FRS honour for TIFR professor

CHENNAI, MAY 12. Dr. M.S. Raghunathan, professor in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Announcing this in a communicate from London last night the vice-president of the Royal Society, Prof. Patrick Bateson, said the honour was being conferred on Prof. Raghunathan for his contribution to the improvement of ``Natural Knowledge''.

Prof. Raghunathan has been the recipient of many other awards including the Santi Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (1977), Srinivasa Ramanujan Gold medal (1991) given by the INSA, and the Third World Academy Prize (1991).

Prof. Raghunathan also holds the S.N. Bose Professorship of INSA since 1999.

He is also chairman of the National Board of Higher Mathematics, Dept. of Atomic Energy, and Mehta Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, Allahabad.

During his long and distinguished academic career he has participated in mathematical research and teaching in the leading universities of many countries as visiting professor.

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