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M K Vainu Bappu Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu was born on 10 August 1927 in Madras (now Chennai) to a senior astronomer in the Nizamiah Observatory, Hyderabad, Manali Kukuzhi Bappu. M K Vainu Bappu is credited as the man behind the creation of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. One of the greatest astronomers of India, Vainu Bappu has contributed much to the revival of optical astronomy in independent India. Vainu Bappu joined the prestigious Harvard University on a scholarship after receiving his MSc degree in physics from Madras University. Within a few months of completing his studies, he discovered a comet, which was then named Bappu- Bok-Newkirk after him and his colleagues Bart Bok and Gordon Newkirk. He completed his PhD in 1952 and joined the Palomar University in the US. He and Colin Wilson made an important observation about the luminosity of particular kind of stars and it came to be known as the Bappu-Wilson effect. He returned to India in 1953 and played a major role in building the Uttar Pradesh State Observatory in Nainital. In 1960, he took over as the Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory and contributed a lot in the modernisation of it. In 1986, he established India’s largest optical observatory with a powerful telescope in Kavalur, Tamil Nadu.
Awarded the prestigious Donhoe Comet Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in1949, Vainu Bappu was elected as the President of the International Astronomical Union in 1979. He was also elected as the Honorary Foreign Fellow of the Belgium Academy of Sciences and was an Honorary Member of the American Astronomical Society. Today, Vainu Bappu is regarded as the father of modern Indian astronomy. *****
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