Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture Award


Prof. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture Award is given for the outstanding contributions in the subject of Spectroscopy in Physics. The award was established by the Indian National Science Academy of Calcutta in the year 1979. The honour is awarded to Indian citizens.

History

The Memorial Lecture Award was established in the year 1979 in the honour of Professor Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao by the students of Prof. K.Rangadhama Rao and Indian National Science Academy, formerly National Institute of Sciences of India, Calcutta. The lecture is awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of Spectroscopy. The award carries an honorarium of Rs. 25,000/- and a citation.
The below lists the recipients of the Memorial Award since its inception in the year 1979.

Recipients

Source:
S.NoNameBirth / deathAwardedContributionIndian state or country of origin
1.R. K. Asundi1895 - 19821979Molecules In Interstellar SpaceKarnataka
2.K. Narahari Rao1921 - 20011981High-resolution infrared spectroscopy. He pioneered improvements in wavelength standards and advanced methods of achieving higher resolutionAndhra Pradesh
3.Nishtala Appala Narasimham1922 - 20021983A Search For Organic Molecules In Space : High Resolution Infrared Laser Diode And Radio Frequency Spectroscopic StudiesAndhra Pradesh
4.V. G. Bhide1940 - 20061985Research on solid state physics. Research in Mössbauer spectroscopy and its applications to Materials Science.
5.P. T. Manoharan1987
6.Mihir Chowdhury1937-1989Work on Two-Photon processes in biomolecules and dynamics of excited state proton transfer.
7.V. B. Kartha1991Laser Spectroscopy In Atomic And Molecular Physics
8.Anil Kumar1996Bangalore, Karnataka
9.Ajay K. Sood1951-2000
10.N. Chandrakumar2004Coherence Transformations and their Applications in NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging
11.Dipankar Das Sarma2008X-ray spectroscopy elucidating the novel physics of strongly correlated systems
12.Ajit Chand Kunwar2011