List of Indian Bengali scientists

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List of the Greatest Influential Indian (British Indian Citizen and Indian Citizen) Bengali Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, Doctors and Economists

Rank	Name	Family	Field	Legacy and Remarks	Born	Died
1	Sir Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose	Bengali Hindu family, Bikrampur, Dhaka, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Physics and Biophysics	One of the Fathers of Radio Science (Wireless Communication/Technology), Father of Modern Science in India, first person in the world to use a Semiconductor Junction to detect Electromagnetic Waves, discoverer of Millimetre Wave (Extremely High Frequency/EHF/MMW), inventor of Crescograph	30 November 1858, Mymensingh, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	23 November 1937, Giridih, Bihar, now Jharkhand
2	Sir Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy	Bengali Hindu family, Khulna, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Chemistry	Father of Chemistry in India, discoverer of Mercurous Nitrite	2 August 1861, Khulna, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	16 June 1944, Calcutta, Bengal, now West Bengal
3	Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy	Bengali Hindu family, Khulna, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Medicine	National Doctors' Day in India is celebrated every year on July 1 to commemorate his birth anniversary, recipient of Bharat Ratna (1961), Chief Minister of West Bengal (1948-1962)	1 July 1882, Patna, Bengal, now Bihar	1 July 1962, Calcutta, West Bengal
4	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis	Bengali Hindu Brahmin family, Bikrampur, Dhaka, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Statistics	Father of Statistics in India, National Statistics Day in India is celebrated every year on June 29 to commemorate his birth anniversary, introducer of Mahalanobis Distance	29 June 1893, Calcutta, Bengal, now West Bengal	28 June 1972, Calcutta, West Bengal
5	Satyendra Nath Bose	Bengali Hindu family, Nadia, Bengal, now West Bengal	Mathematics and Physics	Most Genius Indian in the World Forever, Best Student of Indian Bengali Physicist Sir Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, when he (Satyendra Nath Bose) was a Reader (later made Professor by the recommendation of Albert Einstein) at the University of Dhaka (Bengal, now in Bangladesh/East Bengal), he developed the foundation of the Bose–Einstein Statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein Condensate in collaboration with European German Physicist Albert Einstein, although seven (7) Nobel Prizes in Physics were awarded for research related to Bose–Einstein Statistics and Bose–Einstein Condensate, he (Satyendra Nath Bose) himself was not awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics	1 January 1894, Calcutta, Bengal, now West Bengal	4 February 1974, Calcutta, West Bengal
6	Amartya Sen	Bengali Hindu family, Wari, Dhaka, Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Economics	Winner of Nobel Prize (Nobel Memorial Prize) in Economics (1998) for his contribution to Welfare Economics, only Indian (Indian Citizen) to win Nobel Prize (Nobel Memorial Prize) in Economics, recipient of Bharat Ratna (1999)	3 November 1933, Birbhum, Bengal, now West Bengal	-

List of the Greatest Influential Bangladeshi (British Indian Citizen, Pakistani Citizen and Bangladeshi Citizen) Bengali Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, Doctors and Economists

Rank	Image	Name	Family	Field	Legacy and Remarks	Born	Died
1		Muhammad Yunus	Bengali Muslim family, Chattogram (Chittagong), Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Economics	Winner of Nobel Peace Prize (2006) for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance in Bangladesh (East Bengal), only Bangladeshi (Bangladeshi Citizen) to win Nobel Prize (Nobel Peace Prize)	28 June 1940, Chittagong (Chattogram), Bengal, now Bangladesh (East Bengal)	-

List of the Greatest Influential Bengali Origin Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, Doctors and Economists

Rank	Image	Name	Citizenship (Nationality)	Family	Field	Legacy and Remarks	Born	Died
1		Abhijit Banerjee	American (Citizen of United States of America)	Bengali Hindu Brahmin family, Hooghly, West Bengal	Economics	Winner of Nobel Prize (Nobel Memorial Prize) in Economics (2019) for Experimental Approach to Alleviating Global Poverty	21 February 1961, Mumbai, Maharashtra	-
2		Jawed Karim	American (Citizen of United States of America)	Bengali Muslim family, Rural Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh (East Bengal)	Computer Engineering	Co-founder of YouTube, first person in the world to upload a video to YouTube, he designed many of YouTube's core components including YouTube's Real-Time Anti-Fraud System (RTAFS), YouTube is owned by Google, YouTube is the second most visited website in the world after Google Search, Google's (1998) Founders and Owners: Larry Page (American) and Sergey Brin (Russian), YouTube's (2005) Founders: Chad Hurley (American), Steven Chen (Chinese) and Jawed Karim (Bengali)	October 28, 1979, Merseburg, Bezirk Halle, East Germany, now Germany	-

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