text: * Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao Memorial Lecture Award in 1983
  * INSA Senior Scientist Award 1985-87
  * Sir C. V. Raman Birth Centenary Medal in 1988
  * Silver Jubilee Lecture of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences in 1988
  * Sanjeevaiah Memorial Lecture of Sri Venkateswara University in 1990