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 ...