# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasant-gowarikar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:44.553Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasant-gowarikar"
name: "Vasant Gowarikar"
slug: "vasant-gowarikar"
description: "Vasant Ranchhod Gowariker was an Indian scientist. He was a director in the Indian Space Research Organization and also the scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1993. Gowariker made valuable contributions to the fields of space research, weather and population. He was well known for his monsoon forecast model as he was the first scientist to develop an indigenous weather forecasting model that predicted the monsoon correctly."
tagline: "Indian Scientist (1933-2015)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-03-25"
deathDate: "2015-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.215012
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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