Vishwa Vidyapeeth Group of School

Shri Nambi Narayanan is an Indian aerospace scientist who worked for the Indian Space Research Organisation. As a senior official at the ISRO, he was briefly in charge of the cryogenics division. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award, in March 2019. He completed his schooling at Higher Secondary School, Nagercoil. He received a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. After studying mechanical engineering in Madurai, he started his career in 1966 at ISRO as a technical assistant at the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. He was sent to Princeton University on deputation at Government of India‘s expense in 1969. He completed his master’s program there in chemical rocket propulsion under professor Luigi Crocco. He returned to India with expertise in liquid propulsion at a time when Indian rocketry was still solely dependent on solid propellants.