Ram Narain Agarwal is noted scientist and an aerospace engineer of India

India

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 and is known as father of the Agni

Agni

Agni is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire and the acceptor of sacrifices. The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger from and to the other gods...

 series of surface-to-surface missiles.

He was born in Jaipur

Jaipur

Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

 in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 state in a family of traders. He has long experience in Missile Technology. Agarwal has worked as Program Director (AGNI) and as Director Advanced Systems Laboratory and of DRDO.

Education and qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• Masters Degree in Engineering, from Aero-Indian Institute of Science
  Indian Institute of Science
  Indian Institute of Science is a research institution of higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It was established in 1909.-History:After a chance meeting between Jamsetji N...
  
  , Bangalore
  Bangalore
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• Fellow Membership in the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Aeronautical Society of India
  Aeronautical Society of India
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Awards

• Padma Shri
  Padma Shri
  Padma Shri is the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan...
  
   in the year 1990
• Padma Bhushan
  Padma Bhushan
  The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
  
   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).