C.N.R. Rao#
| Membership Number: | 1764 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1997 |
| Main Country of Residence: | INDIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- Linus Pauling Research Professor & Honorary President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
- 2004 - present Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University
- 1995 - 1999 Albert Einstein Research Professor
- 1989 - 1999 President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- 1984 - 1994 Director, Indian Institute of Science
- 1977 - 1984Founder Chairman, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit and Materials Research Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science
- 1983 - 1994 Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
- 1963 - 1976 Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Head of Department and later Dean of Research of the Institute)
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural chemistry
- Solid state and materials chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1967 Marlow Medal for outstanding contributions to Physical Chemistry, Faraday Society, England (1967)
- 1976 Centennial Foreign Fellowship of the American Chemical Society
- 1981 The Royal Society of Chemistry (London) Medal for outstanding contributions to Solid State Chemistry
- 1989 Hevrovsky Gold Medal, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Honorary Fellowship, The Royal Society of Chemistry, London
- 1991 Balackett Lectureship, The Royal Society, London
- 1996 Albert Einstein Gold Medal, UNESCO, Paris
- 2000 Centenary Lectureship and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
- 2000 Hughes Medal for Physical Sciences, The Royal Society, London
- 2002 Officier de L'Ordre des Palmes Academiques, France
- 2002 Order of Scientific Merit, Grand-Cross, President of Brazil
- 2003 Gauss Professorship, The Academy of Sciences, Gottingen, Germany
- 2004 Somiya Award of the International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS)
- 2005 The Dan David Prize for Science in the Future Dimension in the field of materials science
- 2005 Chemical Pioneer, American Institute of Chemists, USA
- 2005 Chevalier de La Légion D'Honneur by the President of the French Republic
- 2006 Honorary Fellowship, Institute of Physics, London
- 2007 Honorary Fellowship, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
- 2008 Nikkei Asia Prize for Science, Technology and Innovation from Japan
- 2009 Order of Friendship, by the President of Russia
- 2009 The Royal Medal (The Queen's Medal), by the Royal Society, London, U.K
