Question

Name the first Indian president of IAU

Answer 1

Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu was the first Indian president of IAU

He was an indian astronomer and the president of  the International Astronomical Union

He was born on  August 10, 1927, in Chennai

Answer 2

Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu was born on 10th August, 1927. He is deemed as the father of modern Indian astronomy. He died on the 19th August, 1982.

Vainu Bappu was an Indian astronomer and the first Indian president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He is played an important role in the inception of several astronomical institutions in India which includes Vainu Bappu Observatory.
 
He also greatly contributed in the foundation of the modern Indian Institute of Astrophysics. He also made a discovery in 1957 about the  Wilson-Bappu effect in collaboration with American astronomer Olin Chaddock Wilson.