THE YEAR BOOK 2019 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 © 2019 Indian Academy of Sciences Information in this Year Book is updated up to 22 February 2019. 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 Lotus Printers Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru CONTENTS Page Section A: Indian Academy of Sciences Memorandum of Association ................................................... 2 Role of the Academy ............................................................... 4 Statutes .................................................................................. 7 Council for the period 2019–2021 ............................................ 18 Office Bearers ......................................................................... 19 Former Presidents ................................................................... 20 Activities – a profile ................................................................. 21 Academy Document on Scientific Values ................................. 25 The Academy Trust ................................................................. 33 Section B: Professorships Raman Chair ........................................................................... 36 Jubilee Chair ........................................................................... 39 Janaki Ammal Chair ................................................................ 40 The Academy–Springer Nature Chair ...................................... 40 Section C: Fellowship and Honorary Fellowship Fellows on roll ......................................................................... 42 Abbreviations .......................................................................... 218 Honorary Fellows on roll .......................................................... 219 Fellows and Honorary Fellow elected in 2018 .......................... 227 Subject-wise list of Fellows ...................................................... 228 Geographical Representation of Fellows .................................. 266 Fellows and Honorary Fellows deceased in 2018 ...................... 295 Fellows deceased since 1934 .................................................. 296 Honorary Fellows deceased since 1934 ................................... 313 Section D: Associateship Associates on roll .................................................................... 317 Associates selected in 2018 .................................................... 329 Former Associates .................................................................. 329 Section E: Committees Sectional Committees ............................................................. 342 Raman Chair and Janaki Ammal Chair Sub-Committee ........... 347 Jubilee Chair Sub-Committee .................................................. 347 Publications’ Committee .......................................................... 348 Science Academies’ Education Panel ...................................... 349 Panel on Scientific Values ....................................................... 350 Panel on Women in Science .................................................... 351 Finance Committee ................................................................. 351 Investment Committee ............................................................ 351 Standing Committee on Staff ................................................... 352 Section F: Publications Journals’ Details ...................................................................... 354 Section G: Calendar of Meetings in 2019 Annual Meetings ..................................................................... 382 Council Meetings .................................................................... 382 Sectional Committee Meetings ................................................ 382 Publications’ Committee Meetings ........................................... 382 Venues of Annual Meetings ..................................................... 383 List of Holidays in 2019 ........................................................... 384 Section H: Staff ......................................................................... 386 Section I: Guest House Facility Academy – RRI Campus ......................................................... 390 Academy Fellows’ Residency – Jalahalli .................................. 390 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 its *Prepared in 1975 by a committee appointed by the President and approved by the President in Council. 4 Section A: Indian Academy of Sciences 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