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. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh and a citation.
Awardees
+ Recipients of SASTRA-CNR Rao Award Year Name Affiliation at the time of the award 2014 Suresh Das National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram Sourav Pal National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 2015 K N Ganesh Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune V Chandrasekhar National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar2016 T K Chandraeskhar Science and Engineering Research Board N Sathyamurthy Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali 2017 Baldev Raj National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore S Chandrasekhar Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 2018 A K Sood Santanu Bhattacharya Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2019 G U Kulkarni Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bangalore R Murugavel IIT Bombay 2020 J N Moorthy Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram S Sampath Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2021 A K Ganguli Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi G Mugesh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2022 T Govindaraju Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Sandeep Verma Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi
See also
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
References