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The Year Book 2017 THE YEAR BOOK 2017 INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Bengaluru Postal Address: Indian Academy of Sciences Post Box No. 8005 C.V. Raman Avenue Sadashivanagar Post, Raman Research Institute Campus Bengaluru 560 080 India Telephone : +91-80-2266 1200, +91-80-2266 1203 Fax : +91-80-2361 6094 Email : [email protected], [email protected] Website : www.ias.ac.in © 2017 Indian Academy of Sciences Editorial & Production Team: Nalini, B.R. Thirumalai, N. Vanitha, M. Venugopal, M.S. Published by: Executive Secretary, Indian Academy of Sciences Text formatted by WINTECS Typesetters, Bengaluru (Ph. +91-80-2332 7311) Printed by Tholasi Prints India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru (Ph: +91-80-4047 0000) CONTENTS Page Section A: Indian Academy of Sciences Memorandum of Association ............................................... 2 Role of the Academy........................................................... 4 Statutes ............................................................................. 7 Council for the period 2016–2018 ........................................ 18 Office Bearers .................................................................... 19 Former Presidents .............................................................. 20 Activities – a profile............................................................. 21 Section B: Professorships Raman Chair ...................................................................... 26 Jubilee Chair ...................................................................... 29 Section C: Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship Fellows on roll .................................................................... 32 Abbreviations ..................................................................... 212 Honorary Fellows ................................................................ 213 Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected in 2016 ..................... 221 Subject-wise list of Fellows.................................................. 222 Fellows and Honorary Fellow deceased in 2016..................... 259 Fellows deceased since 1934.............................................. 260 Honorary Fellows deceased since 1934 ............................... 276 Section D: Associateship Associates on roll ............................................................... 280 Associates selected in 2016................................................ 288 Former Associates.............................................................. 288 Section E: Committees Sectional Committees ......................................................... 300 Raman Chair Sub-Committee .............................................. 302 Jubilee Chair Sub-Committee .............................................. 302 Publications’ Committee...................................................... 303 Science Academies’ Education Panel .................................. 303 Panel on Scientific Values ................................................... 304 Panel on Women in Science ................................................ 304 Finance Committee............................................................. 304 Investment Committee ........................................................ 304 Standing Committee on Staff............................................... 304 Section F: Publications Journals’ Details ................................................................. 306 Section G: Calendar of Meetings in 2017 Annual Meetings ................................................................. 316 Council Meetings ................................................................ 316 Sectional Committee Meetings ............................................ 316 Venues of Annual Meetings ................................................. 317 List of Closed Holidays in 2017............................................ 318 Section H: Office Staff ........................................................ 320 Section I: Guest House Facility Academy – RRI Campus ..................................................... 324 Academy Fellows’ Residency – Jalahalli............................... 324 Section A Indian Academy of Sciences MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION* I. The name of the Association shall be ‘The Indian Academy of Sciences’. II. The objects of the Academy are: 1. To promote the progress and uphold the cause of science, both in pure and applied branches. 2. To co-operate with the existing Provincial Academies having similar objects, and with others when founded. 3. To encourage and publish important researches in the branches of science comprehended by the Academy and to represent internationally the scientific work of India. 4. To undertake, control and direct scientific enterprises of all-India significance and to participate in similar international activities. 5. To collect, sort out and disseminate information concerning the industrial, economic and labour problems relating to India and other progressive countries. 6. To publish books, memoirs, journals, proceedings and transactions relating to scientific researches in pure and applied branches initiated by the Academy and those conducted under the direction of Provincial Academies, the Universities and Government Scientific Institutions. 7. To organise and arrange for the meetings of the Congresses, Committees and Conferences for reading and discussing papers submitted to the Academy, advising Government and other bodies on scientific and other matters referred to the Academy and to co-operate with the National Research Council when instituted. 8. To secure and administer funds, grants and endowments for the furtherance of scientific research. *Registered on 27 April 1934 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. 2 Section A: Indian Academy of Sciences 9. To undertake and execute all other acts which shall assist in and promote the usefulness, aims and purposes of the Academy. III. The Academy shall not make any profit nor award bonus to any of its members but may pay remuneration to the members of its permanent staff. In addition, it may make awards of prizes and research grants to individuals and organisations for the advancement of scientific knowledge. IV. Fellows of Academy are entitled to use the letter ‘FASc’ after their names as the recognized abbreviation indicative of their fellowship. – – – Section A: Indian Academy of Sciences 3 ROLE OF THE ACADEMY* Science has emerged today as the most revolutionary co-operative activity of mankind. In the scientific method lies a validity and universality which transcends any other principle devised by man. Science seeks and discovers, cutting across sectarian, national and ideological frontiers. It fosters co-operation and generates a value system which nurtures man’s highest capabilities and aspirations. The Indian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1934 by Professor C.V. Raman, Nobel Laureate, endeavours by all means at its disposal to promote the progress and uphold the cause of science, both in pure and applied branches. The Academy has laid the responsibility on all its Fellows, individually and collectively, of promoting original research and of disseminating scientific knowledge to the community, through its activities of organizing meetings, discussions, seminars, symposia and publications. The Academy recognizes the special relationship of scientific creative activity with the process of education and holds that the course of discovery includes the identification and nurturing of scientific talent amongst the young. Aware of the fundamental contributions science and technology can and must make to national regeneration, the Academy upholds that the principle of social responsibility for all scientific effort, individual or corporate, is entirely consistent with individual freedom and that the quest for knowledge and truth cannot be reconciled with any dogma. In order to meet the needs of the times, the Council of the Academy has carefully considered the steps to be taken to further the objects of the Academy. Taking cognizance of the enormous and continuing increase in scientific knowledge and the application of this knowledge virtually to every sphere of human activity, and considering the growth of scientific activity within India and the numbers of scientific institutions and scientists working in various fields, the Council has, as a first step, expanded the Fellowship, in order to have within the Academy a fuller representation of the Indian scientific community in *Prepared in 1975 by a committee appointed by the President and approved by the President in Council. 4 Section A: Indian Academy of Sciences its corporate body so that the objectives and obligations of the Academy could be more effectively fulfilled. The other steps proposed are aimed at: (a) ensuring that there is full representation in the Academy of all branches of science, fundamental and applied; (b) placing special emphasis on bringing into the fold of the Academy, through election to the Fellowship, outstanding young scientists; (c) promoting high quality journals in order to provide publication opportunities to Indian scientists at the international level; (d) conducting symposia and seminars and encouraging other similar activities in order to provide means of exchange of scientific knowledge among scientists and to bring new knowledge to the attention of the whole scientific community; (e) recognizing further, and honouring excellence in various areas of science by the institution of special awards (in the form of medals, lectureships, etc.); (f) giving special encouragement
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