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Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) is the premier engineering training institute under the Department of Defence Research & Development, Ministry of Defence, and Government of India. DIAT (DU) provides higher education to civilians and officers from Defence Research Organizations, IOFS (Indian Ordnance Factories), Defence PSUs (like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bharat Electronics, Bharat Dynamics Limited), ship building agencies (like Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Cochin and Goa Shipyards), Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, armed forces of friendly countries (like Sri Lanka and Nigeria,), and other central and state governmental agencies.
India's Ministry of Human Resource Development has placed DIAT in the Category 'A' Deemed University. DIAT is also accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and National Board of Accreditation. Over the past years, researchers in DIAT have filed over 50 patent applications with the Indian Patent Office and published over 2000 papers in various journals of international repute.
The Indian Armament Studies, later renamed as the Institute of Armament Technology (now Defence Institute of Advanced Technology - DIAT) was founded by Patrick Blackett (Nobel Laureate-Physics-1948) and Daulat Singh Kothari (Padma Bushan & Padma Vibhushan) in 1952.
Patrick Blackett, a Nobel Laureate (Physics-1948) who was a military expert in the Royal British Navy was invited by Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India to 'Indianize the military' during the 1950s. Blackett was awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1940 and the American Medal for Merit in 1946. Patrick Blackett was head of the Physics department at Imperial College London. The current building of the Physics department at Imperial College is named the Blackett Laboratory.
Daulat Singh Kothari (Padma Bushan & Padma Vibhushan), the Scientific Advisor to India's Ministry of Defence is an outstanding physicist and educationalist. He is considered to be the architect of defence science in India. He is the founder of most of the DRDO labs in India such as the Naval Dockyard Laboratory (later renamed Naval Chemical and Metallurgical Laboratory) in Mumbai, the Indian Naval Physical Laboratory in Kochi, the Centre for Fire Research in Delhi, the Solid State Physics Laboratory in Delhi, the Defence Food Research Laboratory in Mysore, the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences in Chennai, the Directorate of Psychological Research in New Delhi, the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory in Hyderabad, the Scientific Evaluation Group in Delhi, and the Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory in Chandigarh. Dr. D.S. Kothari has also played a crucial role in setting up UGC and NCERT.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in his book, Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India wrote, “Dr. D.S. Kothari, a professor at Delhi University, was an outstanding physicist and astrophysicist. He is well known for ionisation of matter by pressure in cold compact object like planets. This theory is complementary to the epoch-making theory of thermal ionisation of his guru, Dr Maghnad Saha. Dr. D.S. Kothari set a scientific tradition in Indian defence tasks when he became Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister in 1948. The first thing he did was to establish the Defence Science Centre to do research in electronic materials, nuclear medicine and ballistic science."
Dr. D.S. Kothari and Dr. P Blackett worked together at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge University under the guidance of Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.
In 1967, the Indian Armament Studies was renamed as the "Institute of Armament Technology" (IAT) and was moved to its present location in Girinagar, Pune. From the relatively narrow scope of Armament Studies in the 1950s, the role of the institute was considerably enlarged by the Defence R&D Council in 1964, and then again in 1981.
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Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) is the premier engineering training institute under the Department of Defence Research & Development, Ministry of Defence, and Government of India. DIAT (DU) provides higher education to civilians and officers from Defence Research Organizations, IOFS (Indian Ordnance Factories), Defence PSUs (like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bharat Electronics, Bharat Dynamics Limited), ship building agencies (like Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Cochin and Goa Shipyards), Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, armed forces of friendly countries (like Sri Lanka and Nigeria,), and other central and state governmental agencies.
India's Ministry of Human Resource Development has placed DIAT in the Category 'A' Deemed University. DIAT is also accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and National Board of Accreditation. Over the past years, researchers in DIAT have filed over 50 patent applications with the Indian Patent Office and published over 2000 papers in various journals of international repute.
The Indian Armament Studies, later renamed as the Institute of Armament Technology (now Defence Institute of Advanced Technology - DIAT) was founded by Patrick Blackett (Nobel Laureate-Physics-1948) and Daulat Singh Kothari (Padma Bushan & Padma Vibhushan) in 1952.
Patrick Blackett, a Nobel Laureate (Physics-1948) who was a military expert in the Royal British Navy was invited by Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India to 'Indianize the military' during the 1950s. Blackett was awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society in 1940 and the American Medal for Merit in 1946. Patrick Blackett was head of the Physics department at Imperial College London. The current building of the Physics department at Imperial College is named the Blackett Laboratory.
Daulat Singh Kothari (Padma Bushan & Padma Vibhushan), the Scientific Advisor to India's Ministry of Defence is an outstanding physicist and educationalist. He is considered to be the architect of defence science in India. He is the founder of most of the DRDO labs in India such as the Naval Dockyard Laboratory (later renamed Naval Chemical and Metallurgical Laboratory) in Mumbai, the Indian Naval Physical Laboratory in Kochi, the Centre for Fire Research in Delhi, the Solid State Physics Laboratory in Delhi, the Defence Food Research Laboratory in Mysore, the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences in Chennai, the Directorate of Psychological Research in New Delhi, the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory in Hyderabad, the Scientific Evaluation Group in Delhi, and the Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory in Chandigarh. Dr. D.S. Kothari has also played a crucial role in setting up UGC and NCERT.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in his book, Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India wrote, “Dr. D.S. Kothari, a professor at Delhi University, was an outstanding physicist and astrophysicist. He is well known for ionisation of matter by pressure in cold compact object like planets. This theory is complementary to the epoch-making theory of thermal ionisation of his guru, Dr Maghnad Saha. Dr. D.S. Kothari set a scientific tradition in Indian defence tasks when he became Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister in 1948. The first thing he did was to establish the Defence Science Centre to do research in electronic materials, nuclear medicine and ballistic science."
Dr. D.S. Kothari and Dr. P Blackett worked together at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge University under the guidance of Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.
In 1967, the Indian Armament Studies was renamed as the "Institute of Armament Technology" (IAT) and was moved to its present location in Girinagar, Pune. From the relatively narrow scope of Armament Studies in the 1950s, the role of the institute was considerably enlarged by the Defence R&D Council in 1964, and then again in 1981.