MEMBERSHIP
Prof DS Kothari Chair
Dr. D S Kothari (Padma Bushan & Padma
Vibhushan), then Scientific Advisor to Ministry of Defence, Government of India
is an outstanding physicist, educationalist and considered as the ‘Architect of
Defence Science’ in India. He was also
the founder of most of the DRDO labs in India.
In his honour DRDO decided to sponsor a fellowship in the name of Prof
DS Kothari Chair which commenced in the year 1998. The first Chair was allotted
to Rear Adm KR Menon (Retd), who researched on the subject “A Nuclear Strategy for
India”.
