Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, based on 3 World History Database records associated with India.

3 records1940–19503 events1 places

Chronological biography

1940

Scientific Research Organisation1940

Science / Technology · Director · Board of Scientific and Industrial Research · New Delhi

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar becomes a central organiser of the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, strengthening coordinated applied research in India.

1942

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research1942

Science / Technology · Director · CSIR · New Delhi

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar becomes the founding director of CSIR and begins building a national network of scientific laboratories.

1950

National Physical Laboratory1950

Science / Technology · Director · CSIR · New Delhi

Bhatnagar's CSIR laboratory programme establishes the National Physical Laboratory as a major centre for standards, materials and measurement research.

Titles and roles

Director · Board of Scientific and Industrial Research · Director · CSIR

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.