C. N. R. Rao

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, usually cited CNR Rao, (* June 30, 1934 in Bangalore ) is an Indian chemist ( structural chemistry, solid state chemistry ).

Life

Rao studied at the University of Mysore with a bachelor 's degree in 1951 and at the Banares Hindu University with a master's degree in 1953. He received his doctorate in 1958 at Purdue University ( received 1961 additionally a D. Sc. Mysore University ) and was from 1959 Lecturer and in 1963 Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 1984 to 1994 he was director of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a founding director and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore. He has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, Purdue University, in Cambridge ( professorial fellow at King's College from 1983 to 1984 ) and at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Work

Rao is considered a leading scientist in the field of solid state chemistry and chemical materials science. Among others, he was one of the first, the two-dimensional layers of transition metal oxides synthesized, which has applications in high-temperature superconductors and other materials with special magnetic or electronic properties.

He has published over 1,500 works.

He was from 1985 to 1989 and from 2005 Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Indian Prime Minister.

Honors and Memberships

In 2010 he received the August-Wilhelm -von- Hofmann Medal, 2000, the Hughes Medal, the Heyrovsky Medal and was the first recipient of the India Science Award ( 2004). He is a Knight of the Legion of Honor and received the Padma Shri Indian State Prizes (1974 ), Padma Vibhushan the (1985) and Bharat Ratna to (2014). He is much honorary doctorates, a Fellow of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Indian Academy of Sciences (1989 to 1991 as its president ), the Indian National Science Academy, the Russian, Polish, Serbian, Korean, Brazilian and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the Third World Academy of Sciences and the Academie des Sciences. Because of his efforts to Indo- Chinese scientific co-operation he received the 2012 Award for International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.