India?s Science Geniuses

India has an amazing community of scientists doing cutting-edge work across their disciplines – from astronomy to neuroscience, nanoscience to botany. Who are they? And what are they doing? In this fascinating book, acclaimed CERN scientist Archana Sharma and science journalist Spoorthy Raman profile some of the most brilliant scientists working in the Nobel Prize-awarded fields of science and describe their work to us. Written for a lay reader, India’s Science Geniuses makes the exciting world of Indian science come vividly alive.

Dr Archana Sharma is a senior physicist at the CERN Laboratory, Geneva. She is an internationally recognized expert for her experimental work on micropattern detectors for research in High Energy Physics. Spoorthy Raman is a science writer and journalist who writes about all things science – from neurons to neutrinos. Her work has appeared in many national and international publications. She is also the author of a children’s book, India’s Adventures in Space.