STEM BAALA

Top missile scientist DrTessy Thomas has been appointed as the Director General, Aeronautical Systems (DG-Aero) of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).


The appointment is on expected lines as DrTessy was selected as the top choice for the post a month back, to replace the current incumbent C P Ramanarayanan, who is set to retire on May 31. She will take charge on June 1.

Currently she is the Director of Advanced Systems Laboratories (ASL), Hyderabad.


DrTessy, already celebrated as the first woman DRDO woman scientist to head any missile program, will be DRDO’s third DG (Aero) following the restructuring a couple of years back.


She also becomes DRDO’s second woman DG (at the technical level) with J Manjula being the first, currently heading the Electronics and Communication Systems cluster. Manjula was appointed in September 2015. DrTessy will now shift her operational base from her favourite Missile Complex in Hyderabad to C V Raman Nagar in Bangalore.

5 interesting facts about Shakuntala Devi:-

* She holds the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Human Computation.”

*She was an ally of L.G.B.T.Q. people. she wrote “The World of Homosexuals,” which featured her research findings, including interviews with same-sex couples in India & abroad.

*She applied her mathematical strength to a pursuit of astrology.

*she wrote several books on math and her techniques, including “Puzzles to Puzzle You,” “Super Memory: It Can Be Yours” and “Mathability: Awaken the Math Genius in Your Child.”

*In 1980, Devi ran for Parliament, the Lok Sabha, as an independent candidate from two different localities — Mumbai and Medak

5 interesting facts about Sudha Murty:-

1)In the year 1995, she was awarded the ‘Best Teacher Award’ from Rotary Club at Bangalore.

2)In 1996, she started Infosys Foundation and to date, she has been the Trustee of Infosys Foundation and a Visiting Professor at the PG Center of Bangalore University.

3)Sudha Murty has also acted in the Marathi film ‘Pitruroon’ and a Kannada film ‘Prarthana’.

4)In the year 2018, Sudha Murty received the Life Time Achievement Award at the Crossword-Raymond Book Awards.

5)In an interview with the Filmfare magazine, she revealed that she has more than 500 DVDs in her home. She loves to watch movies and is a movie buff.

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