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Life & Career
Dr. V. N. Krishnamurthy (born January 12, 1937) is the former Dy. Director of VSSC and Honorable Director of ISRO-UoP Interaction cell. He obtained his M.Sc. from Madras University and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1967. He joined Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, (Indian Space Research Organization) in February 1968 as chief of Analytical facility. Become head, Propellant Engineering Division in 1976, Group Director Propellants Group in 1986 and Deputy Director in 1989 before retiring in February 1997. After retiring, he became the Honorary Director of DRDO-ISRO-UoP Cells, which coordinates the activities undertaken for ISRO & DRDO at University of Pune. His tenure was over in August 2004 and at present he is working as an editor for two different encyclopaedias.

Research
His main interests are in solid propellants for launch vehicles & sounding rockets, polymers and materials indigenisation. He was responsible for the development of propellants based on HEF20, ISRO polyol, PBAN, CTPB and HTPB for launch vehicles. Indigenised and scaled up all the polymers used as binders in launch vehicles. Important contributions are development of HTPB based propellants currently used in Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and Geostationary Launch Vehicle stages, igniters and auxiliary rocket motors.

He has also composed the poems of Kamala Surayya, a famous Indian writer, through the album Surayya Padunnu

Death
MG Radhakrishnan died from liver disease on 2 July 2010 at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.