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Ram Narain Agarwal is noted scientist and an aerospace engineer of India and is known as father of the Agni series of surface-to-surface missiles.[1]
He was born to a family of traders in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Agarwal has worked as Program Director (AGNI) and as Director Advanced Systems Laboratory and of DRDO.[2]
Education and qualifications[]
- Bachelors degree
- Masters Degree in Engineering, from Aero-Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Fellow Membership in the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Aeronautical Society of India
Awards[]
- Padma Shri in the year 1990
- Padma Bhushan in the year 2000
- Dr. Biren Roy Space Science Award (1990) from Aero Society of India
- Scientist of the Year Award (1993)
- DRDO Technology Leadership Award (1998)
- Chandrasekhar Saraswati National Eminence Award for Science (2000)
- Life Time Achievement Award (2004).
References[]
- ↑ "PM promises strict N-safeguards". Chandigarh: The Tribune. 18 May 2005. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050518/main2.htm. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ↑ Chengappa, Raj (8 August 2005). "Charioteer Of Fire". India Today. http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20050808/defence.html. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
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