Dr. R. Chidambaram

                                 Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram completed his PhD at the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore and joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in 1962. He took over as Director BARC in 1990. He was Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Govt. of India in the Department of Atomic Energy from February 1993 to November 2000. He is one of India's distinguished experimental physicists and the research groups established by him in BARC in the fields of High Pressure Physics and Neutron Crystallography are regarded among the best in the world. He is currently serving as Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India.