Vikram Sarabhai, the Father of ISRO, Honoured by Google Doodle on His 100th Birthday

New Delhi: Google is celebrating the 100th birthday of Dr Vikram Sarabhai, the father of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Sarabhai is an award-winning Indian physicist, industrialist, and innovator. However, he is most fondly remembered for the establishment of ISRO.

Dr Sarabhai established the Indian National Committee for Space Research in 1962, which was later renamed to ISRO. Beyond his personal interest in cosmic rays, rockets, and satellites, Dr. Sarabhai believed in using science and technology as “levers of development.”

Born in Ahmedabad on August 12, 1919, Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai attended Gujarat College before travelling to England to earn his doctorate at Cambridge.