Solid State Chemistry, Surface Science, Spectroscopy and
Molecular Structure

1963~1977 Head, Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, India
1967~1968, 1982 Visiting Professor, Purdue University
1974~1975 Visiting Professor, University of Oxford
1983~1984 Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, University of
Cambridge
1984~1994 Director, Indian Institute of Science
1989~1999 President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research
1990 Visiting Professor, University Joseph Fourier,
Grenoble, France
Fellow, The Royal Society, London
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, USA
Founding Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences
2001~ President, Third World Academy of Sciences

1967 Marlow Medal Faraday Society, England
1981 The Roya Society of Chemistry (London)
Medal
1989 Hevrovsk Gold Medal, Czechoslovak Academy of
Sciences
1995 TWAS Medal for Chemistry, Third World Academy of
Sciences, Trieste
1996 Albert Einstein Gold Medal, UNESCO, Paris
2002 Commander of the order of Rio Branco, Brazil