Background
Rango Asundi was born on August 14, 1895, in Asundi, a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka in India.
Rango Asundi was born on August 14, 1895, in Asundi, a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka in India.
Rango Krishna Asundi studied at Bombay University, where he obtaibed B.A. in 1917 ; B.Sc. in 1919 ; M.Sc. in 1924.He obtained his PhD degree (1929) from the University of London, UK. His specialization was in physics particularly, in spectroscopy.
Rango was Reader and Chairman, Physics Department, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU); Professor of Physics (1939-1949), Professor of Spectroscopy (1949-1950) and Head (1953-1956), Department of Spectroscopy, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi; and Physicist, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay (1957-1982).