Biography of all indian scientists in nasa
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Mamta Patel Nagaraja
Dr. Mamta Patel Nagaraja is currently the NASA Associate Chief Scientist for Exploration and Applied Research in the Office of the Chief Scientist. In this role, she serves as an expert for the Chief Scientist in the areas of exploration and science performed by humans in space.
San Angelo, Texas – a West Texas town larger than I often make it sound, but with a tangible small-town feel.
When my older sister claimed she would one day be an astronaut, on the heels of Sally Ride&#;s launch into space, I made the same claim – though, it was more because I dreamed to be just like my sister! She outgrew the crazy dream, and my desire only got stronger.
I landed a coveted spot in the cooperative education program (now called NASA Pathways Internships) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. For a young girl from a small town in a largely underserved area, getting to NASA was pretty much unheard of in those parts of the country. The story is, of course, much deeper – one th
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Naseem Rangwala
One textbook chapter turned Naseem Rangwala into someone intent on studying the mysteries of the universe. Today she does just that, as project scientist for NASA’s flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
Naseem Rangwala can’t think of a single unmarried woman from the small community where she grew up who moved abroad in pursuit of a career. But then, one day, she pulled up her roots from her hometown in India and made her way to NASA.
Rangwala is the project scientist for NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a telescope installed aboard a modified Boeing aircraft. Recently, she has helped other researchers use SOFIA to make exciting discoveries, like finding water on the sunlit surface of the Moon or learning that comets could have delivered carbon, a key ingredient of life, to Earth long ago. But this is not a job she was obviously destined for – nor one she always knew she wanted.
Growing up in the town of
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Murthy Gudipati
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Ph.D. in Chemistry
University of Texas at Austin
Post-Doctoral Affiliation
Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany
Research Associate
German Science Foundation
Habilitation Fellow (Tenure Track Fellow)
Habilitation (similar to tenure track) University of Cologne, Germany
Physical Chemistry
Murthy Gudipati’s fascination with space and science started as a boy sleeping beneath the sky during harvest season in southern India. He became fascinated with the sky and stars. His interest in astrophysics and astrochemistry grew after he started working in Germany, and while collaborating with NASA scientists. He tells how that collaboration led to a career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he is currently working on NASA’s Europa Clipper uppdrag.
My fascination with space started when I was a boy working in the fields of our village in southern India. We grew peanuts and rice, and