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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raja Ramanna has received more than 618,656 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Raja Ramanna is the 733rd most popular physicist (down from 704th in 2019), the 737th most popular biography from India (down from 660th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Raja Ramanna ranks 733 out of 851. Before him are Rudolf Haag, Henrik Svensmark, Julian Barbour, C. R. Hagen, Joseph Polchinski, and Walter Gordon. After him are Derek J. de Solla Price, Seymour Benzer, John Aitken, Gersh Budker, Alan Cottrell, and Bernard Lovell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Raja Ramanna ranks 434. Before him are Stepas Butautas, Marty Robbins, Yuriy Lituyev, Miiko Taka, Aleksei Paramonov, and Bruno Pesaola. After him are Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, Georges Stuber, Barbara Bates, Shelley Berman, Nelson Demarco, and Horacio Guarany. Among people deceased in 2004, Raja Ramanna ranks 266. Before him are Yasutomi Nishizuka, Lennox Miller, Bill Nicholson, Sylvi Saimo, Guinn Smith, and Carl Anderson. After him are Jean Graczyk, Mulk Raj Anand, Alexey Korneyev, Iris Chang, Heinrich Mark, and Frances Dee.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raja Ramanna ranks 737 out of 1,861. Before him are Charles Sturt (1795), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Anna Chandy (1905), Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905), Radhanath Sikdar (1813), and Murad Bakhsh (1624). After him are Bakht Khan (1797), Akkineni Nageswara Rao (1923), Suniel Shetty (1961), Divya Bharti (1974), Padmini (1932), and N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Raja Ramanna ranks 10. Before him are Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), and Tom Kibble (1932). After him are Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), Udupi Ramachandra Rao (1932), G. N. Ramachandran (1922), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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