Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Indian chemist
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Place of Birth: Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
About Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan
- Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan (30 January 1917 – 27 July 2007) was an Indian nuclear chemist, defence scientist and an expert in the science of Explosives engineering.
- He was the founder director of the Explosives Research and Development Laboratory (now known as the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL)) of India.
- He is considered one of the distinguished scientists in India due to his contributions to Indian space program, Indian nuclear program and missile program in their early stages.
- He developed the solid propellant for India's first space rocket launched at Thumba.
- He was responsible for developing the detonation system of India's first nuclear device which was successfully tested in 1974, an operation codenamed Smiling Buddha. Other areas of work: Wrote a book on Hydroponics and developed a cost-effective method for producing parabolic mirrors for astronomical telescopes. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1974 by the Government of India for his contributions.
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