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Awards and Honours
Professor Dipankar Das Sarma, FNA has been awarded the 15th
G.D. Birla Award for the year 2005.Professor P.N. Tandon, FNA,
Past-President INSA,has been conferred upon the National Emeritus
Professorship of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. Professor
Gautam R.Desiraju, FNA, has been elected member, IUCr. Executive
Committee.Dr S Varadarajan, FNA, Past-President INSA has been
conferred upon the Honorary Fellowship of the Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore. Professor Sankar
K Pal, FNA, has been selected for P.C. Mahalanobis Birth Centenary
Award by Indian Science Congress Association.
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Principal Scientist
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University of Hyderabad,
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Acting Director
Centre for DNA Fingerpringting & Diagnostics
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Seth
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OBITUARIES
Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta
(b
September 01, 1923;
d November 28, 2005)
was born in Nalchira,
Bangladesh and did his Ph.D. in 1954 from University of Manchester,
U.K. specializing in Radio Astronomy, Solar-Terrestrial Physics and
Electronics. He served as Course Director, Postgraduate Diploma in
Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, Birla Planetarium in Kolkata . Das
Gupta’s early pioneering contributions (with Jennison) were to the
design, fabrication and successful operation of the first, long
base-line post detector correlation radio interferometer using a
radio link, now popularly known as an ‘intensity-interferometer’
(first conceived by R. Hanbury Brown). Using this interferometer, he
with Jennison, measured the apparent angular structures of two
strong radio sources – CYGNUS A and CASS A- for the first time.
Resolution of the double structure of CYG A played a basic role in
later developments in radio astronomy. He was a member of various
scientific/professional societies and served as President of Indian
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Professor Das Gupta received the S.K. Memorial
Lectureship of the Academy in 1990. Professor Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta was elected to the
Fellowship of Indian National Science Academy in the year 1974 and
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Thamarapu Vedantha Desikachary
(b
18 September, 1919;
d November 04, 2005)
was born in Tirupati, Andhra
Pradesh and did his D.Sc. in (1964 ) from University of Madras
specializing in Botany (Phycology). He served as Chairman &
Professor of Botany, University of Madras.Desikachary’s research
achievements are in algae (Cyanophyta, marine plants,taxonomy and
biology of bluegreen algae) and Volvocales (with M.O.P. Iyengar).
Along with B.G.L. Swamy, he propounded a theory of isolation and
insulation of special cells and with Sundaralingam, a new
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on the interrelationship of
Charophyta. He was Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences and
Phycological Society of India. Professor Desikachary was the
recipient of P. Maheshwari Memorial Lectureship of the Academy in
1987.Professor T.V. Desikachary was elected to the Fellowship of
Indian National Science Academy in the year 1966. Barry Ramachandra Rao
(b
21 November, 1922;
d September 24, 2005)
was born in Yellamanchili,
Andhra Pradesh and did his D.Sc. in (1949), D.Sc. (h.c.)
in 1970 from Andhra
University specializing in Space Physics, Ultrasonics and
Electronics. He served as Chairman (part-time), National Fisheries
Advisory Board, Ministry of Agriculture and Vice-Chairman,University
Grants Commission, New Delhi. Ramachandra Rao was an authority in
ultrasonics, space physics
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and electronics.He motivated his
research students to build their own apparatus for their work. As a
result, a large number of instruments for ionospheric and ultrasonic
research-pulse oscillographis, high-power pulse transmitters, pulse
receivers, satellite signal-recording equipment, ultrasonic
measuring instruments, and seismic sounders were developed. He and
his team also developed a high power Doppler meteor radar which
could detect, measure and track individual meteor trails in the
atmosphere during day and night. These instruments have been adopted
and are being used by several industrial complexes. He was Founder
Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Science and its President
(1975-76) in addition to the membership of various other scientific
societies. Professor B Ramachandra Rao was elected to the Fellowship
of Indian National Science Academy in the year 1969 and was its
Council Member during 1972-74 and Treasurer during 1977-80. |
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