Rocket scientist Satish Dhawan’s 102nd birth anniversary was observed on Sunday in a grand manner at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota (SDSC – SHAR).
Hailed as the father of India’s fluid dynamics research, Satish Dhawan was also an eminent researcher in the field of turbulence and boundary layers.
Born in Srinagar, he was educated in India and the United States, before succeeding Vikram Sarabhai, the founder of Indian space programme, as the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 1972.