Bangalore, December 22: Professor C N R Rao has become the first ever Indian to be awarded the highest international medal in chemistry instituted by the German Chemical Society.
Rao has been selected for the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Medal for his outstanding contributions in the subject. It is the highest international medal in chemistry awarded once in two or three years, according to the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research here.
It is for the first time that an Indian scientist has been awarded the prestigious medal, the Centre which Rao heads said in a release today.
The medal would be presented to Prof Rao, a national research professor and Chairman of Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, in the European Chemical Congress in Nurnberg scheduled for August 29 next year.
–Agencies