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( An Administrator, a Scholar Of Veda, 

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RAJGOPAL CHIDAMBARAM PASSED AWAY ( EMINENT NUCLEAR SCIENTIST OF INDIA)

BORN ON - 12TH NOVEMBER 1936 

DIED ON - 04TH JANUARY 2025 

KNOWN FOR - 

* Nuclear Weapon Programme 

- Smiling Buddha (POKHARAN-1)

- OPERATION SHAKTI ( POKHARAN-2) 

AWARDS - 

* 1975 - PADMASHRI 

* 1999 - PADMA VIBHUSHAN 

* 1996 - R D BIRLA Award Of The Indian Physics Association 

* 2006 - INS HOMI BHABHA LIFE TIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD OF THE INDIAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY 

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SERVED AS - 

* Principal Scientific Advisor Federal Government Of India 

* DIRECTOR At BARC (1990) 

* CHAIRMAN OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION OF INDIA 

* 1994-95 - CHAIRMAN OF INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY ( IAEA) 

* CHAIRMAN OF IIT MADRAS, IIT BOMBAY 

* CHAIRMAN OF CSIR ( MATERIAL RESEARCH SOCIETY )

* CHAIRMAN OF INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (2008) 

* MEMBER OF COMMISSION OF EMINENT PERSONS ( BY IAEA) 

* CHAIRMAN OF BOARD OF GOVERNANCE IIT JODHPUR

BOOKS - 

* INDIA RISING: MEMOIR OF A SCIENTIST BY R Chidambaram With Suresh Gangotra 

* HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS:  A Treatise - By R Chidambaram With Surinder M Sharma