April 12 2020
Ramachandra Rao Dasari April 12, 2020 Share this obituary Send Flowers View/Sign Guestbook| Send Sympathy Card Ramachandra Rao Dasari age 87, passed away peacefully on April 12, 2020. Due to CDC guidelines during the COVID crisis, a private service was held on April 14, 2020. The family will hold a celebration of his life at a later date when it is safe to do so. Ramachandra was born in a small village in Andhra Pradesh, India, into a farming family. He was the first one in the family to be formally educated. With encouragement of his maternal Grandfather who was able to read and write he persevered through poverty with hard work to continue on his quest for higher education. After completing under graduation from Andhra University he went to Banaras Hindu University for his Masters in Physics. He completed his PhD program from Aligarh Muslim University in1960. He joined then nascent IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in the department of Physics in 1960-61. He took an opportunity to come to MIT in the US (1966-68) for 2 years at which time he worked in the lab that invented the first solid state Lasers and Laser spectroscopy. He returned to IITK and established the first Laser lab in India, fabricating the lasers indigenously. He returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1978 initially as a visiting Professor but then went on to stay at this institution for the next 40 years. Though he had taken retirement from being the Associate director of the MIT laser biomedical research center in 2007 at age of 75, he still continued his work on a part time basis. In 2008 he moved to Northwest Indiana to be close his family and grandchildren. His work still continued with frequent visits to MIT until 2017. His pride and joy were his students both at IITK and at MIT, their success will remain his lasting legacy. He leaves behind an endowment for annual lecture series in his name at both MIT and IITK to foster latest scientific research amongst the faculty and students. He is survived by his wife Suhasini, having completed 69 years of marriage, his son Satish Dasari MD and daughter in law Veda Praveena, daughter Lakshmi Dasari, and grandchildren Sidarth and Vivek. Many thanks to all our family and friends from all over the world who have expressed their love and admiration for Ramachandra. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Solan Pruzin Funeral Home. To share a memory or sign the digital guestbook visit Solanpruzinfuneralhome.com Print Obituary
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Ramachandra Rao Dasari April 12 2020.
Death notice for the town of: Schererville, state: Indiana
Suhassani, You can’t really know how sad I am to receive this news. We have lost track since the deaths of my parents, but you and Ram have remained very present in my mind. My deep sympathies to you and your children and their families. I know I speak for all my family, but I am sure you will also hear from some of them individually. My love to you all. — Susan Jones