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Mar 21, 1942 Died on 10 Jan 2010 (aged 67)
Indian metallurgist
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About Patcha Ramachandra Rao
- Patcha Ramachandra Rao (21 March 1942 – 10 January 2010) was a metallurgist and administrator.
- He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution.
- From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur.
- After his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of B.H.U., in 2005, he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first Vice-Chancellor.
- He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007.
- From 2007 till the end, Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
