Tumkur University - Honorary Distinguished Professors

Honorary Distinguished Professors

Eminent personalities appointed Honorary Distinguished Professors of the University include:

• Prof. Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1991, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• Prof. Anthony Cheetham, FRS, Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK
• Prof. Azeddine Driouich, Full Professor / Co director of Glyco-MEV, Center for Plant Glycobiology, Glyco-MEV laboratory, GRR Végétal-Agronomie-Sols-Innovation, Cell Imaging Platform, PRIMACEN-IBiSA, Université de Rouen, 76821 Mont Saint-Aignan, Cedex
• Prof. Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2002), Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA and Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
• Dr. Sudha Murthy, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation, Bangalore
• Prof. Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1992), Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Prof. Tara Chandra, Faculty of Engineering, School of Mechanical, Materials & Mechatronics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
• His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
• Prof. Eric S. Maskin, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2007), Adams University Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA