# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nandivada-rathnasree
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:43:01.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nandivada-rathnasree"
name: "Nandivada Rathnasree"
slug: "nandivada-rathnasree"
description: "Nandivada Rathnasree or N. Rathnasree was an Indian astrophysicist, science communicator, and science historian, who was the director of India's Nehru Planetarium for over twenty years. She was responsible for improvements to the planetarium, as well as for researching the use of historical architectural astronomical instruments in India. She is known for her work in science communication."
tagline: "Indian astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rathnasree_Nandivada_-_Kolkata_2011-09-24_5685.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1963-11-26"
deathDate: "2021-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump