Saturday, September 25, 2004
Pioneer of India’s N-programme dies
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Raja Ramanna
MUMBAI: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India’s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday here at age 79.
Ramanna supervised India’s first nuclear test in the Pokhran desert in the western state of Rajasthan in 1974. Handpicked by Homi Bhabha, the founder of India’s nuclear programme, Ramanna established an international name through his academic work on nuclear fission.
Raja Ramanna
MUMBAI: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India’s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday here at age 79.
Ramanna supervised India’s first nuclear test in the Pokhran desert in the western state of Rajasthan in 1974. Handpicked by Homi Bhabha, the founder of India’s nuclear programme, Ramanna established an international name through his academic work on nuclear fission.
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