Fact 1
In 1976, he received one of the second highest honors in India, the Padma Vibhushan.
Fact 2
After his death, buildings like the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary were established along with the Salim Ali School of Ecology and more.
Fact 3
He received a number of awards and many honorary doctorates. The J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize he received was $100,000, which he used to establish the Salim Ali Nature Conservation Fund.
An Indian nuclear physicist and a professor of physics.
Was a biologist from Germany known best for his work in evolution and his influential work in the history of science.
A Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases.
An Indian chemist, educator and entrepreneur.
Was an American chemist best known as the developer of the radiocarbon dating technique for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1960.
was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC.
was a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
Are pink to scarlet colored, web-footed wading birds with down-bent bills.
Was an American biologist often called the “father of biodiversity” or “socio-biology” for discovering hundreds of new insect species.