Patcha Ramachandra Rao Scientist

Patcha Ramachandra Rao (21 March 1942 – 10 January 2010) was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. After his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first Vice-Chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Personal facts

Birth date	March 21, 1942
Birth place	Andhra Pradesh , British Raj , Kavutavaram
Nationality	India
Citizenship	India
Date of death	January 10, 2010
Place of death	India , Madurai
Residence	India , Hyderabad
Education	Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi Indian Institute of Science Osmania University
Spouse	Sudha Rao

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Scientist

awards	National Metallurgist Award Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Gold Medal INSA Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize CSIR
doctoral advisor	Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman
doctoral student	Arvind Sinha Awadh Bihari Pandey Dipayan Sanyal Gautam Kumar Dey Ghanta S. Reddy Gunturi V.S.Sastry Kamanio Chattopadhyay Sambhu Nath Ojha Sanjay Chaube Sushil Kumar Mandal Swati Haldar T.K.Siva Prasad
Field of study	Materials science Metallurgy