PREVIOUS
✖
Vikram Sara Bhai – 100th Birth Anniversary
August 13 , 2019
2275 days
2717
0
- Google celebrated the 100th birth anniversary of scientist and innovator Vikram Sarabhai on August 12th, with a doodle.
- The lander on India's moon mission Chandrayaan II which will finally land near the South Pole of the moon on September 20, 2019 is named Vikram in his honour.
- He is considered as the father of India's space program.
- He received the Padma Bhushan in 1966 and was conferred the Padma Vibhushan posthumously in 1972.
- In 1973, a crater on the moon was named after him.
- Sarabhai started a project for the fabrication and launch of an Indian satellite.
- As a result, the first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, was put in orbit in 1975 from a Russian cosmodrome.
- He was the founder Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from 1963 to 1972.
- He was also the Founder and Chairman (1963–1971) of Space Applications Centre at Ahmedabad.
- Other institutions founded by him.
|
Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, 1947 |
|
Indian National Committee for Space Research, 1962 |
|
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, 1963 |
|
Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, 1961 |
|
Community Science Centre in Ahmedabad, 1960 |
|
Darpan Academy for Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, 1949 |
Distinguished positions
- President of the Physics section, Indian Science Congress (1962).
- President of the General Conference of the I.A.E.A., Vienna (1970).
- Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (1966 –1971).
- Vice-President, Fourth UN Conference on 'Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy' (1971).
Post Views:
2717
Leave a Reply
Your Comment is awaiting moderation.