Satish Dhawan
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1920 – 2002
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Who was Satish Dhawan?
Satish Dhawan was an Indian aerospace engineer, widely regarded as father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India. Born in Srinagar, Dhawan was educated in India and further on in the United States. Dhawan was one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers, leading the successful and ingenious development of Indian space programme. He succeeded Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of the Indian space programme, as Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation in 1972.
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- Born
- Sep 25, 1920
Srinagar - Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- University of the Punjab
- California Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- India
- Died
- Jan 3, 2002
India
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on July 23, 2013
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