Noted Indian scientist Dr C N R Rao has been conferred with China's top
science award for his important contributions in boosting Sino-India
scientific cooperation.Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) yesterday gave
its 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation to three
scientists from India, Germany, and Russia.
Rao, 79, founder of
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR),
Bangalore, shared the 2012 award with Herbert Jaeckle of Germany's Max
Planck Society and Russian space physicist G A Zherebtsov.Rao has won
various prestigious awards. He is currently the Head of the Scientific
Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
The CAS is China's top
academic and research institution for natural sciences.It has so far
honoured 17 international scientists for their contributions in
Sino-Foreign research cooperation,since the prize was instituted in
2007.
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