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[2]
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 [3]
2003 -- --
2004 U Kulshrestha and Ajay Manglik
2005 V. Chakravarthi
2006 V.K. Gahalaut and Niloy Khare
2007 N.V. Chalapathi Rao, Laxmidhar Behera
2008 V.M. Tiwari and Abhayaram Bansal
2009 J.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