26 Facts About Venkatraman Radhakrishnan

Venkataraman Radhakrishnan was an Indian space scientist and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences member.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan retired from his career as professor emeritus of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, of which he had previously been director from 1972 to 1994 and which is named after his father.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was born in Tondiarpet, a suburb of Madras, to Nobel laureate physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his wife Lokasundari Ammal.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan graduated from Mysore University before joining the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was a senior research fellow of the California Institute of Technology in USA before joining the Radiophysics Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Sydney, Australia initially as the senior research scientist and later as the principal research scientist.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan returned to India in 1972 and took up the task of rebuilding the Raman Research Institute as its director.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan served as the chairman of Commission J of the International Union of Radio Sciences.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was a member of the Foreign Advisory Committee for the Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy, Steering Committee of the Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, Australia, Advisory Committee for the Green Bank Radio Telescope, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was the Member of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was selected to various scientific bodies, both national and international.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was a Foreign Fellow of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the US National Science Academy.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was associated with radio astronomy from the beginning of its post-World War II growth in the 1950s.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was one the founders of observational astronomy in India.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan worked around the world throughout his career in various locations, such as Sweden in 1954, Caltech, CSIRO, Sydney, and Bangalore.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was the first to systematically apply interferometry to polarized brightness distributions and an early study of the Zeeman Effect in the 21cm line emitted by a hydrogen atom.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan contributed in designing and fabricating hang-gliders, micro-light aircraft and sailboats.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan published more than 80 papers in research journals and proceedings of different various International Conferences.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan co-edited a book of conference-proceedings, "Supernovae: their Progenitors and Remnants".

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was the chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy from 1982 to 1987.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan was involved in the construction of the 10.4 meter millimeter wave radio antenna at the Institute which has been used to study various astrophysical phenomena producing original contributions in pulsar astronomy as well as recombination line studies of the interstellar medium.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan made contributions to the study of Deuterium abundance in the galaxy, Astrophysical Raman Masers, OH emission from clouds, and construction of low frequency telescopes at Gauribidanur and Mauritius.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan delivered the Milne Lecture in Oxford in 1987, and Jansky Lecture in 2000.

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan received numerous awards, some of which are listed below.