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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Udupi Ramachandra Rao has received more than 921,422 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Udupi Ramachandra Rao is the 800th most popular physicist (down from 749th in 2019), the 933rd most popular biography from India (down from 803rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 800 out of 851. Before him are Sarah Frances Whiting, Abhay Ashtekar, Robert Detweiler, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Frank Press, and Narinder Singh Kapany. After him are David J. Griffiths, Mazlan Othman, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Stephen L. Adler, Karl Taylor Compton, and Ernest Moniz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 536. Before him are Brian Murphy, Eeva Ruoppa, Michael McClure, Edward Egan, Shirley Cawley, and Duke Pearson. After him are Clyde McPhatter, Dorothy Ashby, Tina Brooks, Jack Smith, Kurt Schmid, and Aladár Kovácsi. Among people deceased in 2017, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 578. Before him are Ricardo Vidal, Norma McCorvey, Miguel Ángel Loayza, Nancy Dupree, J. P. Donleavy, and Robert Elsie. After him are Zdeněk Šreiner, Denis Johnson, Nicole Bricq, Viktor Kupreichik, František Ševčík, and Hugo Dollheiser.

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In India

Among people born in India, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 933 out of 1,861. Before him are Asaf Ali (1888), Jamuna (1936), Chandrashekhar Agashe (1888), Zohra Sehgal (1912), Mary Kom (1983), and Uma Bharti (1959). After him are P. A. Sangma (1947), Nasir Hussain (1931), Rahat Indori (1950), Mandakini (1963), Nagarjuna (1959), and Prabhas (1979).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 14. Before him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Daulat Singh Kothari (1906), Abhay Ashtekar (1949), and Narinder Singh Kapany (1926). After him are G. N. Ramachandran (1922), and Ashoke Sen (1956).

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