Honors and Awards

Professor C V Raman was also the first to investigate the harmonic nature of the sound of the Indian drums such as the Tabla and the Mridanga. In 1930, for the first time in its history, an Indian scholar, educated entirely in India has received highest honour in science, the ‘Nobel Prize' in physics. In 1943, he established the ‘Raman Research Institute', near Bangalore. Read more at: http://www.careerindia.com/news/2013/11/07/in-memory-of-c-v-raman-contribution-to-science-and-research-4-007403.html

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his 1928 discovery of what is now known as the Raman Effect, the shift in wavelength of light after it passes through transparent material. An explosion of interest followed -- within twelve years of the discovery, 1800 scientific papers were produced. As the most prominent Indian scientist and the first Asian to receive a Nobel, Raman assumed the forefront in Indian physics. He founded the Indian Journal of Physics, and established the Indian Academy of Sciences (1934)

Bharat Ratna Award is one of the highest civilian award of Republic of India for the highest performance in any of the field of human Endeavour. On this page you will get the list of Bharat Ratna Awardees.

The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications".[1] Named after David E. Hughes, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000. The medal was first awarded in 1902 to J. J. Thomson "for his numerous contributions to electric science, especially in reference to the phenomena of electric discharge in gases", and has since been awarded over one-hundred times. Unlike other Royal Society medals, the Hughes Medal has never been awarded to the same individual more than once. A recent recipient was Michele Dougherty, who was awarded the medal "for innovative use of magnetic field data that led to discovery of an atmosphere around one of Saturn's moons and the way it revolutionised our view of the role of planetary moons in the Solar System".[1]

The International Lenin Peace Prize was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among comrades". It was founded as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, but was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples as a result of destalinization.