Timeline of the India R&D

• 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).
• 1979 - Bhaskara-I launched
• 1981 - Bhaskara-II launched
• 1982 - INSAT-1A launched
• 1983 - INSAT-1B launched
• 1988 - INSAT-1C launched
• 1990 - INSAT-1D launched
• 1991 - IRS-1B launched
• 1992 - INSAT-2A launched
• 1993 - INSAT-2B launched
• 1995 - INSAT-2C launched
• 2000 - INSAT-3B launched
• 2002 - INSAT-3C launched
• 2003 - INSAT-3A, INSAT-3E launched
• 2005 - INSAT-4A launched