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Raja Ramanna

1925 - 2004

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Raja Ramanna (28 January 1925 – 23 September 2004) was an Indian physicist who is best known for his role in India's nuclear program during its early stages. Having joined the nuclear program in 1964, Ramanna worked under Homi Jehangir Bhabha, and later became the director of this program in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raja Ramanna has received more than 590,671 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Raja Ramanna is the 704th most popular physicist (down from 644th in 2019), the 664th most popular biography from India (down from 573rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Raja Ramanna ranks 704 out of 717. Before him are Cumrun Vafa, Helen Quinn, Jürgen Kurths, Christian Møller, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, and Seymour Benzer. After him are Hubert Curien, Karl Taylor Compton, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Juan Martín Maldacena, Jacques Friedel, and Lene Hau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Raja Ramanna ranks 419. Before him are Robert B. Sherman, D. A. Pennebaker, Janet Rowley, Ilona Novák, Bruno Pesaola, and Yuriy Lituyev. After him are Shirley Strickland, Phillip V. Tobias, Ruth First, Lilyan Chauvin, Jacques Grimonpon, and Fernand Decanali. Among people deceased in 2004, Raja Ramanna ranks 247. Before him are Victor Argo, Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, David Raksin, Frances Dee, Carl Anderson, and Robert Pastorelli. After him are Shirley Strickland, Alexey Korneyev, Lennart Strand, Julius Sang, Vilayat Khan, and Mulk Raj Anand.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raja Ramanna ranks 664 out of 1,493. Before him are Jagjit Singh (1941), Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961), Surekha Sikri (1945), Aruna Irani (1946), Michael Bates (1920), and R. D. Burman (1939). After him are Charles Sturt (1795), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Baselios Cleemis (1959), Harish-Chandra (1923), Juhi Chawla (1967), and Govinda (1963).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

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

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