INSA :: Awards Recipients

Recipients of
-INSA Young Scientist
-INSA Teachers Award
-INSA Young Historian of Science Award

Recipients of Medals/Lectures Awards

International Awards
INSA-Vainu Bappu Memorial Award 1985 S Chandrasekhar 1986 M John Rees 1987 G Swarup 1988 JV Narlikar 1989 G Burbidge 1990 AA Penzias 1990 RW Wilson 1991 AK Raychaudhuri 1992 RR Daniel 1993 JP Ostriker 1994 B Buti 1995 SM Chitre 1996 A Hewish 1997 R Cowsik 1998 KD Abhyankar 2001 No Award 2004 No Award 2007 T Padmanabhan 2010 S Ananthakrishnan 2013 Arnold Wolfendale 2016 Anil Bhardwaj	Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal 1990 Karl Sune Bergstrom 1993 Sir Michael Atiyah 1996 S Nagakura 1999 F Gros 2000 Bruce Alberts 2001 Hubert Markyl 2002 No Award 2003 Hubert Curien 2004 Yuan T Lee 2005 Vladimir G Kadyshevsky 2006 Paul J Crutzen 2007 David King 2010 Lu Yongxiang 2013 Alain Carpentiar 2016 Venky Ramakrishnan
General Medals & Lecture Awards
The Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Medal 1979 Salim Ali 1982 GN Ramachandran 1985 MGK Menon 1988 C Gopalan 1991 AP Mitra 1993 G Swarup 1995 AS Paintal 1997 PN Tandon 1999 SK Joshi 2001 S Varadarajan 2003 G Mehta 2005 MS Bamji 2007 GS Khush 2010 S Dattagupta 2013 R Chidambaram 2016 N Sathyamurthy	The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Medal 1959 Atma Ram 1962 No Award 1964 TR Seshadri 1966 DS Kothari 1968 P Ray 1970 S Bhagavantam 1972 No Award 1974 AN Khosla 1976 No Award 1979 Braham Prakash 1982 TR Anantharaman 1985 R Narasimha 1988 Dinesh Mohan 1991 BK Bachhawat 1993 MA Viswamitra 1995 CS Seshadri 1997 R Kumar 1999 G Padmanaban 2001 RA Mashelkar 2003 NH Wadia 2005 P Ramachandra Rao 2007 NK Ganguly 2010 Anupam Varma 2013 Indira Nath 2016 V Ravindranath
The Meghnad Saha Medal 1958 SN Bose 1961 HN Bhabha 1963 DN Wadia 1965 DM Bose 1967 No Award 1969 CR Rao 1971 TR Seshadri 1973 No Award 1975 TR Govindachari 1978 DS Kothari 1981 MS Swaminathan 1984 R Ramanna 1987 Sukh Dev 1990 CNR Rao 1992 S Chandrasekhar 1994 MM Sharma 1996 SV Kessar 1998 AK Sharma 2000 N Kumar 2002 R Chidambaram 2004 P Rama Rao 2006 Yash Pal 2009 VS Ramamurthy 2012 T Ramasami 2015 Bikash C Sinha	The Aryabhata Medal 1977 KR Ramanathan 1980 BP Pal 1983 S Dhawan 1986 S Ramaseshan 1989 PN Srivastava 1992 Obaid Siddiqi 1994 V Ramalingaswami 1996 MVS Valiathan 1998 RP Bambah 2000 K Kasturirangan 2002 VL Chopra 2004 KL Chopra 2006 MS Raghunathan 2009 HY Mohanram 2012 KK Talwar 2015 Alok Bhattacharya
Indira Gandhi Prize for Popularization of Science 1986 Surendra Jha 1986 M Nalini Mohan Rao 1988 Saroj Ghose 1990 JV Narlikar 1992 GP Phondke 1994 G Venkataraman 1994 Arup Rattan Bhattacharya 1996 VS Venkatavardhan 1998 Santimay Chatterjee 2000 Yash Pal & Partha (Sarathy) Ghose 2002 VG Bhide D Balasubramanian 2004 No Award 2006 RD Sharma 2008 Arvind Gupta 2011 BN Dwivedi Biman Nath 2014 Rajesh Kochhar Hari Om Vats 2017 Arnab Bhattacharya Narottam Sahoo Pallav Bagla	INSA Medal for Promotion & Service to Science 2002 MGK Menon 2004 S Varadarajan 2006 CNR Rao 2008 M M Sharma 2011 PN Tandon 2014 MVS Valiathan 2017 Goverdhan Mehta
The Sisir Kumar Mitra Memorial Lecture 1966 KR Ramanathan 1972 RN Chakravarti 1978 T Ramachandra Rao 1984 Asima Chatterjee 1990 MK Das Gupta 1992 KS Valdiya 1995 CR Bhatia 1998 S Sriramachari 2001 P Rama Rao 2004 MK Bhan 2009 PL Sachdev 2012 SK Sopory 2015 SWA Naqvi	The KariamanikkamSrinivasa Krishnan Memorial Lecture 1969 RK Asundi 1975 AP Mitra 1981 Devendra Lal 1987 SK Joshi 1992 KL Chopra 1995 TV Ramakrishnan 1998 AR Verma 2001 M Vijayan 2004 R Nityananda 2010 Surendra Prasad 2013 NK Gupta 2016 Sudha Bhattacharya
Daulat Singh Kothari Memorial Lecture 1996 K Lal 1999 VG Bhide 2002 CNR Rao 2005 SP Sukhatme 2008 Yash Pal 2011 SK Joshi 2014 HK Gupta 2017 D Balasubramanian	Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture 1990 G Mehta, HG Sharat Chandra 1991 SS Jha, MK Chandrashekaran 1992 N Mukunda, KK Kannan 1993 B Buti, SK Sinha 1994 DK Dutta Majumdar, PS Ramakrishnan 1995 RA Mashelkar, P Balaram 1996 N Kumar, HK Jain 1997 AN Bhaduri ,BLK Somayajulu 1998 P Natarajan, MS Bamji 1999 Asis Datta, DVS Jain 2000 GS Agarwal, MRS Rao 2001 N Appaji Rao,S Chandrasekaran 2002 R Cowsik, N Balakrishnan 2003 SS Agarwal, KS Valdiya 2004 R Parimala, Ashima Anand 2005 J Gowrishankar,M Vidyasagar 2006 VS Chauhan,A Jhunjhunwala 2007 Kanury Venkata Subba Rao 2007 K Vijayaraghvan 2008 B Bagchi,A Surolia 2011 Alok K Gupta, TP Singh 2014 Mustansir Barma, Sudhir K Sopory 2017 V Ravindranath, Sankar K Pal
Subjectwise Medals
The Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal 1962 S Chandrasekhar 1964 BP Pal 1966 K Chandrasekharan 1968 PC Mahalanobis 1970 No Award 1972 GN Ramachandran 1974 Harish Chandra 1976 No Award 1979 RP Bambah 1982 S Chowla 1985 CS Seshadri 1988 MS Narasimhan 1991 MS Raghunathan 1994 No Award 1997 K Ramachandra 2000 No Award 2003 CR Rao 2006 R Parimala 2010 SG Dani 2013 KR Parthasarathy 2016 TN Venkataramana	The Satyendranath Bose Medal 1977 ECG Sudarshan 1980 CNR Rao 1983 MKV Bappu 1986 AN Mitra 1989 CK Majumdar 1992 SS Jha 1995 R Rajaraman 1998 G Rajasekaran 2001 Deepak Dhar 2004 Ashoke Sen 2007 DP Roy 2009 Rohini M Godbole 2012 SM Roy 2015 J Maharana
The Homi Jehangir Bhabha Medal 1978 BV Sreekantan 1981 FC Auluck 1984 KG Ramanathan 1987 S Chandrasekhar 1990 PK Iyengar 1993 ES Raja Gopal 1996 AV Narlikar 1999 BA Dasannacharya 2002 AK Sood 2005 SK Sikka 2008 Arup K Raychaudhuri 2011 No Award 2014 Varun Sahni	The Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal 1977 V Ramalingaswami 1980 DP Burma 1983 V Sasisekharan 1986 MA Viswamitra 1989 N Appaji Rao 1992 PK Maitra 1995 AN Bhaduri 1998 D Balasubramanian 2001 MRS Rao 2004 P Balaram 2007 SK Brahmachari 2010 V Nagaraja 2013 PK Das 2016 P Chakrabarti
The Sunder Lal Hora Medal 1960 MOP Iyengar 1963 P Maheshwari 1965 BR Seshachar 1967 MJ Thirumalachar 1969 K Ramiah 1971 Salim Ali 1973 TS Sadasivan 1975 LS Ramaswami 1978 GP Talwar 1981 CR Krishna Murti 1984 PN Mehra 1987 SP Raychaudhuri 1990 CMS Dass 1993 SK Sinha 1996 BM Johri 1999 TN Ananthakrishnan 2002 SC Lakhotia 2005 Rajiva Raman 2008 Rakesh Tuli 2011 EA Siddiq 2014 BK Thelma	The Darashaw Nosherwanji Wadia Medal 1977 AG Jhingran 1980 JB Auden 1983 WD West 1986 CS Pichamuthu 1989 SN Sen 1992 BP Radhakrishna 1995 KS Valdiya 1998 S Roy 2001 SS Merh 2004 Ashoke Mookherjee 2007 VK Gaur 2009 Ashok Sahni 2012 SK Sen 2015 S Sengupta
The Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Medal 1978 C Ambasankaran 1981 Y Nayudamma 1984 Govind Swarup 1987 UR Rao 1990 GS Sanyal 1993 DK Dutta Majumdar 1996 KL Chopra 1999 BN Das 2002 J Nanda 2005 A Sridharan 2008 VS Borkar 2011 IBS Passi 2014 MG Nadkarni	The Syed Husain Zaheer Medal 1980 DP Antia 1983 LK Doraiswamy 1986 CV Sundaram 1989 Rajinder Kumar 1992 SC Dutta Roy 1995 V Ramamurti 1998 V Rajaraman 2001 SK Pal 2004 J Nanda 2007 KT Jacob 2008 JB Joshi 2011 Ashutosu Sharma 2014 B Yegnanarayana
The Silver Jubilee Commemoration Medal 1970 S Rangaswami 1973 MS Swaminathan 1976 AK Sharma 1979 MS Randhawa 1982 VS Mathur 1985 No Award 1988 SK Mukherjee 1991 VL Chopra 1994 No Award 1997 EA Siddiq 2000 RS Paroda 2003 Shyam Prakash 2006 S Nagarajan 2010 No Award 2013 RP Sharma 2016 Himanshu Pathak	Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Chemical Sciences) 1986 TR Govindachari 1989 G Mehta 1992 SV Kessar 1995 No Award 1998 V Krishnan 2001 JP Mittal 2004 GSR Subba Rao 2007 S Chandrasekaran 2010 Kankan Bhattacharyya 2013 V Chandrasekhar 2016 Ashwini Nangia
Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Animal Sciences) 1986 Obaid Siddiqi 1989 J Barnabas 1992 MS Kanungo 1995 No Award 1998 Jyotirmoy Das 2001 CM Gupta 2004 VF Rodrigues 2007 GP Talwar 2009 TN Ananthakrishnan 2012 No Award 2015 MD Gadgil	The Kalpathi Ramakrishna Ramanathan Medal 1987 Anna Mani 1990 PR Pisharoty 1993 PK Das 1996 R Raghavarao 1999 BM Reddy 2002 RG Rastogi 2005 GS Lakhina 2008 BN Goswami 2011 K Krishnamoorthy 2014 No Award
Endowed Medals
The Vishwakarma Medal 1979 Sukh Dev 1982 Nitya Anand 1985 MM Sharma 1988 RA Mashelkar 1991 AV Rama Rao 1994 P Ratnasamy 1997 No Award 2000 JB Joshi 2003 S Sivaram 2006 Purnima Jalihal 2009 E Sreedharan 2012 No Award 2015 AB Pandit	Professor Brahm Prakash Memorial Medal 1989 No Award 1992 BL Deekshatulu 1995 BN Das 1998 KT Jacob 2001 R Krishnan 2004 S Banerjee 2007 VS Arunachalam 2010 Shrikant Lele 2013 Baldev Raj 2016 No Award
Professor Shyam Bahadur Saksena Memorial Award 1990 HY Mohan Ram 1993 SP Raychaudhuri 1996 SK Jain 1996 VS Rama Das 1999 JS Singh 2002 Sushil Kumar 2005 No award 2008 AN Lahiri Majumder 2011 LC Rai	Professor GN Ramachandran 60th Birthday Commemoration Medal 1991 NN Das Gupta 1994 M Vijayan 1997 R Jayaraman 2000 A Surolia 2003 MRN Murthy 2006 TP Singh 2009 DM Salunke 2012 B Bhattacharyya 2015 Amitabha Chattopadhyay
Professor TR Seshadri 70th Birthday Commemoration Medal 1973 K Venkataraman 1976 RC Mehrotra 1979 SC Bhattacharyya 1982 Sukh Dev 1985 DK Banerjee 1988 A Chakravorty 1991 MV George 1994 JP Mittal 1997 GSR Subba Rao 2000 Harjit Singh 2003 GP Pandey 2006 SK Dogra 2009 D Basavaiah	Professor KP Bhargava Memorial Medal 1996 No Award 1999 Rita Mulherkar 1999 Madhu Dikshit 2002 Vijayalakshmi R 2005 Sudhanshu Vrati 2008 BN Dhawan 2011 KS Gopitnath 2014 KN Agarwal
Professor K Naha Memorial Medal 1998 SK Ghosh 2001 D Mukhopadhyay 2004 HK Gupta 2007 AK Singhvi 2010 K Gopalan 2013 No Award 2016 VP Dimri	Professor Krishna Sahai Bilgrami Memorial Medal 2001 Randhir Singh 2004 S Nagarajan 2007 SK Apte 2009 Bijay Singh 2012 TK Adhya 2015 Yadvinder Singh
Chandrakala Hora Memorial Medal 1950 SB Setna 1955 GKN Mitra & KH Alikunhi 1960 HL Chaudhury 1965 BS Bhimachar 1970 NK Panikkar 1975 SZ Qasim 1980 VG Jhingran 1985 No Award 1987 NBK Nair 1992 JS Datta Munshi 1997 No Award 2002 T Subramoniam 2007 Samir Bhattacharya 2010 G Marimuthu 2013 Chandrima Shaha 2016 SK Gupta	Shree Dhanwantari Prize 1971 R Viswanathan 1976 B Mukherji 1981 NK Dutta 1986 PN Tandon 1991 MVS Valiathan 1996 S Nityanand 2001 BN Dhawan 2006 NH Wadia 2009 NP Kochupillai
Professor Bhim Shanker Trivedi Memorial Medal 2014 Chitra Mandal	Professor Har Swarup Memorial Medal Nil
Endowment Lectures
Professor Bal Dattatraya Tilak Lecture 1983 PV Sukhatme 1984 AB Joshi 1985 AKN Reddy 1986 CV Seshadri 1987 SS Kalbag 1988 PK Sethi 1989 No Award 1990 V Kurien 1991 No Award 1992 NH Antia 1993 No Award 1994 AD Karve 1995 BE Vijayam 1996 KJ Ranadive 1997 Devendra Kumar 1998 No Award 1999 DR Bapat 1999 D Chakraborti 2000 D Raghunandan 2001 No Award 2002 P Pushpangadan 2003 RK Gupta 2004 No Award 2005 Anil K Gupta 2006 Sudha Nair 2007 Anil P Joshi 2008 No Award 2011 No Award 2014 Bijay Singh	Dr TS Tirumurti Memorial Lecture 1985 B Ramamurthi 1987 SC Seal 1989 No Award 1991 KP Bhargava 1993 HD Tandon 1995 A Venkoba Rao 1997 VI Mathan 1999 No Award 2001 MK Bhan 2003 T Jacob John 2005 SS Agarwal 2007 UC Chaturvedi 2010 Mahdi Hasan
Dr Nitya Anand Endowment Lecture 1987 Indira Nath 1989 CM Gupta 1991 BS Srivastava 1993 A Datta 1995 No Award 1997 R Nagaraj 1999 AK Tyagi 2001 KN Ganesh 2003 SK Gupta 2005 SE Hasnain 2007 S Bhattacharya 2009 V Nagaraja 2012 HK Majumder 2015 TK Kundu	INSA Prize for Materials Science 1987 TR Anantharaman 1989 P Rama Rao 1991 S Ranganathan 1993 BR Nag 1995 EC Subba Rao 1997 P Ramachandra Rao 1999 KJ Rao 2001 Sri Kumar Banerjee 2003 R Nagarajan 2005 Dipankar Chakravorty 2007 G Sundararajan 2010 Baldev Raj
Professor S Swaminathan 60th Birthday Commemoration Lecture 1992 RP Rastogi 1994 UR Ghatak 1996 S Ranganathan 1998 S Mitra 2000 KK Balasubramanian 2002 JS Yadav 2004 SP Moulik 2006 SS Krishnamurthy 2010 M Periasamy 2013 GP Pandey 2016 No Award	Dr Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Lecture 2003 Kasturi Datta 2005 Radha Balakrishnan 2007 Maharani Chakravorty 2010 Chandrima Shaha 2013 Madhu Dikshit 2016 Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam
Professor MRN Prasad Memorial Lecture 1992 PR Adiga 1995 SK Basu 1998 S Bhattacharya 2001 Kasturi Datta 2004 AJ Rao 2007 SK Saidapur 2010 K Muralidhar	The Bires Chandra Guha Memorial Lecture 1969 V Subrahmanyan 1972 A Sreenivasan 1975 J Ganguly 1978 MG Deo 1981 AN Radhakrishanan 1984 BK Bachhawat 1987 Mahtab S Bamji 1990 NK Notani 1993 PS Sastry 1996 IB Chatterjee 1999 K Krishnaswamy 2002 D Chatterji 2005 B Bhattacharyya 2008 Amitabha Chattopadhyay 2011 P Chakrabarti 2014 Ch. Mohan Rao
The Bashambar Nath Chopra Lecture 1971 PN Wahi 1974 J Venkateswarlu 1977 BK Bachhawat 1980 AG Datta 1983 S Sriramachari 1986 No Award 1989 PM Bhargava 1992 SC Sanyal 1995 MM Johri 1998 PD Dogra 2001 No Award 2004 Asis Datta 2007 Akhilesh K Tyagi 2010 JS Singh	Professor Shambu Nath De Memorial Lecture 1993 NK Ganguly 1996 SN Chatterjee 1999 No Award 2002 RC Mahajan 2005 HG Sen 2010 Dilip Mahalanabis
Professor Vishnu Vasudeva Narlikar Memorial Lecture 1994 PC Vaidya 1997 SK Malik 2000 N Rudraiah 2003 AS Gupta 2006 M Lakshmanan 2009 KB Sinha 2012 RB Bapat 2015 SK Khanduja	Dr Jagdish Shankar Memorial Lecture 1994 D Mukherjee 1997 Biman Bagchi 2000 ED Jemmis 2000 SR Gadre 2003 RV Hosur 2006 DD Sharma 2006 Sourav Pal 2009 Swapan K Ghosh
Professor Vishwa Nath Memorial Lecture 1995 Lalji Singh 1998 No Award 2001 K Muniyappa 2004 No Award 2007 No Award 2009 Siddhartha Roy 2012 PK Das 2015 Subrata Sinha	Dr Biren Roy Memorial Lecture 1995 SK Trehan 1998 M Lakshmanan 2001 Roddam Narasimha 2004 AK Ghatak 2007 V Ramamurti 2010 SN Kaul 2013 No Award 2016 Avinash Khare
Professor Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture 1996 PT Manoharan 1999 BM Deb 2002 Mihir Chowdhury 2005 Debashis Mukherjee 2008 J Gopalakrishnan 2011 Kankan Bhattacharyya 2014 Sourav Pal	Dr Yellapragada SubbaRow Birth Centenary Lecture 1996 NR Moudgal 1999 NK Ganguly 2002 Sandip K Basu 2005 SK Sarin 2008 SE Hasnain 2011 Chitra Mandal 2014 No Award
Professor K Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture 1979 RK Asundi 1981 K Narahari Rao 1983 NA Narasimham 1985 VG Bhide 1987 PT Manoharan 1989 M Chowdhury 1991 VB Kartha 1996 A Kumar 2000 AK Sood 2004 N Chandrakumar 2008 DD Sarma 2011 Ajit C Kunwar	Professor Rango Krishna Asundi Memorial Lecture 1984 G Herzberg 1986 PT Narasimhan 1988 G Govil 1990 CL Khetrapal 1994 Surjit Singh 1998 RV Hosur 2002 N Chandrakumar 2006 KVR Chary 2009 N Periasamy
Professor Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan Lecture 1982 KS Thind 1984 R Mishra 1986 BM Johri 1988 CV Subramanian 1990 DD Pant 1994 KS Bilgrami 1998 A Gnanam 2002 Anupam Varma 2006 AS Raghavan 2009 DJ Bagyaraj	Professor Panchanan Maheshwari Memorial Lecture 1987 TV Desikachary 1989 V Puri 1991 DD Awasthi 1996 PK Mohanty 2000 SK Sopory 2004 KR Shivanna 2008 JP Khuranna 2011 Sunil Mukherjee
Dr Guru Prasad Chatterjee Memorial Lecture 1981 SC Bhattacharyya 1983 BN Singh 1985 TN Khoshoo 1987 Prem Narain 1989 R Rajaraman 1991 VK Gaur 1996 DV Singh 2001 BC Nakra 2006 ML Munjal 2009 SC Dutta Roy	Professor Har Swarup Memorial Lecture 2005 KP Gopinathan 1984 ML Roonwal 1987 Sivatosh Mookerjee 1990 Ishwar Prakash 1995 CJ Dominic 2000 MS Jairajpuri 2005 MK Chandrashekaran 2008 T Subromonian 2011 SK Saidapur 2014 PD Prasada Rao
Dr M R Das Memorial Lecture 2005 KP Gopinathan 2008 Shahid Jameel 2011 Saumitra Das 2014 Balaram Ghosh
Special Lectures
* The PMS Blackett Memorial Lecture 1976 Sir Harrie Massey 1978 BV Sreekantan 1980 Sir Michael Stoker 1982 MS Swaminathan 1984 Sir Andrew Huxley 1986 MGK Menon 1988 Sir Roger Elliott 1990 CNR Rao 1992 Sir B Follett 1994 Peter Day 1996 Sir Aaron Klug 1998 Sir Harold Kroto 2001 Lord Robert McCredie 2003 Patrick Bateson 2005 Julia S Higgins 2007 Martin Rees 2009 Lorna Casselton 2013 Paul Maxime Nurse	Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture 1993 AP Mitra 1995 MM Sharma 1997 C Gopalan 1999 S Chandrasekhar 2002 G Swarup 2004 K Kasturirangan 2006 Asoke Sen 2008 Narendra Kumar 2016 Kalyanmoy Deb

* Since 2013 this award is independently organized by INSA

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