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

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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