ISRO’s K Radhakrishnan is one of world’s top 10 scientists of 2014.
For the first time in recent years, an Indian scientist working in India has been chosen as one of the top scientists of the year.
Science journal Nature, in a recent announcement, has named ISRO chairperson K Radhakrishnan as one of the 2014 top 10 scientists for his contribution to the Indian space odyssey.
In September 2014, India's Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan joined three other orbiters of European Space Agency and NASA in the orbit of the Red Planet. With this, India became the fourth country to have achieved the feat and the first country to have done this successfully in the first go. The mission aims to enable scientists to better understand how Mars transformed from a once water-rich planet to today's drier, colder and less hospitable world.
However, this was not the only success that India tasted in the domain of space exploration. On December 18, the national space agency had successfully tested an unmanned crew module on board an experimental mission of its heaviest rocket GSLV Mark-III.
Before this, in January 2014, ISRO had successfully launched India's heavy rocket GSLV-D5 with an indigenous cryogenic engine from the spaceport at Sriharikota. With this, ISRO had become the sixth agency in the world after the US, Russia, Japan, China and France to have achieved success with an indigenous cryogenic engine.
Apart from Radhakrishnan, another Indian-origin researcher, Radhika Nagpal, has been featured in the prestigious list. She has been recognised for using biology-inspired robotics to get a swarm of 1,024 robots to assemble and form various shapes.
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