title: Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture Award
text: # Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture Award
  
  Prof. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture Award is given for the outstanding contributions in the subject of Spectroscopy in Physics. The award was established by the Indian National Science Academy of Calcutta in the year 1979. The honour is awarded to Indian citizens.
  
  ## History
  
  The Memorial Lecture Award was established in the year 1979 in the honour of Professor Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao by the students of Prof. K.Rangadhama Rao and Indian National Science Academy, formerly National Institute of Sciences of India, Calcutta. The lecture is awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of Spectroscopy. The award carries an honorarium of Rs. 25,000/- and a citation.
  
  The below lists the recipients of the Memorial Award since its inception in the year 1979.
  
  ## Recipients
  
  Source: Indian National Science Academy
  
  | S.No | Name | Birth / death | Awarded | Contribution | Indian state or country of origin |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1. | R. K. Asundi | 1895 - 1982 | 1979 | Molecules In Interstellar Space | Karnataka |
  | 2. | K. Narahari Rao | 1921 - 2001 | 1981 | High-resolution infrared spectroscopy. He pioneered improvements in wavelength standards and advanced methods of achieving higher resolution | Andhra Pradesh |
  | 3. | Nishtala Appala Narasimham | 1922 - 2002 | 1983 | A Search For Organic Molecules In Space : High Resolution Infrared Laser Diode And Radio Frequency Spectroscopic Studies | Andhra Pradesh |
  | 4. | V. G. Bhide | 1940 - 2006 | 1985 | Research on solid state physics. Research in Mössbauer spectroscopy and its applications to Materials Science. | Nagpur, Maharastra |
  | 5. | P. T. Manoharan | | 1987 | | |
  | 6. | Mihir Chowdhury | 1937 - | 1989 | Work on Two-Photon processes in biomolecules and dynamics of excited state proton transfer. | Kolkata, West Bengal |
  | 7. | V. B. Kartha | | 1991 | Laser Spectroscopy In Atomic And Molecular Physics | |
  | 8. | Anil Kumar | | 1996 | | Bangalore, Karnataka |
  | 9. | Ajay K. Sood | 1951 - | 2000 | | Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh |
  | 10. | N. Chandrakumar | | 2004 | Coherence Transformations and their Applications in NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging | |
  | 11. | Dipankar Das Sarma | 1955 - | 2008 | X-ray spectroscopy elucidating the novel physics of strongly correlated systems | Kolkata, West Bengal |
  | 12. | Ajit Chand Kunwar | | 2011 | | |
  