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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.
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.
May 6, 2024 · 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.
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 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’.
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.
Oct 21, 2004 · Raja Ramanna played a pivotal role in India's first underground nuclear explosion in May 1974 when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister. He brought together several teams...
Jul 1, 2005 · On 24 September 2004, with the death of Raja Ramanna following cardiac arrest in Mumbai, India, one more star disappeared from India’s scientific sky. To most of the country’s citizens, Ramanna was the father of India’s test nuclear explosion in the Rajasthan desert on 18 May 1974.
Oct 11, 2004 · Dr Raja Ramanna, 79, dies in Mumbai following a brief illness. Ramanna would be best remembered as India's bombmeister. He headed the team that built and tested India's first nuclear device at Pokhran in 1974. For those who worked with him, Ramanna was a dream team leader.
