Kodavatiganti Rohini Prasad (14 September 1949 – 8 September 2012) was an author and retired scientist of

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, Mumbai. He is the son of the Telugu writer Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao. Kodavatiganti wrote books on

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, and other subjects in his mother tongue

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. He also wrote in several online magazines. He also researched the

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Personal life

Rohini Prasad was born to Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao, Varudhini. His maternal uncle Kommuri Sambasiva Rao is a Telugu author. He completed M.Sc in

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from

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, Visakhapatnam. After that he joined

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as a research scientist. He got his PhD from Bombay University for his research on Radio Activity devices. He worked there for 30 years and then retired. After his retirement he worked as a consultant in

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, United States. He also worked as a consultant in ECIL.

Death

He died on 8 September 2012 in Mumbai from complications related to

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. As he was a rationalist and a scientist, his family decided to donate his body to a medical college instead of the customary cremation.

References

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