Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri

Indian physicist

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1917

Place of Birth: Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 25-Jun-2006

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an Indian physicist and academic, and a scientific advisor to the Government of India.
He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics in India and for building the nation's first cyclotron at the University of Calcutta. In the early 1970s, as the Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence and chair of the Cabinet Committee on Science and Technology, Nagchaudhuri played an influential role in Smiling Buddha, India's first nuclear test.
He also initiated the first feasibility studies on India's ballistic missile program.
Later, he also served as a member of the Planning Commission and as Vice Chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.