Raja Ramanna

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Raja Ramanna (1925 - September 23, 2004) born in Tumkur, Karnataka, was an Indian nuclear scientist and was associated with the country's first nuclear test in 1974. He died in Mumbai in 2004.

Beginning his studies at Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore,later he graduated from Madras Christian College and was a resident of St.Thomas's Hall. Raja Ramanna obtained Ph.D. and L.R.S.M. from London. He specialised in nuclear physics, reactor physics and design, European music and philosophy. Dr. Ramanna was also a noted pianist.

Dr. Ramanna was the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for over a decade. It was during this time that India carried out its first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974, codenamed Operation Smiling Buddha. He has served as director-general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and as scientific adviser to the defence minister. He was the President of the 30th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He was the Union minister of state for defence in 1990 in the V.P. Singh government. In 1997, he became a Member of Parliament through the upper house, the Rajya Sabha. He was also the first director of National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

Contents 1 Posts held 2 Awards 3 Books 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Posts held

• Chairman, Governing Council, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• Council of Management, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
• Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• President, Indian National Science Academy
• Vice-President, Indian Academy of Sciences
• Scientific Adviser to the Minister of Defence
• Director-general of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
• Secretary for Defence Research, Government of India
• Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
• Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy
• Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
• Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc campus, Bangalore

[edit] Awards

• Padma Shri
• Padma Bhushan
• Padma Vibhushan

[edit] Books

• The Structure of Music in Raga and Western Systems

[edit] See also

• List of Indians
• Indian science

[edit] External links

• Interview with Dr. Raja Ramanna
• Obituary in rediff.com

v • d • e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Science K.S. Krishnan (1958) • M.G.K. Menon (1960) • G.N. Ramachandran (1961) • Vikram Sarabhai (1962) • Raja Ramanna (1963) • A.R. Verma (1964) • R.B. Ramachandra (1965) • S.C.Jain & S. Rameshan (1966) • Devendra Lal (1967) • A.P. Mitra (1968) • Asoke Nath Mitra (1969) • Vainu Bappu (1970) • P.K. Iyengar (1971) • S. Chandrasekhar & S.K. Joshi (1972) • Virendra Singh (1973) • K.P.Sinha & M.S. Sodha (1974) • K.L.Chopra & B.R. Nag (1975) • C.K. Majumdar & Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976) • J.V. Narlikar & E.S.Rajagopal (1978) • A.K. Ghatak & S.S.Jha (1979) • N. Mukunda & N.S. Satyamurthy (1980) • S.M.Roy & Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981) • Girish Saran Agrawal & T.V. Ramakrishnan(1982) • S.S. Kapoor & Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983) • Ramanath Cowsik & Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984) • Narendra Kumar & K. Singh (1985) • P.K. Kaw (1986) • Vijay Kumar Kapahi & Probir Roy (1987) • Deepak Kumar & O.N. Srivastava (1988) • M.Lakshmanan & N.V.Madhusudhana (1989) • G. Baskaran & A.K. Sood (1990) • Deepak Dhar & Deepak Mathur (1991) • Vikram Kumar & S.R.Shenoy (1992) • Krishna Gopal & Rajiah Simon (1993) • A.K. Raychaudhuri & Ashoke Sen (1994) • Mustansir Barma (1995) • Thanu Padmanabhan (1996) • B.K.Chakrabarti & A.Raychaudhuri (1997) • S.R.Das & A.M. Jayannavar (1998) • Sunil Mukhi & E.V. Sampathkumaran (1999) • Sriram Ramaswamy & Varun Sahni (2000) • Rahul Pandit (2001) • Avinash Anant Deshpande & Mohit Randeria (2002) • G. Ravindra Kumar & Biswarup Mukhopadhyay (2003)• Madan Rao (2004) • Sandip Trivedi (2005) • Atish Dabholkar & Sanjay Puri (2006) • Yashwant Gupta & Pinaki Majumdar (2007) • All the branches Biological Science | Chemical Science | Engineering Science | Mathematical Science | Medical Science | Physical Science | Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences