Homi Jehangir Bhabha- He was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Colloquially known as "father of the Indian nuclear program", Bhabha was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is now named the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honor.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan- He was a space scientist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, where he had been Director from 1972 to 1994. He graduated from the Mysore University before joining the Department of Physics at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

John Bardeen- He was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first prize for the invention of the transistor; and second prize for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. Bardeen received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He took all the graduate courses in physics and mathematics that had interested him, and he graduated in five years instead of the usual four.