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Vainu Bappu was born on 10 August, 1927 in India, is an Indian astronomer. Discover Vainu Bappu's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?
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Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (10 August 1927 – 19 August 1982) was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union.
Bappu helped to establish several astronomical institutions in India, including the Vainu Bappu Observatory which is named after him, and he also contributed to the establishment of the modern Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
Vainu Bappu was born on 10 August 1927, in Chennai, as the only child of Manali Kukuzhi Bappu and Kallat Sunanna Bappu.
His family originally hails from Thalassery in Kerala.
His father was an astronomer at the Nizamiah Observatory in Telangana.
He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Astronomy for his PhD after obtaining postgraduate degree from the Madras University.
Bappu, along with two of his colleagues, discovered the 'Bappu-Bok-Newkirk' comet.
On 2 July 1949, when Bappu was taking pictures of the night sky, he spotted a bright moving object which he had rightfully understood to be a comet.
When he turned to his professor, Bart Bok, and colleague Gordon Newkirk, they confirmed the discovery.
They calculated the orbit of the comet which revealed that the comet would reappear only after 60,000 years.
The International Astronomical Union officially named the comet as the Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet (C/1949N1).
Bappu also received the Donohoe Comet Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
This is the only comet with an Indian name.
He was awarded the Donhoe Comet-Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1949.
In 1957, he discovered the Wilson–Bappu effect jointly with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson.
In a paper published in 1957, American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson and Bappu had described what would later be known as the Wilson–Bappu effect.
The effect as described by L.V. Kuhi is: 'The width of the Ca II emission in normal, nonvariable, G, K, and M stars is correlated with the visual absolute magnitude in the sense that the brighter the star the wider the emission.' The paper opened up the field of stellar chromospheres for research.
On his return to India, Bappu was appointed to head a team of astronomers to build an observatory at Nainital.
His efforts of building an indigenous large optical telescope and a research observatory led to the founding of the optical observatory of Kavalur and its large telescope.
The Vainu Bappu Observatory is one of the main observatories of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, also initiated in its modern avatar by Bappu in 1971.
Later, a number of discoveries were made from the Vainu Bappu Observatory.
