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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.
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’.
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 to eternal...
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...
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...
Sep 24, 2004 · Raja Ramanna (1926-2004) was an Indian physicist. Ramanna was born in Tumkur in Karnataka State. He studied science at Madras Christian College before moving to London, where he completed a Ph.D. in physics at King’s College.
Smiling Buddha ( MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the code name of India 's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974. The nuclear fission type bomb was detonated in the Pokhran Test Range of the Indian Army in Rajasthan. As per the United States military intelligence, the operation was named as Happy Krishna.
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.
