SASTRA-CNR Rao Award

SASTRA-CNR Rao Award is an award instituted by SASTRA University, a private and deemed university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, to honor excellence in chemistry and material science, the two areas in which C N R Rao has made great, important and substantial contributions. The Award was instituted in 2013 and the first award was presented jointly to Suresh Das the then Director of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram and Sourav Pal, the Director of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on 28 February 2014.[1] The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh and a citation.

Awardees
Recipients of SASTRA-CNR Rao Award
YearNameAffiliation at the time of the award
2014Suresh DasNational Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
Sourav PalNational Chemical Laboratory, Pune
2015[2]K N GaneshIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
V ChandrasekharNational Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
2016[3]T K ChandraeskharScience and Engineering Research Board
N SathyamurthyIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
2017[4]Baldev RajNational Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
S ChandrasekharIndian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
2018[5]A K Sood
Santanu BhattacharyaIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2019[6]G U KulkarniCentre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bangalore
R MurugavelIIT Bombay
2020[7]J N MoorthyIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
S SampathIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2021[8]A K GanguliIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi
G MugeshIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2022[9]T GovindarajuJawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
Sandeep VermaScience and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi

See also

References
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