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Dr. R. Hradaynath who rose to the
level of a Distinguished Scientist in the Defence R&D
Organisation and superannuated as Director, IRDE., Dehradun
continued later for quite a few years as Scientist Emeritus
both with his parent Department and with the Council of
Scientific & Industrial Research besides being responsible
for the creation of a Photonics Laboratory at one of the
Research Centres of the Department of Electronics.
During his tenure as
Director and even earlier, he involved himself and his
colleagues in research, development and successful transfer of
technology to various new and established production agencies.
Thus for the first time in India, it was possible to produce a
series of night vision and laser devices in significant
numbers, competitive to the best in the world.
The
author has extensively lectured at various centres of learning
and has over seventy publications in scientific journals both
in India and abroad apart from quite a significant
contribution to classified documents for the Defence R&D
in the field of optics optronics and electro-optics. He has
also authored a text on `Optical Workshop Technology’ and
edited a milestone volume for the SPIE (USA) pertaining to
`Mirrors and Prisms’. | 