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Nirupama Raghavan
Nirupama Raghavan (19 July 1940, Madras – 23 February 2007, Chennai) was an Indian astrophysicist, weather scientist, historian of science and educator. She was the Director of the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi.
Nirupama was born in Madras on 19 July 1940.
In 1959, she received an undergraduate degree in physics at Women's Christian College, Madras. Her master's degree was from the Presidency College, which she followed up with a doctorate in astronomy with work at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
She married Raghavan, a metallurgist at Kharagpur, and moved to the United States with him.
Her thesis advisor was Vainu Bappu. Her dissertation (1968) investigated the line asymmetry in sunspots and line profiles of carbon molecules.
She died of cancer in February 2007 in Chennai. To honour her achievements, especially in the outreach to students, a Space Fair was held at the Nehru Planetarium, Delhi, in March 2007.
Nirupama Raghavan was the first woman in the field of observational astronomy in India.
On her family's return to India from the United States in 1982, she joined the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi.
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Nirupama Raghavan
Nirupama Raghavan (19 July 1940, Madras – 23 February 2007, Chennai) was an Indian astrophysicist, weather scientist, historian of science and educator. She was the Director of the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi.
Nirupama was born in Madras on 19 July 1940.
In 1959, she received an undergraduate degree in physics at Women's Christian College, Madras. Her master's degree was from the Presidency College, which she followed up with a doctorate in astronomy with work at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
She married Raghavan, a metallurgist at Kharagpur, and moved to the United States with him.
Her thesis advisor was Vainu Bappu. Her dissertation (1968) investigated the line asymmetry in sunspots and line profiles of carbon molecules.
She died of cancer in February 2007 in Chennai. To honour her achievements, especially in the outreach to students, a Space Fair was held at the Nehru Planetarium, Delhi, in March 2007.
Nirupama Raghavan was the first woman in the field of observational astronomy in India.
On her family's return to India from the United States in 1982, she joined the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi.