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CRSI Medal of Honour
Lifetime achievement awards (CRSI Gold Medal):
2012 V. Krishnan (Bangalore)
2011 P. Natarajan (Chennai)
2010 P.T. Manoharan (Chennai)
2009 S. Rajappa (Pune), Harjit Singh (Amritsar)
2008 D.K. Chattoraj (Kolkata), S.K. Rangarajan (Bangalore)
2007 Mihir Chowdhury (Kolkata), N.S. Narasimhan (Pune)
2006
A.V. Rama Rao (Hyderabad), Subramania Ranganathan (Hyderabad)
2005 K. Nagarajan (Bangalore)
2004 A. Chakravorty (Kolkata), M.M. Sharma (Mumbai)
2003 U.R. Ghatak (Kolkata), S.V. Kessar (Chandigarh)
2002 M.V. George (Trivandrum), R.P. Rastogi (Lucknow)
2001 S. Swaminathan (Chennai)
2000 Sukh Dev (Delhi), T.R. Govindachari (Chennai),
R.C. Mehrotra (Jaipur)
CRSI Medalists
2012
CRSI Medal
M. A. Subramanian (Corvallis)
Arun. K. Ghosh (Purdue)
Dr. K. Kalyanasundram (Lausanne)
Silver Medal
Uday Maitra (Bangalore)
H. B. Singh (Mumbai)
T. P. Radhakrishnan (Hyderabad)
Tulsi Mukherjee (Mumbai)
Bronze Medal
M. Ravikanth (Mumbai)
P. Dastidar (Kolkata)
J. K. Bera (Kanpur)
B. M. Bhanage (Mumbai)
A. Dandia (Jaipur)
V. R. Pedireddi (Bhubaneswar)
G. Panda (Lucknow)
M. Swaminathan (Chidambaram)
P. Ghosh (Kolkata)
H. N. Ghosh (Mumbai)
K. K. Ghosh (Raipur)
Prof. C. N. R. Rao National Prize for Chemical Research: A. K. Tyagi (Mumbai)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture (Instituted by AVRA Labs): Reshef Tenne (Rehovot)
Prof. Animesh Chakravorty Endowment Lecture: Franc Meyer (Goettingen)
2011
CRSI Medal
Prashat V. Kamat (Notre Dame)
Ayusman Sen (College Park)
V. Ramamurthy (Miami)
Silver Medal
V. Chandrasekhar (Kanpur)
P.R. Vasudeva Rao (Kalpakkam)
R.N. Mukherjee (Kanpur)
Vishwakarma Singh (Mumbai)
Bronze Medal
Sanjay Batra (Lucknow)
Biswajit Ganguly (Bhavnagar)
G. Mugesh (Bangalore)
Haridas Pal (Mumbai)
B.R. Srinivasan (Goa)
Prashanta K. Das (Kolkata)
Manoj Kumar (Amritsar)
Chaitali Mukhopadhyay (Kolkata)
R. Raghunathan (Chennai)
A. Sundaresan (Bangalore)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture (Instituted by AVRA Labs): Jeremy K.M. Sanders (Cambridge)
Fifth Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture: Amitabha Chattopadhyay (Hyderabad)
2010
CRSI Medal
G.K. Surya Prakash (Los Angeles)
Silver Medal
Brindaban C. Ranu (Kolkata)
K.L. Sebastian (Bangalore)
Bronze Medal
Arindam Banerjee (Kolkata)
Basudeb Basu (Siliguri)
Samar K. Das (Hyderabad)
Goutam De (Kolkata)
Nashreen Islam (Tezpur)
J. Narasimhamurthy (Kanpur)
Tanmaya Pathak (Kharagpur)
Amitava Patra (Kolkata)
S. Sankararaman (Chennai)
G. Narahari Sastry (Hyderabad)
Pradeep K. Tripathi (Pune)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture (Instituted by AVRA Labs): Matt Rosseinsky (Liverpool)
Prof. Animesh Chakravorty Endowment Lecture: Jan Reedijk (Leiden University)
2009
Silver Medal
Santanu Bhattacharya (Bangalore)
Suresh Das (Trivandrum)
Sourav Pal (Pune)
A.K. Shukla (Karaikudi)
Bronze Medal
S. Balasubramanian (Bangalore)
Amitabha Das (Bhavnagar)
C.S. Gopinath (Pune)
Balaji Jagirdar (Bangalore)
S. Mashraqui (Mumbai)
Lallan Mishra (Varanasi)
Kamaljit Singh (Amritsar)
V.V. Suresh Babu (Bangalore)
L.D.S. Yadav (Allahabad)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture (Instituted by AVRA Labs): Peter Edwards (Oxford)
Fourth Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture: M.J. Swamy (Hyderabad)
2008
Silver Medal
D. Basavaiah (Hyderabad)
N. Chandrakumar (Chennai)
T.K. Chandrashekar (Trivandrum)
Ganesh P. Pandey (Pune)
S. Ramasesha (Bangalore)
Bronze Medal
E. Arunan (Bangalore)
M.S. Balakrishna (Mumbai)
S. Baskaran (Chennai)
Prasad V. Bharatam (Mohali)
N. Jayaraman (Bangalore)
F.A. Khan (Kanpur)
Samudranil Pal (Hyderabad)
Parimal Paul (Bhavnagar)
H.S.P. Rao (Pondicherry)
Debasish Ray (Kharagpur)
S.C. Roy (Kolkata)
V. Subramanian (Chennai)
Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture (Instituted by AVRA Labs): Mark A. Ratner (Northwestern University)
2007
Silver Medal
A.R. Chakravarty (Bangalore)
M. Periasamy (Hyderabad)
N. Periasamy (Mumbai)
Bronze Medal
N.C. Barua (Jorhat)
K.K. Bhasin (Chandigarh)
K.R. Gopidas (Trivandrum)
A.K. Ganguli (Delhi)
R.V. Jasra (Bhavnagar)
T. Pal (Kharagpur)
S.K. Pati (Bangalore)
K.S. Rangappa (Mysore)
M.V. Sangaranarayanan (Chennai)
G. Sundararajan (Chennai)
Third Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture: Santanu Bhattacharya (Bangalore)
2006
Silver Medal
Kankan Bhattacharya (Kolkata)
G. Vijay Nair (Trivandrum)
Bronze Medal
J.B. Baruah (Guwahati)
Samaresh Bhattacharya (Kolkata)
Asit K. Chakrabarty (Mohali)
Amalendu Chandra (Kanpur)
Ahmed Kamal (Hyderabad)
S. Muthusamy (Bhavnagar)
Arun K. Nandi (Kolkata)
A.K. Tyagi (Mumbai)
M. Vairamani (Hyderabad)
Sandeep Verma (Kanpur)
Fourth Prof. C.N.R. Rao Lecture (instituted by AV Rama Rao Research Foundation, Hyderabad): M.L. Klein (Philadelphia)
First Prof. Animesh Chakravorty Award Lecture: K. Wieghardt (Mulheim)
First Mizushima-Raman Lecture: Mitsua Tasumi (Saitama)
2005
Silver Medal
B.M. Choudary (Hyderabad)
K.N. Ganesh (Pune)
Swapan K. Ghosh (Mumabai)
Bronze Medal
R.C. Boruah (Jorhat)
Charusita Chakrabarty (New Delhi)
R. Murugavel (Mumbai)
D.S. Pandey (Rewa)
P.T. Perumal (Chennai)
T. Pradeep (Chennai)
Sujit Roy (Kharagpur)
S. Sampath (Bangalore)
J. Santhanalakshmi (Chennai)
Amitabha Sarkar (Kolkata)
K. George Thomas (Trivandrum)
Ram Vishwakarma (New Delhi)
Third Prof. C.N.R. Rao Lecture (instituted by AV Rama Rao Research Foundation, Hyderabad): Fred Wudl (Los Angeles)
Second Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture: Raghavan Varadarajan (Bangalore)
2004
Silver Medal
S.R. Gadre (Pune)
J. Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore)
K.C. Majumder (Kalyani)
Bronze Medal
Y.K. Agarwal (Ahmedabad)
Amit Basak (Kharagpur)
Ramesh Chandra (Delhi)
S.M.S. Chauhan (Delhi)
Subrata Ghosh (Kolkata)
Sambasivarao Kotha (Mumbai)
Subodh Kumar (Amritsar)
V. Jayatirtha Rao (Hyderabad)
C. Pulla Rao (Mumbai)
Anunay Samanta (Hyderabad)
Vinod K. Singh (Kanpur)
S. Umapathy (Bangalore)
K. Vijayamohanan (Pune)
Second Prof. C.N.R. Rao Lecture (instituted by AV Rama Rao Research Foundation, Hyderabad): H.W. Roesky (Goettingen)
2003
Silver Medal
B. Bagchi (Bangalore) [13 MB powerpoint file]
S.S. Krishnamurthy (Bangalore)
T. Ramasami (Chennai)
J.S. Yadav (Hyderabad)
Bronze Medal
Pinaki Bandyopadhyay (Siliguri)
P.K. Bharadwaj (Kanpur)
Aruna Dhathathreyan (Chennai)
D. Dhavale (Pune)
P. Ghosh (Bhavnagar)
T.N. Guru Row (Bangalore)
G.U. Kulkarni (Bangalore)
K.C. Kumaraswamy (Hyderabad)
P. Pramanik (Kharagpur)
D. Ramaiah (Trivandrum)
S.J. Reddy (Tirupati)
H.B. Singh (Mumbai)
R.V. Venkateswaran (Kolkata)
First Prof. C.N.R. Rao Lecture (instituted by AV Rama Rao Research Foundation, Hyderabad): A.K. Cheetham (UC, Santa Barbara)
First Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture: K.N. Ganesh (Pune)
2002
Silver Medal
J.C. Ahluwalia (New Delhi)
P.K. Bhattacharya (Baroda)
S. Chandrasekaran (Bangalore)
H. Ila (Kanpur)
E.D. Jemmis (Hyderabad)
S. Mitra (Mumbai)
K.J. Rao (Bangalore)
N. Sathyamurthy (Kanpur)
S. Sivaram (Pune)
Bronze Medal
A. Ajayaghosh (Trivandrum)
T.K. Chakraborty (Hyderabad)
V. Chandrasekhar (Kanpur)
P.K. Das (Bangalore)
S. Goswami (Calcutta)
T.S. Lobana (Amritsar)
S. Mazumdar (Mumbai)
D.K. Palit (Mumbai)
P. Ramamurthy (Chennai)
T.P. Radhakrishnan (Hyderabad)
S. Ramakrishnan (Bangalore)
Murali Sastry (Pune)
S. Sengupta (Calcutta)
Sanjay Trehan (Chandigarh)
R. Viswanathan (Chennai)
B. Unni Nair (Chennai)
2001
Silver Medal
D. Mukherjee (Calcutta)
D.V.S. Jain (Chandigarh)
V. Krishnan (Bangalore)
P. Natarajan (Chennai)
A.V. Rama Rao (Hyderabad)
S. Ranganathan (Hyderabad)
Harjit Singh(Amritsar)
Bronze Medal
Anil Kumar (Pune)
B.G. Maiya (Hyderabad)
S. Bhattacharya (Bangalore)
V.K. Jain(Mumbai)
G. Krishnamoorthy (Mumbai)
A.K. Mishra (Chennai)
S. Natarajan (Bangalore)
V.S. Parmar (Delhi)
P. Mathur (Mumbai)
R. Mukherjee (Kanpur)
B.C. Ranu (Calcutta)
T.K. Sarkar (Kharagpur)
I.B. Sharma (Jammu)
Y.D. Vankar (Kanpur)
S. Vasudevan (Bangalore)
2000
Silver Medal
B.M. Deb (Chandigarh)
G.R. Desiraju (Hyderabad)
P.T. Manoharan (Chennai)
G. Mehta (Bangalore)
M. Chowdhury (Calcutta)
J.P. Mittal (Mumbai)
P. Ratnasamy (Pune)
Bronze Medal
A.K. Bakshi (Delhi)
D. Basavaiah (Hyderabad)
T.K. Chandrasekhar (Kanpur)
P.K. Chattaraj (Kharagpur)
S. Das (Trivandrum)
A. Jayaram (Delhi)
U. Maitra (Bangalore)
S. Pal (Pune)
M. Palaniandavar (Trichy)
R. Ramaraj (Madurai)
A.G. Samuelson (Bangalore)
V.K. Singh (Mumbai)