Patcha Ramachandra Rao
Academic
1942 – 2010
Who was Patcha Ramachandra Rao?
Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University who was also a student and faculty at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. After his tenure as Vice Chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology as its first Vice-Chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
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- Born
- Mar 21, 1942
India - Religion
- Hindu
- Nationality
- India
- Education
- Indian Institute of Science
- Osmania University
- Banaras Hindu University
- Lived in
- Hyderabad
- Died
- Jan 10, 2010
Madurai
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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