Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad

Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad was born on 21 February 1928 in a Telugu-speaking family at Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh to Punnamma and Nutakki Ramaseshaiah, a former Member of Parliament and Minister of Health at the Government of Odisha. This was followed by advanced research at Case Institute of Technology (1953) and returned to India the same year to join Aluminium Company of Canada, Montreal at its Kolkata subsidiary to work for a year. During this period, he also served as the project manager of CIRUS reactor from 1958 to 1961 when he retired from DAE service. He also served as a board member of Electronics Corporation of India Limited (1965–79) and Indian Overseas Bank (1969-78). Bhanu Prasad was married to Pendyala Ananthalakshmi and the couple had four sons. He died on 29 April 2013 in Hyderabad at the age of 85. ==Legacy and honours==

Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad was associated with three major Indian ventures such as the first nuclear reactor in Trombay, the development of Bombay High oil fields and the first Indian magnesium plant. He received the Petrotech Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. ==See also==