Baldev Raj (9 April 1947 – 6 January 2018) was an Indian scientist and director of the

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is one of India's premier nuclear research centres. It is the second largest establishment of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), next to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), located at Kal ...

(IGCAR) in

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, India.

Education

He had a Bachelors in Engineering (B.E.) from Government Engineering College, Raipur

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(Now National Institute of Technology, Raipur), and a PhD from IISc, Bangalore, D.Sc. (h.c.) from Sathyabama Deemed University, Chennai.

Career

He was director of the

(IGCAR) in

, India. He was also the director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies. He died on 6 January 2018 in

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from an apparent cardiac arrest.

Awards

He was awarded one of the H K Firodia awards,

padma shri award Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferr ...

also for 2015.

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