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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 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 and as Vice Chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. ==Early life== Nagchaudhuri was born on 6 September 1917 in Barodi village of Dhaka district.〔 His father U. C. Nag was a Professor of English at Dhaka University. He was the eldest of seven sons, one of whom died quite young. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Banaras Hindu University.〔 He obtained a Master's degree from Allahabad University. In Allahabad, he met influential lawyer Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar as well as renowned Indian physicist, Meghnad Saha. He became close to Saha and joined his research group. In July 1938, when Saha moved to University of Calcutta, Nagchaudhuri moved with him. Through Saha, he came in contact with Ernest Lawrence and with the latter's support he moved to the University of California, Berkeley at the end of 1938 to work on his doctorate in Nuclear Physics.〔 His thesis advisor was Ernest Lawrence . Nagchaudhuri completed his doctorate in 1941 and returned to India. After the partition of India in 1947 and the ensuing violence against Hindus in Dhaka, his family moved to India. His father took a position as a professor in the Department of English at the Banaras Hindu University.〔 Nagchaudhuri was married to Dipali Nag née Talukdar, daughter of a professor at St. Johns College, Agra. Dipali Nag was a well-known classical vocalist.〔 They had one son. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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