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Indian who didn’t get Nobel Prize-
Case No.25
India’s Ratna CNR Rao missed the Nobel Prize-2016.
SARASIJ MAJUMDER
He is a master blaster. He is Professor C.N.R. Rao. He
was also awarded BHARAT RATNA (highest civilian award) in 2014 with
Mr. Sachin Tendulkar by President Pranab Mukherjee. He is the third
scientist receiving this award after C V Raman and APJ
Abdul Kalam. He has done a lot of work in solid
state and structural chemistry. He has authored around 1,500
research papers and 45 scientific books. With citations of around 44,000, Rao is on the
editorial boards of several leading journals dealing with chemistry, chemical
physics, materials science and solid-state chemistry.
If I have to mention here his all achievements the BLOG will
be too big.
C.N.R.
Rao received the maximum number of votes from chemists across the world in the
choice for the Nobel Prize in 2016 but he did not get it. You
Know Why???
Prof. Rao also
received international honour for material research. He is the first Asian to
be chosen for the prestigious Von Hippel Award.
His contribution: - Rao
was one of the earliest to synthesise two-dimensional oxide materials such
as La2CuO4. He was one of the first to
synthesise 123 cuprates, the first liquid nitrogen-temperature superconductor
in 1987. He was also the first to synthesis Y junction carbon nanotubes in the
mid-1990s. His work has led to a systematic study of compositionally controlled
metal-insulator transitions.
AFTER COMPLETING M.SC. at BHU, HE WORKED WITH Dr.
LINUS PAULING’s
PhD (post-doctoral degree) students in Purdue University in the US. After
researching also in Berkeley University under leading scientists of the time,
he decided to return to India, even though he had felt at home in the US, both
academically and culturally.
WHERE HE WORKED in INDIA: -
IIT (KANPUR), IISC (BANGALORE)—Retired as Director, Associated
with ISRO. Functioning as an Adviser to PM in Science, and Technology.
He is working now at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, a centre for pioneering scientists,
set up by him.
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