SATISH DHAWAN BIOGRAPHY
సతీష్ ధావన్ జీవిత చరిత్ర
Satish Dhawan (25 September 1920 – 3 January 2002) was an Indian aerospace engineer, widely regarded as the father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India. Born in Srinagar, Dhawan was educated in India and further on in the United States. 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. He succeeded M G K MENON, as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 1972.
Dhawan was a graduate of the University
of the Punjab in Lahore, India (now in Pakistan), 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. In 1947, he completed a
Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, and an aeronautical engineering degree from the
California Institute of Technology followed by a double PhD in mathematics and
aerospace engineering under the supervision of his advisor Hans W. Liepmann in
1951.
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