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Raja ramanna
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Born
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28 January 1925
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Place
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Tiptur, Tumkur
district (in modern Karnataka State), British Indian Empire
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Died
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24 September
2004 (aged 79)
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Place
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Mumbai, Maharashtra State, India
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Residence
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India
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Citizenship
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India
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Nationality
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Indian
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Fields
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Physics
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Institutions
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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Defence
Research and Development Organisation
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International
Atomic Energy Agency
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Ministry of
Defence
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National Institute
of Advanced Studies
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Institute Named
After Ramanna
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Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology,
Indore (M.P.)
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Posts held
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Chairman,
Governing Council, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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Council of
Management, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,
Bangalore
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Chairman, Board
of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
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President,
Indian National Science Academy
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Vice-President,
Indian Academy of Sciences
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Scientific
Adviser to the Minister of Defence
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Director-general
of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
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Secretary for
Defence Research, Government of India
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Chairman,
Atomic Energy Commission
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Secretary,
Department of Atomic Energy
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Director,
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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Director,
National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc campus, Bangalore
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Awards
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Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1963
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Padma Shri in
1968
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Padma Bhushan
in 1973
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Padma Vibhushan
in 1976
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Books
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The Structure
of Music in Raga and Western Systems
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Years Of
Pilgrimage ( Autobiography) (1991)
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Alma mater
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Bishop Cotton
Boys' School Bengaluru
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Madras
Christian College
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University of
Mumbai
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King’s College
London, United Kingdom
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Known for
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India's nuclear
program
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Operation
Smiling Buddha
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Operation
Shakti
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Raja Ramanna
(28 January 1928 – 24 September 2004) was an Indian physicist who is best
known for his role in India's nuclear program during its early stages.
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Having joined
the nuclear program in 1964, Ramanna worked under Homi Jehangir Bhabha, and
later became the director this program in 1967.
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Ramanna
expanded and supervised scientific research on nuclear weapons and was the
first directing officer of the small team of scientists that supervised and
carried out the test of the nuclear device, under the codename Smiling
Buddha, in 1974.
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Ramanna was
associated with and directed India's nuclear program for more than four
decades, and also initiated industrial defense programmes for the Indian
Armed Forces.
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Ramanna died in
Mumbai in 2004 at the age of 79.
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