Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman - Awards

Awards

• Kamani Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals (UM) in 1960.
• National Metallurgists' Day Award of the Union Ministry of Steel and Mines in 1964.
• Shanti Swamp Bhatnagar Prize of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for Engineering Sciences in 1967.
• Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Award for individual Initiative in Science and Technology in 1972.
• Homi J. Bhabha Award for Applied Sciences by the University Grants Commission (DGC) and Hari Om Trust in 1974.
• VASVIK Award in Materials Science in 1978.
• Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) during 1979–8 I.
• Election as President of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) in 1979.
• Bhatnagar Medal of the Indian National Science Academy (INS A) in 1982.
• Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) In 1982.
• Tata Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) in 1983.
• Materials Science Prize of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 1987.
• Eminent Teacher of Metallurgy Award on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Department of Metallurgy, Bengal Engineering College, Howrah in 1990.
• Outstanding Teacher of an Engineering Institution – National A ward conferred by Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) and Uttar Pradesh Government in 1991.
• IIM Platinum Medal, the highest conferment of the Indian Institute of Metals, in 1996.
• Professor G.P. Chatterji Memorial Award of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) in 1997.
• Distinguished Services Award of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, BHU, Varanasi, on the occasion of its Platinum Jubilee in 1998.
• Dr. B.C. Roy National Award for "Eminence in Philosophy" in 2001.
• First-Ever "Lifetime Achievement Award in Metallurgy," instituted by Union Ministry of Steel and Mines in 2004.

In recognition of his numerous contributions to the Science of Metals as teacher and researcher, Anantharaman has been elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1964), the Indian National Science Academy (1972), the Institution of Metallurgists, London (1968), Indian National Academy of Engineering (1987 – its Foundation Year) and the American Society of Materials (1990). He is Honorary Member of the Indian Institute of Metals, Ehrenmitgleid Honorary Member) of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Metallkunde (German Society for Metals) and Corresponding Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Overseas Sciences. In 1989 he became the first Afro-Asian to be conferred the highly coveted Sorby Award of the International Metallographic Society for his lifelong contributions to metallography.

To quote from a citation of his Alma Mater at Bangalore in 1982, "Through his distinguished contributions to metallurgical education and research, by nurturing the Centre for Advanced Study in Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy at Varanasi and by inspiring generations of students, Professor Anantharaman has had profound influence on the growth of metallurgy in independent India. The primary credit for the outstanding profile of present-day Indian metallurgical research rightly belongs to him".