Ram Narain Agarwal is a noted

aerospace engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is s ...

of India. He has significantly contributed towards the

Agni Agni (English: , sa, अग्नि, translit=Agni) is a Sanskrit word meaning fire and connotes the Vedic fire deity of Hinduism. He is also the guardian deity of the southeast direction and is typically found in southeast corners of Hi ...

series of surface-to-surface missiles. and is considered the 'father of the Agni series of missiles'. He was born to a family of traders in

Jaipur Jaipur (; Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. , the city had a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country. Jaipur is also known a ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern ...

. Agarwal has worked as Program Director (AGNI) and as Director Advanced Systems Laboratory of the

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(DRDO).

Awards

Padma Shri 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 conf ...

in the year 1990 *

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in the year 2000 *Dr. Biren Roy Space Science Award (1990) from Aero Society of India *Scientist of the Year Award (1993) *DRDO Technology Leadership Award (1998) *Chandrasekhar Saraswati National Eminence Award for Science (2000) *Life Time Achievement Award (2004).

References

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