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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.
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.
Jan 28, 2019 · New Delhi: Nuclear physicist Raja Ramanna, then 53, was in Iraq as a guest of Saddam Hussein in 1978 when the latter reportedly left him stunned with a strange request. Hussein wanted Ramanna to stay back in Iraq and take over the country’s fledgling nuclear programme.
Aug 20, 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...
