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Raja Ramanna

1925 - 2004

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Raja Ramanna (28 January 1925 – 24 September 2004) was an Indian nuclear 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. Ramanna obtained his bachelors in Physics at Madras University and PhD from King's College, London. He joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and later the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to work on nuclear physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raja Ramanna is the 814th most popular physicist (down from 734th in 2019), the 1,017th most popular biography from India (down from 737th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Raja Ramanna ranks 814 out of 851. Before him are Howard Georgi, Arthur Wightman, Cumrun Vafa, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Daniel Kleppner, and Sylvia Fedoruk. After him are J. Richard Gott, Sidney Drell, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Albert-László Barabási, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Ernest Moniz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Raja Ramanna ranks 524. Before him are Albert Paulsen, Alexei Guryshev, Ravindra Kelekar, John Compton, Nina Bawden, and Roy Brown. After him are Swami Rama, Philip Carey, Nat Hentoff, Ebrahim Alkazi, Keshav Dutt, and Nicholas Brathwaite. Among people deceased in 2004, Raja Ramanna ranks 322. Before him are June Maston, Eddie Hopkinson, Beyers Naudé, Hiram Fong, Henry Cockburn, and Suraiya. After him are Brenda Fassie, Dennis Wilshaw, Pacita Abad, Virginia Capers, Ken Downing, and Rodger Ward.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raja Ramanna ranks 1,017 out of 1,861. Before him are Virat Kohli (1988), Jamuna (1936), Nitin Gadkari (1957), Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944), N. Biren Singh (1961), and B. Saroja Devi (1938). After him are Mahendra Kapoor (1934), Mani Ratnam (1956), Shreya Ghoshal (1984), Anu Aggarwal (1969), Juliet Prowse (1936), and Asaf Ali (1888).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Raja Ramanna ranks 14. Before him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), and G. N. Ramachandran (1922). After him are Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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