1. International Medal for Materials Science and Technology award

Prof. Sir. Richard Friend, Cambridge University, UK (2013)

Prof. Martin Jansen, Max-Planck Institute for solid state research, Germany (2011)

Prof. C N R Rao, JNCASR, Bangalore (2009)

2. DISTINGUISHED MATERIALS SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD

DISTINGUISHED MATERIALS SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD is the highest MRSI award. The chosen Scientist delivers special Honour Lecture on the occasion of the MRSI Annual Meeting.

Dr. T Ramasami	DST, New Delhi	2013
Prof. Vikram Kumar	IIT, New Delhi	2012
Dr. S Sivaram	NCL, Pune	2011
Prof. S K Joshi	NPL, New Delhi	2010
Dr. Baldev Raj	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	2009
Dr. S Banerjee	BARC, Mumbai	2008
Dr. V K Aatre	IISc, Bangalore	2007
Prof. N Kumar	RRI, Bangalore	2006
Prof. K T Jacob	IISc, Bangalore	2005
Prof. T V Ramakrishnan	IISc, Bangalore / BHU, Varanasi	2004
Prof. A K Barua	IACS, Kolkata	2003
Prof. K J Rao	IISc, Bangalore	2002
Prof.S Ranganathan	IISc, Bangalore	2001
Dr.R A Mashelkar	CSIR, New Delhi	2000
Prof. C V Sundaram	NIAS, Bangalore	1999
Dr. P Rama Rao	AERB, Mumbai	1998
Dr.Paul Ratnaswamy	NCL, Pune	1997
Dr. R Chidambaram	Chairman, AEC, Mumbai	1996
Prof. K L Chopra	IIT, Karagpur	1995
Dr. M S Valiathan	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram	1994
Prof. C N R Rao	IISC, Bangalore	1993
Prof. T R Anantharaman	NPL, New Delhi	1992
Prof. E C Subba Rao	TERC, Mumbai	1991
Prof. S Ramaseshan	IISC, Bangalore	1990

3. MRSI-ICSC SUPER CONDUCTIVITY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AWARD (Senior)

Dr. P R Vasudeva Rao	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	2011
Dr. J V Yakhmi	BARC, Mumbai	2008
Prof. P Ramachandra Rao	BHU, Varanasi	2005
Prof. M S Valiathan	MAHE, Manipal	2002
Dr. S K Joshi	NPL, New Delhi	1999
Dr. P Rama Rao	UOH, Hyderabad	1996
Prof. C N R Rao	JNCASR, Bangalore	1993

This prize is awarded once in three years.

4. MRSI DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SHIP AWARD

Dr. Suresh Das	NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram	2013-2014
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma	IIT, Kanpur	2011-2012
Dr. R P Singh	Pune	2009-2010
Dr. A K Singh	NAL, Bangalore	2007-2008
Prof. S Dattagupta	SNBNCBS, Kolkata	2005-2006
Dr. S Sivaraman	NCL, Pune	2003-2004
Dr. P Rodriguez	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	2001-2002
Prof. P Ramachandra Rao	NML, Jamashedpur	1999-2000
Prof. G V Subba Rao	CECRI, Karaikudi	1997-1998
Prof. S Ranganathan	IISc, Bangalore	1995-1996
Dr. M S Valiathan	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram	1993-1994

5. MRSI-ICSC SUPER CONDUCTIVITY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE ANNUAL PRIZE WINNERS :

These prizes are awarded annually to two scientists

Dr. R Muralidharan	SSPL, Delhi	2013
Dr. M P Janawadkar	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Prof. S M Shivaprasad	JNCASR, Bangalore	2012
Dr. Amlan J Pal	IACS, Kolkata
Prof. R P Tandon	University of Delhi,  Delhi
Prof. G U Kulkarni	JNCASR, Bangalore	2011
Prof. D Bahadur	IIT, Mumbai
Prof. L M Manocha	SP University
Dr. N Kumar	Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur	2010
Prof. O N Srivastava	BHU, Varanasi
Dr. C P Sharma	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram	2009
Dr. H S Maiti	CGCRI, Kolkata
Prof. K S Narayan	JNCASR, Bangalore	2008
Prof. V Ramagopal Rao	IIT-Mumbai
Prof. M K Surappa	IISc, Bangalore	2007
Dr. C S Sundar	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr. G Sundararajan	ARC-I, Hyderabad	2006
Prof. A K Shukla	CECRI, Karaikudi & IISc, Bangalore
Dr. Baldev Raj	IGCAR Kalpakkam	2005
Prof. G Ananthakrishna	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. Dhananjai Pandey	BHU, Varanasi	2004
Prof. S B Krupanidhi	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. S Banerjee	BARC, Mumbai	2003
Dr. B M Arora	TIFR, Mumbai
Prof. P Ramachandra Rao	NML, Jamshedpur	2002
Prof. A K Raychaudhuri	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. D Banerjee	DMRL, Hyderabad	2001
Dr. S K Sikka	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. C K Gupta	BARC, Mumbai	2000
Dr. N V Madhusudana	RRI, Bangalore
Dr.T S Radhakrishnan	IGCAR Kalpakkam	1999
Dr. Y R Mahajan	ARC-I, Hyderabad
Prof.R Vijayaraghavan	TIFR, Mumbai	1998
Dr.Placid Rodriguez	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr. Anil Kakodkar	BARC, Mumbai	1997
Prof. A K Barua	IACS, Kolkata
Prof. K J Rao	IISc, Bangalore	1996
Dr. J V Yakhmi	BARC, Mumbai
Prof. L C Gupta	TIFR, Mumbai	1995
Dr. D Chakravorty	IACS, Kolkata
Prof. S K Malik	TIFR, Mumbai	1994
Dr. P Ganguly	NCL, Pune
Dr. P Chaddah	CAT, Indore	1993
Dr. A K Gupta	NPL, New Delhi
Prof. S B Ogale	UOP, Pune	1992
Prof. J Gopalakrishnan	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. A V Narlikar	NPL, New Delhi	1991
Prof. G V Subba Rao	IIT, Chennai

6. C N R Rao prize lecture in advanced materials

Prof. M K Sanyal, SINP, Kolkata (2013)

Prof. A K Sood, IISc, Bangalore (2012)

Dr. S Banerjee, DAE, Mumbai (2011)

Prof. S B Krupanidhi, IISc, Bangalore (2010)

7. MRSI MEDAL LECTURES

MRSI Medals are awarded in recognition of excellence in a particular field of expertise within the domain of materials and processes. Recipients of these medals are invited to deliver lectures at the MRSI Annual Meeting. So far 243 Medals have been awarded

The MRSI Medal winners for the years 1990 to 2009 are listed below

MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2013		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2012
Dr. Subi Jacob Georg	JNCASR, Bangalore	Dr. B L V Prasad	NCL, Pune
Prof. Aninda J Bhattacharyya	IISc, Bangalore	Prof. R Vijayaraghavan	VIT, Vellore
Dr. Sabu Thomas	M G University, Kottayam	Prof. I  Samajdar	IIT, Mumbai
Dr. Kota Murali	IBM India, Bangalore	Prof. T K Nath	IIT, Kharagpur
Dr. Sheela Berchmans	CERI, Karaikudi	Dr. S A R  Hashmi	AMPRI, Bhopal
Dr. G Padmanabham	ARC-I, Hyderabad	Prof. K K Raina	Thapar University, Patiala
Dr. A M Biradar	NPL, New Delhi	Prof. (Mrs) S Manocha	S P University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
Prof. Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar	BESU, Shibpur	Dr. Tarun K Mandal	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. G Amarendra	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. R Mukhopadhyay	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. Kulamani Parida	Instt. of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar	Dr. P Barat	Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata
Dr. Nikhil K Singha	IIT, Kharagpur	Prof. Vinay Gupta	University of Delhi, Delhi
Dr. S K Gupta	BARC, Mumbai	Prof. Arindam Ghosh	IISc, Bangalore
Dr (Mrs). Lakshmi Kantam	IICT, Hyderabad	Prof. Ratnamala Chatterji	IIT, New Delhi
		Prof. Bikramjit Basu	IISc, Bangalore
		Dr. Roy Johnson	ARC-I, Hyderabad
		Dr. Chandra Prakash	DRDO, Delhi

MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2010		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2011
Dr. S R Barman,	UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore	Dr. Amitava Mitra	NML, Jamshedpur
Dr. Subhasish Basu Majumder	IIT, Kharagpur	Dr. Avanish Kumar Srivastava	NPL, New Delhi
Dr. D Ramaiah	NIST, Thiruvanathapuram	Prof. Asim Bhaumik	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. T Gnanasekaran	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. Harish C Barshilia	NAL, Bangalore
Prof. B Jagirdar	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. John Philip	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Prof. R K Mandal	BHU, Varanasi	Dr. C Gouri	VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. P K Khanna	C-MET, Pune	Dr. Ram Gopal	Allahabad University, Allahabad
Dr. V P S Awana	NPL, New Delhi	Prof. M Eswaramoorthy	JNCASR, Bangalore
Dr. P R Harikrishna Varma	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram	Dr. O S Panwar	NPL, New Delhi
Dr. P K Biswas	CGCRI, Kolkata	Dr. N Ravishankar	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. Bharat B Kale	C-MET, Pune	Prof. Arindam Banerjee	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. D K Aswal	BARC, Mumbai	Prof. Rajiv Prakash	BHU, Varanasi
Dr. K K anda	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. L M Kukreja	RRCAT, Indore
Dr. A K Singh	DMRL, Hyderabad	Dr. P S Anil Kumar	IISc, Bangalore
Prof. R Murugavel	IIT, Mumbai

MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2008		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2009
Dr. D P Amalnerkar,	C-MET, Pune	Dr. Absar Ahmad	National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay	IIT, Guwahati	Prof. A. Basu Mallick	Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah
Dr. Ashok Kumar Ray	NML, Jamshedpur	Dr. S K Bhaumik	NAL, Bangalore
Dr. Dilshad Akhtar	DMRL, Hyderabad	Dr. Karabi Das	IIT, Kharagpur
Dr. R K Kotnala	NPL, New Delhi	Dr. T Prem Kumar	CGCRI, Karaikudi
Prof. Y N Mohapatra	IIT-Kanpur	Dr. A Sundaresan	JNCASR, Bangalore
Prof. N K Mukhopadhyay	BHU, Varanasi	Dr. S Sethuraman	Center for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials, Thanjavur
Prof. S K Ray	IIT, Kharagpur	Dr. Shantikumar Nair	Amrita Institute of Nanoscience, Kochi
Dr. P Sujatha Devi	CGCRI, Kolkata	Dr. M T Sebastian	NIIST, Trivandrum
Dr. Suresh Das	RRL, Thiruvananthapuram	Prof. Subodh Kumar De	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. A K Tyagi	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Prof. Subhasis Ghosh	J N University, New Delhi
Dr. S M Yusuf	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. Tata Narasinga Rao	ARC-I, Hyderabad
		Dr. B V R Tata	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
		Prof. Uday Maitra	IISc, Bangalore




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2006		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2007
Dr. Amlan J Pal	IACS, Kolkata	Dr. Ajayaghosh A	RRL, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. Ganguli A K	IIT, Delhi	Dr. Ashim Kumar Mukhopadhyay	DMRL, Hyderabad
Dr. George Thomas K	RRL, Trivandrum	Dr. Ashok M Raichur	IISc, Bangalore
Prof. Kashyap B P	IIT, Mumbai	Dr. Basu R N	CGCRI, Kolkata
Dr. Muraleedharan Nair K G	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. Chacko Jacob	IIT Kharagpur
Dr. Patra A	CGCRI, Kolkata	Dr. Chandrabhas N	JNCASR, Bangalore
Dr. Poonam Tandon	Lucknow University, Lucknow	Dr. Parthasarathi G	NGRI, Hyderabad
Prof. Sampath S	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. Pathak L C	NML, Jamshedpur
Dr. Sharada Srinivasan	NIAS, Bangalore	Prof. Ranganathan R	SINP, Kolkata
Dr. Shivaprasad, S M	NPL, New Delhi	Dr. Subrata Chatterjee	Bengal Engg & Sci University, Howrah
Prof. Siddartha Das	IIT, Kharagpur	Dr. Sujeet Chaudhary	IIT-Delhi, New Delhi
Dr. Srikanth S	NML, Chennai
Dr. Swapan Pati K	JNCASR, Bangalore
Dr. Upendra Natarajan	NCL, Pune




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2004		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2005
Dr. Dr. Amarnath Sen	CGCRI, Kolkata	Dr. Arvind Sinha	NML, Jamshedpur
Dr. A Bharathi	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. Balasubramanian	JNCASR, Bangalore
Prof. Bhupendra N Dev	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Dr. R C Budhani	IIT Kanpur
Prof. Devang V Khakhar	IIT, Mumbai	Prof. K Byrappa	Mysore University, Mysore
Prof. K Jyothindra Kumar	Govt. Dental College, Thiruvananthapuram	Prof. S Chandrasekaran	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. G P Kothiyal	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. Goutam De	CGCRI, Kolkata
Dr. A N Maitra	Univ. of Delhi, Delhi	Dr. S K Kulshreshtha	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. R Mitra	IIT, Kharagpur	Dr. S Radhakrishnan	NCL, Pune
Dr. Murali Sastry	NCL, Pune	Dr. Sulabha Kulkarni	Pune University, Pune
Prof. A Narayanasamy	Univ. of Chennai, Chennai	Prof. Subhadra Chaudhuri	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. C K S Pillai C K S	RRL, Thiruvananthapuram	Dr. A K Tyagi	BARC, Mumbai
Prof. SS Sekhon	Guru Nanak Dev Univ, Amritsar	Dr. Umesh Waghmare	JNCASR, Bangalore
Prof. Shanker Ram	IIT, Kharagpur
Dr. G N Subbanna	MRC, IISc, Bangalore




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2002		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2003
Prof. Ashok  Misra	IITB, Mumbai	Prof. Arun K Nandi	IACS, Kolkata
Prof. S Ramakrishnan	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. Debabrata Basu	CGCRI, Kolkata
Prof. Devendra Kumar	BHU, Varanasi	Dr. R M V Gopala Krishna Rao	NAL, Bangalore
Dr. G S Bhuvaneshwar	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram	Dr. S C Jain	NFC, Hyderabad
Dr. P N Subramanian	VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram	Dr. B D Malhotra	NPL, New Delhi
Dr. S L Chaplot	BARC, Mumbai	Prof. B R Mehta	IIT, New Delhi
Prof. V Damodara Das	IIT, Madras	Dr. B S Murty	IIT Kharagpur
Prof. T Pradeep	IIT, Madras	Dr. B C Pai	RRL, Trivandrum
Dr. Shobhana Narasimhan	JNCASR, Bangalore	Dr. T L Prakash	C-Met, Hyderabad
Prof. S H Pawar	Shivaji University, Kolhapur	Dr. Pushan Ayyub	TIFR, Mumbai
Dr. S D Majumdar	ACC, Thane	Dr. Suman Kumari Mishra	NML, Jamshedpur
Dr. S V Joshi	ARCI, Hyderabad	Dr. V Venugopal	BARC, Mumbai
Prof. A N Kumar	IIT, Delhi	Dr. M Vijayalakshmi	IGCAR, Kalpakkam




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2000		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 2001
Dr. R Bhattacharya	NPL, New Delhi	Shri. Chintamani	NFC, Hyderabad
Prof. Atul Choksi	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. A Ghosh	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. G P Das	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. Gurnam Singh	CAT, Indore
Dr. S C Gupta,	BARC, Mumbai	Prof. R Nagarajan	TIFR, Mumbai
Dr. Y Hariharan	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. G J Prasad	BARC, Mumbai
Prof. I Manna	IIT, Kharagpur	Dr. K Sheela Ramsesha	NAL, Bangalore
Prof. S N Ojha,	BHU, Varanasi	Dr. B Viswanathan	IGCAR,Kalpakkam
Dr. A R Raju	JNCASR, Bangalore	Dr. G K Dey	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. T G Ramesh	NAL, Bangalore	Dr. A Govindaraj	SSCU,IISc, Bangalore
Prof. M K Sanyal	SINP, Kolkata	Dr. M Jayabalan	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram
Prof. Ajay Sood	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. S K Pabi	IIT, Kharagpur
Dr. A K Suri	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. N Ramakrishnan	DMRL, Hyderabad
Dr. V K Wadhawan	CAT, Indore	Dr. T Ramasami	CLRI, Chennai
		Dr. K G Satyanarayana	RRL, Thiruvananthapuram
		Dr. O M Sreedharan	IGCAR,Kalpakkam




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1998		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1999
Dr. A K Jha	RRL, Bhopal	Dr. R Balasubramanian	IIT Kanpur
Dr. Om Prakash	BHU, Varanasi	Dr. M K Banerjee	BEC, Bengal
Prof. B Viswanathan	IIT, Madras	Dr. G V Kulkarni	JNCASR, Bangalore
Dr. Pradha D Nair	SCTIMST,Trivandrum	Dr. S Natarajan	JNCASR, Bangalore
Dr. Neeraj Khare	NPL, Delhi	Dr. Navin Chand	RRL, Bhopal
Dr. P S Goyal	BARC,Mumbai	Dr. T Rajasekharan	DMRL, Hyderabad
Mr. K S Ghosh	TISCO, Jamshedpur	Dr. S K Ray	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr.(Ms) Prabaha R Chatterjee	IICT,Hyderabad	Dr. S M Sharma	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. P R Vasudeva Rao	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. K Sreenivas	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. K B R Varma	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. Swati Ray	IACS, Kolkata
Prof. S N Kaul	Central University, Hyderabad	Dr. Santanu Bhattacharya	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. T Bandyopadhyaya	CGCRI, Kolkata	Dr. G V S Sastry	BHU, Varanasi
Dr. G Malakondaiah	DMRL, Hyderabad	Dr. A Venkateswara Rao	Shivaji University, Kolhapur




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1996		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1997
Dr. B M Arora	TIFR, Mumbai	Dr. G Banerjee	CGCRI, Kolkata
Dr. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. K Bhanu Sankara Rao	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr. A K Grover	TIFR, Mumbai	Dr. A Jayakrishna	SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr. E V Sampath Kumar	TIFR, Mumbai	Dr. V N Krishnamurthy	VSSC, Bangalore
Dr. S A Shivashankar	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. N G Nair	IIT, Madras
Dr. Subhash Chandra	NPL, Pune	Dr. M C Pandey	DMRL, Hyderabad
Dr. Vikram Jayaram	IISc, Bangalore	Dr . Rameshwar Jha	TISCO, Jamshedpur
Dr. Vijay Kumar	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Prof. M K Surappa	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. Arun Umarji	IISc,Bangalore	Dr. B P Sharma	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. D Bahadur	IIT, Mumbai	Dr. B K Godwal	BARC, Mumbai
Prof. T Nagarajan	Madras University, Chennai	Prof. T N Guru Row	IISc., Bangalore
Prof. R G Sharma	NPL, New Delhi	Prof. S B Krupanidhi	IISc., Bangalore
Prof. R P Singh	IIT, Kharagpur	Dr. B M Mandal	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. K Vijayamohanan	NCL, Pune	Dr. K S Narayan	JNCASR, Bangalore
Prof. U V Varadaraju	IIT, Madras	Prof. R Pinto	TIFR, Mumbai
		Prof. V D Vankar	IIT,New Delhi
		Prof. V N Rajasekharan Pillai	M G University, Kottayam




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1994		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1995
Dr. K Balakrishnan	CECRI, Karaikudi	Prof. S C Agarawal	IIT, Kanpur
Prof. M S Hegde	IISc, Banalore	Prof. Pushpa Bajaj	New Delhi
Prof. S V Bhat	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. A K Gupta	NPL, New Delhi
Prof. H L Bhat	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. Pran Kishan	SSPL, New Delhi
Prof. S K Biswas	IISc, Bangalore	Prof. T R N Kutty	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. D Bhattacharya	IIT, Kharagpur	Prof. L K Malhotra	IIT, New Delhi
Dr. R N Ghosh	NML, Jamshedpur	Prof. L M Manocha	S.P.University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
Dr. Sudhir S Kulkarni	NCL, Pune	Dr. O N Mohanty	TISCO, Jamshedpur
Prof. V V P Kutumba Rao	BHU, Varanasi	Dr. T K Mukherjee	BARC.Mumbai
Dr. C Manohar	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. V S Raghunathan	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr. S K Mitra	Tata Steel, Jamshedpur	Dr. B K Sarkar	CGCRI, Kolkata
Prof. A K Pal	IACS, Kolkata	Prof. S P Sengupta	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. T S Radhakrishnan	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Prof. Subrata Ray	Univ. of Roorkee, Roorkee
Dr.(Mrs)Indira Rajgopal	NAL, Bangalore	Prof. Shamsuddin	BHU,Varanasi
Dr.(Mrs).G Rohini Devi	DRDL, Hyderabad
Dr. C P Sharma	SCTIMST, Trivandrum
Dr. C S Sundar	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Prof.S V Suryanarayana	OU, Hyderabad




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1992		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1993
Dr. B K Das	NPL, New Delhi	Dr. D Ganguli	CGCRI, Kolkata
Dr. Y R Mahajan	DMRL, Hyderabad	Prof. O Prabhakar	IIT, Madras
Prof. Vikram Kumar	IISc, Bangalore	Prof. G S Upadhyaya	IIT, Kanpur
Dr. G Sundarajan	DMRL, Hyderabad	Dr. S L Mannan	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Prof. S Mohan	IISc Bangalore	Dr. K C Patil	IISc, Bangalore
Prof. K T Jacob	IISc, Bangalore	Prof. K V S Rama Rao	IIT, Madras
Prof. G Ananthakrishna	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. S K Date	NCL, Pune
Prof. P Ramasamy	Anna Univ. Chennai	Dr. C Ganguly	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. R Thyagarajan	SSPL, Delhi	Dr. L Madhav Rao	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. S P Garg	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. R B Subramanyam	DMRL, Hyderabad
Prof. D Chakravorty	IACS, Kolkata	Dr. Sanak Mishra	SAIL (R & D) Ranchi
Prof. P Ganguly	NCL, Pune	Prof. K A Natarajan	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. Baldev Raj	IGCAR, Kalpakkam	Dr. Krishan Lal	NPL, New Delhi
Prof. S Banerjee	NML, Jamashedpur	Dr. A K Shukla	IISc, Bangalore
Dr. A D Damodaran	RRL, Trivandrum	Dr. A K Chatterjee	ACC Ltd, Thane
Dr. R Sivakumar	SCTIMST, Trivandrum	Dr. C K Mathews	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr. S R Rajagopalan	NAL, Bangalore
Dr. N Balasubramanian	Everest Ltd.,Bangalore
Dr. Pradip	TRDDC, Pune
Dr. C G Krishnadas Nair	HAL,Bangalore
Prof. P Pramanik	IIT, Kharagpur




MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1990		MRSI MEDAL WINNERS 1991
Prof. S B Ogale	University of  Poona, Pune	Prof. S Ranganathan	IISc, Bangalore
Prof. G V Subba Rao	IIT , Madras	Dr. J Mukherji	CGCRI, Kolkata
Dr. P Muralidharan	SSPL, Delhi	Dr. A H Sequeria	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. D Pandey	BHU, Varanasi	Prof. D N Bose	IIT, Kharagpur
Prof. S V Subramanyam	IISc, Bangalore	Dr. A K Sreedhar	SSPL, New Delhi
Dr. S Sivaram	NCL, Pune	Dr. A K Singh	NAL, Bangalore
Prof. K Chattopadhyay	IISc, Bangalore	Prof. A K Barua	IACS, Kolkata
Dr. M K Sreedhar	NAL, Bangalore	Dr. S K Sikka	BARC, Mumbai
Dr. V Chandrasekharan	DMRL, Hyderabad	Dr. H S Maiti	CGCRI, Kolkata
Prof. C Lakkad	IIT, Mumbai	Prof. J Gopalakrishnan	IISc, Bangalore
Prof. D D Sarma	IISc, Bangalore	Prof. R Srinivasan	IIT, Madras
Prof. K A Padmanabhan	IIT, Madras	Dr. C K Gupta,	BARC, Mumbai
Prof. Manu Multani	TIFR, Mumbai	Prof. B K Sadashiva	RRI, Bangalore
Dr. N C Birla	DMRL, Hyderabad	Dr. P Rodriguez	IGCAR, Kalpakkam
Dr. A M Varaprasad	DMSRDE, Kanpur	Dr. O P Bahl	NPL, New Delhi
Dr. S Banerjee	BARC, Mumbai	Dr. V M Nadkarni	NCL, Pune
		Dr. D Banerjee	DMRL, Hyderabad

In addition to the above awards there are prizes given for the best paper presented at the annual general body meeting.
The following papers were selected for the best paper prize.

Best Paper Prize
(For publication in the Bulletin of Materials Science)

2013:
"Effect of TiO2 nanotube length and lateral tubular spacing on photovoltaic properties of back illuminated dye sensitized solar cell" by Shantikumar V Naik, A M Asha , A Balakrishnan, A M Anu, K R V Subramanian, B Deepika, Nano Solar Division, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Kochi,  August 2012, Vol (35) No. 4, 489-493

"Pd grating obtained by direct micromolding for use in high resolution optical diffraction based sensing" by Ritu Gupta and Giridhar U Kulkarni, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore 560 064, October 2012, Vol (35) No. 5, 773-779

2012:
“Formation of nanoscale tungsten oxide structures and colouration characteristics” by Vijay Bhooshan Kumar and Dambarudhar Mohanta, Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Volume 34,  No 3,  June  2011, pp 435

2011:
“Low temperature synthesis of Ba1–xSrxSnO3 (x = 0–1) from molten alkali hydroxide flux” by B Ramdas and R Vijayaraghavan, Materials Division, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Vellore, BMS, Volume 33,  No.1, February 2010, pp 75-78.

2010:
'Low temperature synthesis of nanosized Mn1-xZnxFe2O4 ferrites and their characterizations' by Rajesh Iyer, Rucha  Desai and R V Upadhyay has been adjudged as the best paper published in the BMS, Volume (32), No. 2, April 2009, pp. 141-147

2009:
“Studies on Nanocrystalline Zinc Coating” by H B Muralidhara and Y Arthoba Naik, Department of PG Studies and Research in Chemistry, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta  Bulletin of Materials Science, Volume (31), No. 4, August 2008, pp.585

2008:
‘Effect of size of copper nanoparticles on its catalytic behaviour in Ullman reaction’ by Mohd. Samim, N K Kaushik and Amarnath Maitra, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol 30 (2007) p.535

2007:
‘Functional finishing in cotton fabrics using zinc oxide nanoparticles’ by A Yadav, Virendra Prasad, A A Kathe, Sheela Raj, Deepti Yadav, C Sundaramoorthy and N Vigneshwaran, Nanotechnology Group, Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai 400 019, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol (29), No. 6, November 2006, pp. 641-645.

2006:
‘Polyvinyl alcohol-cellulose composite: a taste sensing material’ by Sarmishtha Majumdar and Basudam Adhikari, Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302 Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol (28), No. 7, December 2005, pp. 703-712.

2005:
‘Fabrication of silicon based glass fibres for optical communication’ by Vivek P Kude, Department of Applied Physics, MGM College of Engineering, Nanded and R S Khairnar, School of Physical Sciences, SRTMU, Vishnupuri, Nanded, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol 27 (1), February 2004, pp 73-77.

2004:
‘Development of fully Injectable Calcium Phosphate Cement for Orthopedic and Dental Applications’ by Manoj Komath and H K Varma, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol 26 (4), (2003), p 415.

2003:
‘Preliminary in vitro and in vivo characterizations of a solgel derived bio-active glass ceramic system’ by S Abhiraman, H K Varma, T V Kumari, P R Umashankar and Annie John, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol 25 (5) (2002), p 419.

2002:
‘Non Equilibrium Solidification of undercooled droplets during Atomization Process’ by Prasanth Shukla, R K Mandal and S N Ojha, Centre for Advanced Study, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol 24 (2001) p. 547.

2001:
‘Helium implanted A1Hf as studied by 181Ta TDPAC’ by R Govindaraj, Materials Science Division, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, K P Gopinathan, Dept. of Physics, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin and B Viswanathan, Materials Science Division, IGCAR, Kalpakkam, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 23, No. 3, June (2000), p 201

2000:
‘Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-ray diffraction studies of Quantum Wells’, by D V Sridhara Rao, L Muraleedharan, Electron Microscopy Group, DMRL, Hyderabad, G K Dey, Materials Science Division, BARC, Mumbai, S K Halder, G Bhagavannarayan, Materials Characterization Division, NPL, New Delhi, P Banerji, D Pal and D N Bose, Advanced Technology Centre, IIT, Kharagpur, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol 22, No. 6, October (1999), pp. 947.

1999:
“Short term tissue response to carbon fibre : A preliminary in vitro and in vivo study’ by Mira Mohanty, T V Kumary, Division of Pathophysiology, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, Arthur V Lal, Vivarium & Materials Group, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram and R Sivakumar, Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapura, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 21(6) (1998), p 439.

1998:
‘A New inexpensive method for the preparation of acicular precursors for magnetic recording media’ by M R Anantharaman, K V Joseph and H V Keer, Dept. of chemistry, IIT, Mumbai, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 20, (1997), p 975.

1997:
“Crystallization of glass in Fireclay Refractories’ by Dr. S P Choudhury and Dr. T Dutta, CGCRI, Kolkata, Part II and Part III, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 19 (1996), p 373.

1996: No prize was given in 1996.

1995:
“The role of additives in a complex lithium silicate glass ceramic” by Prof. R N Das, Prof. B K Chandrashekar, Ceramic Technological Institute, Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd, Bangalore & Prof. K J Rao, Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 17 (1994), p 59

1994:
“EXAFS: Determination of Cation Distribution in Spinels” by Dr. G M Bhongale, Dr. D K Kulkarni, Dept. of Physics, Institute of Science, Nagpur and Dr. V B Sapre, Dept. of Physics, Nagpur University, Nagpur, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 16 (1993), p. 243

1993:
“Dynamic Fracture Mechanics-A scientific tool for the prevention of catastrophic Failure” by Dr. R Krishna Kumar, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 15 (1992), p 55

1992:
“Ordered structures in ternary hcp alloys” by Prof. S Lele and Dr. A K Singh, BHU, Varanasi, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 14 (1991), p 11

1991:
“Thermodynamic properties of Pt5La, Pt5Ce, Pt5Pr, Pt5Tb and Pt5Tm, intermetallics” by Prof. K T Jacob, IISc, Bangalore and Prof. Y Waseda, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 13,(1990), p 235

1990:
“A cold model study of mass transfer in Q-BOP” by Prof. S L Malhotra, Dr. S Singh and Dr. N Prasad, BHU, Varanasi, Bulletin of Materials Science, Vol. 12 (1989), p 369