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Raja Ramanna (28 January 1925 – 24 September 2004) was an Indian physicist. He was the director of India's nuclear program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which culminated in Smiling Buddha, India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974.
Raja Ramanna (born January 28, 1925, Tumkur, India—died September 24, 2004, Mumbai) was an Indian nuclear physicist who played a key role in the development of that country’s nuclear weapons program.
Jan 28, 2019 · 41 years ago, Indian physicist, Raja Ramanna, was invited to stay in Iraq, as a prized guest of Saddam Hussein. As expected, such an invite sent by the Iraqi dictator to a nuclear physicist, was not all that cordial and had a hidden agenda.
Dr Raja Ramanna, a nuclear physicist, held the post of a professor at the time of his appointment as the Scientific Adviser. He made significant contributions in the field of neutron thermalisation and reactor design. Dr Ramanna brought home to DRDO three important aspects of leadership.
Nov 16, 2011 · Dr. Raja Ramanna is referred to as the ‘Father of India’s nuclear program’, he played a tremendous role in ensuring that India joined the elite league of nuclear powered nations.
Raja Ramanna was a multifaceted personality – an eminent nuclear physicist, a highly accomplished technologist, an able administrator, an inspiring leader, a gifted musician, a scholar of Sanskrit literature and philosophy, and above all a completed human being.
Aug 21, 2021 · Whether in the early shaping of research and human resources development at the Department of Atomic Energy, preparing for India’s nuclear science programme or realising ‘Smiling Buddha’ (India’s first nuclear test) in 1974, he was a true pathbreaker. Even for the nuclear power programme, it was he who raised the bar to 10,000 MWe.
Aug 19, 2021 · Dr Raja Ramanna was one of India’s most celebrated nuclear physicists, a scientist who helped shape India’s nuclear programme. But there was one thing his colleagues could never figure out – the suffix to his name – ‘PhD’, ‘LRSM’.
Sep 26, 2004 · NEW DELHI, Sept. 25 - Dr. Raja Ramanna, an eminent physicist and developer of India's nuclear bomb program who played a major role in the country's first nuclear test in 1974, died on Friday...
Raja Ramanna, a distinguished Indian physicist famed for his pivotal role in the nascent stages of India's nuclear program, was born on January 28, 1925, in Tumkur, Karnataka. He went...
