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Udupi Ramachandra Rao

1932 - 2017

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Udupi Ramachandra Rao (10 March 1932 – 24 July 2017) was an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. He was also the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad and Nehru Planetarium at Bengaluru and chancellor of the Indian Institute for Space Science and Technology (IIST) at Thiruvananthapuram. He is known as "The Satellite Man of India". He pioneered India's first satellite launch Aryabhata in 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Udupi Ramachandra Rao is the 614th most popular physicist (up from 801st in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from India (up from 934th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 614 out of 851. Before him are Bryce DeWitt, Albert Betz, Victor J. Stenger, Prosper-René Blondlot, Aleksandr Stoletov, and Alfred Landé. After him are Leopoldo Nobili, Walter Kaufmann, David Deutsch, Heinrich Kayser, Jean Becquerel, and Franco Rasetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 313. Before him are Geoff Bent, Donald Byrd, Edward Hardwicke, Maria Itkina, Lodewijk van den Berg, and Arif Mardin. After him are Angelo Vanzin, Guðbergur Bergsson, Chiquito de la Calzada, Francisco Umbral, Otis Davis, and Cliff Allison. Among people deceased in 2017, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 323. Before him are Eugène Parlier, Yaakov Neeman, Hans Alfredson, Karl Stotz, Heinz Schneiter, and Erika Böhm-Vitense. After him are Carlos Alberto Silva, Chiquito de la Calzada, Darlene Cates, Brad Harris, Lola Albright, and Vladimir Levenshtein.

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In India

Among people born in India, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 585 out of 1,861. Before him are Bal Thackeray (1926), Nutan (1936), Akshata Murty (1980), Pooja Hegde (1990), Devi Shetty (1953), and Erick Avari (1952). After him are Disha Patani (1992), Nitish Kumar (1951), Nagarjun (1911), Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Christian Zacharias (1950), and Faizi (1547).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 10. Before him are Anna Mani (1918), Tom Kibble (1932), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893). After him are Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), G. N. Ramachandran (1922), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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