Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan
Academic
1917 – 2007
Who was Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan?
Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan was an Indian nuclear chemist, defence scientist and an expert in the science of Explosives engineering. He was the founder director of the Explosives Research and Development Laboratory of India. He is considered one of the distinguished scientists in India due to his contributions to Indian space program, Indian nuclear program and missile program in their early stages. He developed the solid propellant for India's first space rocket launched at Thumba. He was responsible for developing the detonation system of India's first nuclear device which was successfully tested in 1974, an operation codenamed Smiling Buddha.
Other areas of work: Wrote a book on Hydroponics and developed a cost-effective method for producing parabollic mirrors for astronomical telescopes.
He was awarded Padma Shri in 1974 by the Government of India for his contributions.
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- Born
- Jan 30, 1917
Jabalpur - Nationality
- India
- Education
- University of Mumbai
- Sir Parshurambhau College
- Lived in
- Mumbai
- Pune
- Died
- Jul 27, 2007
Pune
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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