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Indian nuclear scientist
Narayanan Srinivasan
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1930-05-11
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11 May 1930
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Died
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(2014-05-18)
(aged 84)
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Occupation
| Nuclear scientist
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Known for
| Atomic energy program in India
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Narayanan Srinivasan
(1930?2014) was an Indian nuclear scientist and the founder project director of
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
(IGCAR).
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One of the pioneers of atomic energy program in India, he served as the design engineer for the plutonium plant at Trombay,
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as the project director of IGCAR (the then Reactor Research Centre) at
Kalpakkam
, as the chief executive of Heavy Water Board and later the Nuclear Fuel Complex, and sat in the
Atomic Energy Commission of India
from 1982 to 1987.
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The
Government of India
awarded him the
Padma Bhushan
, the third highest civilian award, in 2003.
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He was also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the
Department of Atomic Energy
which he received in 2009.
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Srinivasan died on 18 May 2014 in Chennai, at the age of 84.
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