Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (NR)

Bangalore, Mar 1: The prestigious 'Nikkei Asia Prize' for Science, Technology and Innovation award has been bagged by Prof Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao, national research professor and president of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore informs a press release from JNCASR.

The award instituted by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc (Nikkei), the publisher of Japan's leading business newspaper, is being given in recognition of his "distinguished contribution to chemical spectroscopy, molecular spectra and chemistry of advanced materials", adds the JNCASR release.

He will be conferred the said prize on May 21, in Tokyo.
 
About Nikkei Keizai Shimbun, Inc (Nikkei): The company established in the year 1876, is headed by its president Ryoki Sugita and it acts as an operating holding company with newspaper businesses as a core. Group operations range from books, magazines to digital media, database service, broadcasting and other activities such as economic/cultural events. It has domestic news bureaus in 58 locations and overseas news bureaus in 35 locations.
 
Prof C N R Rao: Is on the board of several local and international agencies. He is national research professor (India), Linus Pauling research professor and honorary president of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for advanced scientific research, Bangalore, visiting professor, department of materials, University of California, Santa Barbara. CSIR Centre of Excellence in Chemistry, Chemistry & Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, in the city.

Prof  Rao is one of the world's foremost solid state and materials chemists. He has made prolific and sustained contributions to the development of the field over five decades. His work on transition metaloxides has led to basic understanding of novel phenomena and the relationship between materials properties and the structural chemistry of these materials.