Freedom fighters · Science & public service · 1963–
Tessy Thomas
Missile scientist, often called the Missile Woman of India. Led Agni programme work inside DRDO and made hard defence science look normal for Indian women engineers.
Thomas's career sits in classified programmes, so Trishola sticks to public biography: leadership in strategic missile projects and a generation of girls who saw a path into defence R&D.
Capability without chest-thumping. Labs over loudspeakers.
Why on this wall
Women in hard science as national capacity.