Discover

'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, 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

Posts held

Awards

Books

See also

External links

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

Awards

★ Padma Shri

★ Padma Bhushan

★ Padma Vibhushan

Books

★ ''The Structure of Music in Raga and Western Systems''

See also

★ List of Indians

★ Indian science

External links

★ Interview with Dr. Raja Ramanna

★ Obituary in rediff.com