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'''Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri''' (6 September 1917 – 25 June 2006) was an | '''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 (India)|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 (India)|Planning Commission]] and as Vice Chancellor of the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]]. | In the early 1970s, as the Scientific Advisor to the [[Ministry of Defence (India)|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 (India)|Planning Commission]] and as Vice Chancellor of the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]]. | ||