Krishnan Medal

The Krishnan Medal is an Indian geology award given annually by the Indian Geophysical Union.^[1] The award is named after M. S. Krishnan, an eminent geologist.

Overview

The Indian Geophysical Union instituted the Krishnan Medal to be awarded each year to an outstanding geophysicist/geologist whose age does not exceed 40 years (on 1 January of the year) for outstanding work in specific branches of geophysics/geology and related geosciences.

Nomination

Nominations each year are called from the members of the Executive Council, past recipients of the medal and past Presidents for the award of the Krishnan Medal and constitute an Expert Committee to make the selection for each year. The medallist is presented with the award at the next annual meeting. Since 1993 a Gold Medal has been awarded to the recipient.

Nominations, along with the bio-data, accompanied by 4 copies of the reprints of 3 important publications of the candidates should be sent to the Secretary, Indian Geophysical Union, by 31 July, of the year.

Recipients

Source: IGU

1964 Manik Talwani

1965 Devendra Lal

1966 H.M.Iyer

1967 S.Balakrishna

1968 A.Jayaraman

1969 Supriya Roy

1970 C.Radhakrishna Murthy

1971 D.N.Avasthi

1972 D.Gupta Sarma

1973 K.V.Raghava Rao

1974 J.G.Negi

1975 R.K.Verma

1976 K.L.Kaila

1977 M.B.Ramachandran Nair

1978 H.K.Gupta

1979 V.K.Gaur

1980 S.K.Verma

1981 S.Krishnaswamy

1982 K.Gopalan

1983 I.V.Radhakrishna Murthy

1984 Prof Dr. B.H.Briz Kishore

1985 S.K.Tandon

1986 -- --

1987 R.K.Tiwari

1988 A.K.Singhvi

1989 S.Dasgupta

1990 -- --

1991 S.S.Rai

1992 -- --

1993 Kusala Rajendran

1994 Rajiv Nigam

1995 Anil Kumar

1996 K.S.Krishna, K.Sain

1997 P.Divakar Naidu

1998 Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay

1999 A.K.Chaubey

2000 M.Radhakrishna and Y.V.B.Sarma

2001 P.Sengupta

2002 B. S. Daya Sagar^[2]

2003 -- --

2004 U Kulshrestha and Ajay Manglik

2005 V. Chakravarthi

2006 Vineet K. Gahalaut and Niloy Khare

2007 Chalapathi Rao, Laxmidhar Behera

2008 Virendra Mani Tiwari and Abhayaram Bansal

2009 Jyotiranjan S. Ray

2010 Prakash Kumar and Hetu C. Sheth

2011 Pradeep Srivatsava and B Prasanta Kumar Patro

2012 M. Ram Mohan and Rajesh Agnihotri

2013 Saumen Maiti and Senthil Kumar

2014 Pawan Dewangan

References

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