VAINU BAPPU Father of Modern Indian ASTRONOMY
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (August 10, 1927 – August 19, 1982) was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union . Bappu helped establish several astronomical institutions in India——including the Vainu Bappu Observatory named after him—and also contributed to the establishment of the modern Indian Institute of Astrophysics . In 1957, he discovered the Wilson-Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson . He is regarded as the father of modern Indian astronomy. Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu Vainu Bappu was born in an Thiyya family on August 10, 1927, in Chennai , as the only child of Manali Kukuzhi and Sunanna Bappu.His family originally hails from Thalassery in Kerala . His father was an astronomer at the Nizamiah Observatory in Andhra Pradesh .He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Astronomy for his PhD after obtaining postgraduate degree from the Madras University . Bappu, along with two of his