What is C. N. R. Rao?
{{Infobox scientist | name = C. N. R. Rao | honorific_suffix = [[Indian National Science Academy|FNA]], [[Indian Academy of Sciences|FASc]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[The World Academy of Sciences|FTWAS]], [[Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry|HonFRSC]], [[Member of the Academia Europaea|MAE]], [[Fellow of the Institute of Physics|HonFInstP]] | birth_name = Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao | image = Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao - Kolkata 2004-12-17 03649 Cropped.jpg | caption = Rao in December 2004 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|06|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Kingdom of Mysore]], [[British Raj|British India]] | field = [[Chemistry]] | alma_mater = [[Mysore University]] ([[B.S.|BS]])<br />[[Banaras Hindu University]] ([[M.S.|MS]])<br />[[Purdue University]] ([[PhD]]) | work_institution = [[Indian Space Research Organisation]]<br />[[IIT Kanpur]]<br />[[Indian Institute of Science]]<br />[[University of Oxford]]<br />[[University of Cambridge]]<br />[[University of California, Santa Barbara]]<br />[[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] | doctoral_advisor = | known_for = [[Solid-state chemistry]]<br />[[Materials science]] | prizes = [[Marlow Medal]] (1967)<br />[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] (1969)<br />[[Hughes Medal]] (2000)<br />[[India Science Award]] (2004)<br />[[Dan David Prize]] (2005) <br />[[Legion of Honor]] (2005)<br />[[Abdus Salam Medal]] (2008)<br />[[Royal Medal]] (2009)<br />[[Padma Shri]] (1974)<br />[[Padma Vibhushan]] (1985)<br />[[Karnataka Ratna]] (2001)<br />[[Bharat Ratna]] (2014) <br />[[Order of Friendship]] (2009) <br />[[National Order of Scientific Merit]] (2012)<br />[[Order of the Rising Sun]] (2015) <br />Von Hippel Award (2017) <br />[[ENI award]] (2020) | footnotes = | homepage = {{url|www.jncasr.ac.in/cnrrao/index.html}} }} '''Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao''', {{post-