	India	Scientists	65.0	7.1
#5	—	Homi Jehangir Bhabha	India	Scientists	60.4	9.0
#6	—	Vikram Sarabhai	India	Scientists	58.5	8.3
#7	—	Abdul Qadeer Khan	India	Scientists	56.1	0.0
#8	—	Narinder Singh Kapany	India	Scientists	54.8	5.4
#9	—	Janaki Ammal	India	Scientists	54.6	17.1
#10	—	Asima Chatterjee	India	Scientists	53.7	4.7
#11	—	Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao	India	Scientists	53.7	0.0
#12	—	Ashoke Sen	India	Scientists	53.7	4.1
#13	—	Arunachalam Muruganantham	India	Scientists	53.2	0.0
#14	—	Jayant Vishnu Narlikar	India	Scientists	53.1	0.0
#15	—	E. C. George Sudarshan	India	Scientists	53.0	2.9
#16	—	Nikesh Arora	India	Scientists	52.7	5.8
#17	—	Yajnavalkya	India	Scientists	52.5	0.4
#18	—	Jamling Tenzing Norgay	India	Scientists	52.3	7.2
#19	—	Darshan Ranganathan	India	Scientists	52.2	2.6
#20	—	Sivan Kailasavadivoo	India	Scientists	52.0	11.8
#21	—	Raja Ramanna	India	Scientists	51.6	2.1
#22	—	Yellapragada Subbarow	India	Scientists	51.4	0.0
#23	—	Sunetra Gupta	India	Scientists	51.3	6.4
#24	—	Jainendra K. Jain	India	Scientists	51.0	10.0
#25	—	AK Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri	India	Scientists	50.5	10.0
#26	—	Abhay Ashtekar	India	Scientists	50.1	3.3
#27	—	NH Nandini Harinath	India	Scientists	49.7	2.4
#28	—	Kallam Anji Reddy	India	Scientists	49.7	9.9
#29	—	Rahibai Soma Popere	India	Scientists	49.5	20.5
#30	—	Priyamvada Natarajan	India	Scientists	49.2	4.7
#31	—	Rajiv Dixit	India	Scientists	49.2	0.0
#32	—	Ajay Bhatt	India	Scientists	49.0	0.2
#33	—	Koppillil Radhakrishnan	India	Scientists	49.0	0.4
#34	—	Ritu Karidhal	India	Scientists	48.6	1.2
#35	—	Pathani Samanta	India	Scientists	48.6	10.0
#36	—	Yash Pal	India	Scientists	48.6	2.0
#37	—	Vainu Bappu	India	Scientists	48.6	10.0
#38	—	Rohini Godbole	India	Scientists	48.5	11.5
#39	—	Shiraz Minwalla	India	Scientists	48.3	4.5
#40	—	Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar	India	Scientists	48.2	2.0
#41	—	Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon	India	Scientists	48.1	0.0
#42	—	Raghunath Anant Mashelkar	India	Scientists	48.1	0.7
#43	—	Bibha Chowdhuri	India	Scientists	47.6	0.0
#44	—	KG Kanu Gandhi	India	Scientists	47.6	1.3
#45	—	Venkatraman Radhakrishnan	India	Scientists	47.6	3.6
#46	—	Shankar Balasubramanian	India	Scientists	47.1	0.0
#47	—	Kavita Ramdas	India	Scientists	47.1	7.3
#48	—	GK Gagandeep Kang	India	Scientists	47.0	0.0
#49	—	Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan	India	Scientists	46.4	0.0
#50	—	Romulus Whitaker	India	Scientists	46.4	2.3
#51	—	Panchanan Maheshwari	India	Scientists	46.2	8.6
#52	—	Thanu Padmanabhan	India	Scientists	46.1	0.0
#53	—	Krishna Ella	India	Scientists	46.1	4.6
#54	—	Hakim Abdul Hameed	India	Scientists	45.9	4.5
#55	—	Tathagat Avatar Tulsi	India	Scientists	45.8	0.8
#56	—	Maharaj Kishan Bhan	India	Scientists	45.3	15.0
#57	—	Subir Sachdev	India	Scientists	45.1	6.0
#58	—	Jnan Chandra Ghosh	India	Scientists	45.1	4.9
#59	—	C. Kumar N. Patel	India	Scientists	44.3	0.0
#60	—	MR Minal Rohit	India	Scientists	44.2	10.2
#61	—	KK Krithi Karanth	India	Scientists	44.2	0.0
#62	—	Obaid Siddiqi	India	Scientists	44.1	1.7
#63	—	B. Jayant Baliga	India	Scientists	43.8	0.0
#64	—	KV K. Venkataraman	India	Scientists	43.8	6.5
#65	—	Rajesh Gopakumar	India	Scientists	43.6	0.0
#66	—	Rajeshwari Chatterjee	India	Scientists	43.6	0.0
#67	—	Yamuna Krishnan	India	Scientists	43.5	1.7
#68	—	PK P. K. Iyengar	India	Scientists	43.5	8.3
#69	—	Debendra Mohan Bose	India	Scientists	43.3	0.8
#70	—	Uddhab Bharali	India	Scientists	43.2	23.2
#71	—	Sheela Balaji	India	Scientists	43.1	0.0
#72	—	Aneesur Rahman	India	Scientists	42.9	11.7
#73	—	Prana Krushna Parija	India	Scientists	42.8	16.9
#74	—	RB Radha Balakrishnan	India	Scientists	42.6	0.0
#75	—	K. VijayRaghavan	India	Scientists	42.6	0.0
#76	—	JC Joyanti Chutia	India	Scientists	42.5	12.9
#77	—	Swami Kuvalayananda	India	Scientists	42.4	0.7
#78	—	Mary Verghese	India	Scientists	42.1	2.8
#79	—	BN B. N. Suresh	India	Scientists	42.1	7.0
#80	—	Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar	India	Scientists	42.0	0.0
#81	—	SA Sheetal Amte	India	Scientists	41.9	1.6
#82	—	Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis	India	Scientists	41.9	6.6
#83	—	Sekhar Basu	India	Scientists	41.7	4.6
#84	—	AS Annapurni Subramaniam	India	Scientists	41.7	0.6
#85	—	Aparajita Datta	India	Scientists	41.6	9.2
#86	—	CV C. V. Vishveshwara	India	Scientists	41.6	8.5
#87	—	Humayun Abdulali	India	Scientists	41.5	3.4
#88	—	Raghavendra Gadagkar	India	Scientists	41.3	2.0
#89	—	NS Nigar Shaji	India	Scientists	41.0	0.0
#90	—	S. K. Shivakumar	India	Scientists	40.9	7.3
#91	—	Ajoy Ghatak	India	Scientists	40.4	0.0
#92	—	A. P. Balachandran	India	Scientists	40.2	15.0
#93	—	Piara Singh Gill	India	Scientists	40.1	0.0
#94	—	TS T. S. Kanaka	India	Scientists	40.0	0.0
#95	—	Vulimiri Ramalingaswami	India	Scientists	40.0	3.1
#96	—	Anil Kumar Das	India	Scientists	39.9	4.3
#97	—	NA Nitya Anand	India	Scientists	39.9	15.0
#98	—	Arvind Gupta	India	Scientists	39.9	0.0
#99	—	K. S. Manilal	India	Scientists	39.8	0.0
#100	—	Srikumar Banerjee	India	Scientists	39.7	0.0

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