1. Satish Dhawan was an Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, widely regarded as the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India.
15 Facts About Satish Dhawan
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Satish Dhawan served as the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation from 1972 to 1984.
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Satish Dhawan was one of the most eminent researchers in the field of turbulence and boundary layers, leading the successful and indigenous development of the Indian space programme.
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Satish Dhawan was born on 25 September 1920 in Srinagar in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in a Saraiki Hindu family.
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Satish Dhawan's father came from migrated from Dera Ismail Khan to Srinagar.
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Satish Dhawan's father, Rai Bahadur Devi Dayal Dhawan, was an MSc and LLB who joined the Punjab Civil Service and later became a sessions and district judge.
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Satish Dhawan was a graduate of what is called Punjab Engineering College in the city of Chandigarh in India, the Mughalpura Technical College in Lahore, Pakistan, undivided India, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics, a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Arts in English literature.
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In 1972, Satish Dhawan became chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation and secretary to the Government of India at the Department of Space.
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When this succeeded, Satish Dhawan told Abdul Kalam to attend the press meet without his presence.
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Satish Dhawan joined as faculty at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1951 and became its director in 1962.
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Satish Dhawan set up the country's first supersonic wind tunnel at IISc.
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Satish Dhawan pioneered research on relaminarization of separated boundary layer flows, three-dimensional boundary layers and trisonic flows.
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Satish Dhawan carried out pioneering experiments in rural education, remote sensing and satellite communications.
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Satish Dhawan's work resulted in operational systems including INSAT, a telecommunications satellite; IRS, an Indian Remote Sensing satellite; and the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, which established India as a space-faring country.
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Satish Dhawan was married to Nalini Dhawan, a cytogeneticist, and his daughter Jyotsna Dhawan is serving as senior principal scientist in the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.