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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 901,087 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Udupi Ramachandra Rao is the 749th most popular physicist (down from 702nd in 2019), the 807th most popular biography from India (down from 749th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 749 out of 717. Before him are John Houghton, Mary K. Gaillard, Werner Israel, Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, and Brian Cox. After him are Norris Bradbury, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Yash Pal, Herbert Goldstein, and Richard A. Muller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 478. Before him are Tim Parnell, Richard G. Hovannisian, Charles Adkins, Mae Faggs, Lou Jones, and Richie Guerin. After him are Angela Mortimer, Dennis Skinner, Dean Smith, Andy Bathgate, S. M. Krishna, and Bob Houbregs. Among people deceased in 2017, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 534. Before him are William H. Gass, Ernie Pieterse, Connie Hawkins, Peter Sallis, Harvey Atkin, and Margit Schumann. After him are J. P. Donleavy, Janusz Wójcik, Mario Tullio Montano, Yash Pal, Ryszard Parulski, and Darrall Imhoff.

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In India

Among people born in India, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 807 out of 1,493. Before him are Parmanand Jha (1944), Neetu Singh (1958), Zohra Sehgal (1912), Alka Yagnik (1966), Madhur Jaffrey (1933), and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905). After him are Prem Nazir (1927), Sikandar Jah (1768), Krishan Kant (1927), Bindu (1951), Tessy Thomas (1963), and Paresh Rawal (1955).

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Among PHYSICISTS In India

Among physicists born in India, Udupi Ramachandra Rao ranks 13. Before him are Vikram Sarabhai (1919), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Tom Kibble (1932), Raja Ramanna (1925), Narinder Singh Kapany (1926), and Abhay Ashtekar (1949). After him are Ashoke Sen (1956).

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