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University Research Day

University Research Day on 12th August

Sankalchand Patel University declared to celebrate University Research Day on 12th August every year with the remembrance of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai who is the Father of Indian Space Programme; born and brough up in Gujarat. On the occasion of University Research Day our University will organize a grand gathering of various Researchers and Scholars together in the campus to exchange of knowledge and wisdom. Also, the constituent institutions of the university can come up with few events to promote the Research Culture among the students and Faculties.

Awards

  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1962)
  • Padma Bhushan (1966)
  • Padma Vibhushan, posthumous (after-death) (1972)

Distinguished Positions

  • President of the Physics section, Indian Science Congress (1962)
  • President of the General Conference of the I.A.E.A., Verína (1970)
  • Vice-President, Fourth U.N. Conference on ‘Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy’ (1971)

Honours

  • The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, (VSSC), a research institute specialising in solid and liquid propellants for rockets located in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), capital of Kerala state, is named in his memory.
  • In 1974, the International Astronomical Union at Sydney decided that a Moon Crater BESSEL in the Sea of Serenity will be known as the Dr. Sarabhai Crater.

Brief Note about Dr. Vikram Sarabhai

Dr.Vikram Sarabhai was born on 12 August 1919 in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat State in western India. The Sarabhai family was an important and rich Jain business family. His father Ambalal Sarabhai was an affluent industrialist and owned many mills in Gujarat. Vikram Sarabhai was one of the eight children of Ambalal and Sarla Devi.

Sarabhai matriculated from the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad after passing the Intermediate Science examination.

After that he moved to England and joined the St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. He received the Tripos in Natural Sciences from Cambridge in 1940.

With the escalation of the Second World War, Sarabhai returned to India and joined the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and began research in cosmic rays under the guidance of Sir C. V. Raman, a Nobel Prize winner.

He returned to Cambridge after the war in 1945 and was awarded a PhD degree in 1947 for his thesis titled Cosmic Ray investigation in Tropical Latitudes.

Dr. Vikram Sarabhai died on 30 December 1971 at Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source : https://www.isro.gov.in