1930 - Prof Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (C.V. Raman) gets Nobel prize in physics for "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
January 1935 - Indian National Science Academy was established
1942 - CSIR founded
June 1, 1945 - Tata Institute of Fundamental research started in banglore, moved to Bombay within six months.
1948 - Atomic Energy Commission founded
1954 - Department of Atomic Energy started with Homi Bhabha as its first head
1959 - National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) was set up at Delhi, moved to Bangalore in 1960.
1969 - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed
1975 - ISRO First Indian Satellite, Aryabhata, launched (April 19, 1975).