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{{short description|Academy of sciences in India}}
{{distinguish|Indian National Science Academy|National Academy of Sciences, India}}
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{{Infobox university
|image = Indian Academy of Sciences Logo.png
|name = Indian Academy of Sciences
|established = 1934
|president = [[Partha P Majumder]]
|founder = [[C. V. Raman]]
|city = [[Bangalore]]
|state = [[Karnataka]]
| country = [[India]]
|website = {{URL|http://www.ias.ac.in|Official website}}
}}
The '''Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore''' was founded by [[Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman|C. V. Raman]], and was registered as a Society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meeting of Fellows, held on the same day, elected Raman as president, and adopted the constitution of the Academy.<ref name="BurmaChakravorty2011">{{cite book|author1=D. P. Burma|author2=Maharani Chakravorty|title=From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CaQ3-x3LXMC&pg=PA169|access-date=14 June 2013|year=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-3220-5|pages=169–}}</ref>

== Objectives ==
The aims of the Academy are to:

* Promote progress in pure and applied branches of science.
* Encourage important research in various branches of science.
* Represent the scientific work of India internationally.
* Publish work relating to scientific research initiated by the Academy, Provincial Academies, Universities and Government Scientific Institutions.
* Organise meetings of Committees and Conferences to discuss papers submitted to the Academy.
* Advise Government and other bodies on scientific and other matters referred to the Academy.

== Publications ==
The first issue of the Academy Proceedings appeared in two sections in July 1934. They were split into two in July 1935 - one part devoted to physical sciences and the other to life sciences.<ref name="BurmaChakravorty2011" /> In 1973 the Academy's publications were further split into several journals aimed as specific scientific disciplines.

The Academy publishes a monthly journal called ''Resonance'' since January 1996. Aimed generally at undergraduates, it also contains some material for junior and senior academic levels. Each issue focuses on the life and work of a famous scientist. It incorporates articles reviewing new books and classics. The Editorial Board comprises 40 scientists from across the country.

The Academy also publishes a monthly research journal called ''Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences'' since 1978. The journal covers all branches of Engineering Science. Sadhana is distributed in print outside India and online worldwide by [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]].

The Academy publishes 12 Journal, viz., Resonance – Journal of Science Education, Journal of Biosciences, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Journal of Genetics, Journal of Earth System and Science, Sadhana – Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Pramana – Journal of Physics, Proceedings of Mathematical Sciences, Journal of Chemical Sciences, Bulletin of Material Science, DIALOGUE: Science, Scientists, and Society, and Indian Academy of Sciences Conference Series.

== Project Lifescape ==
Aimed at enriching scientific education, the Academy launched ''Project Lifescape'' in collaboration with the [[Centre for Ecological Sciences]] at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] to spread biodiversity literacy. It aims to involve school and college students in obtaining first-hand information on the status of, and ongoing changes in, ecological habitats of a set of species of considerable human significance. An objective of the project is to publish illustrated accounts of 1500 Indian species of micro-organisms, plants and animals. The accounts would also include ancillary information on the distribution, ecology and behaviour of the species.

The project has published three books, ''Butterflies of Peninsular India'', ''Freshwater Fishes of Peninsular India'', and ''Amphibians of Peninsular India''. A fourth, ''Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India'' is available in electronic format, freely downloadable from the project website.

== The Raman Chair ==
The Government of India instituted the ''Raman Chair'' in 1972 to commemorate the memory of the founder of the Academy. Eminent scientists are invited by the Council of the Academy to occupy the Chair, for periods of between six weeks and six months.

== Science education activities ==
The Academy sponsors and conducts two-week Refresher Courses for selected teachers from across India. It awards annual Summer Research Fellowships to talented teachers and students to work with Academy Fellows on research-oriented projects in various research centres across India. It conducts Lecture Programmes at schools and universities on various research topics.

== Members of the council ==
*[[Partha P Majumder]] (President)
*[[Ramakrishna Ramaswamy]] (Previous President)
*[[Manindra Agrawal]] (Vice-President)
*Bapat, Sharmila
*[[Gautam Biswas]]
*[[Renee Borges]] (Secretary)
*[[Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri]] (Vice-President)
*[[Rohini Godbole]]
*Jayaram, Vikram
*[[V. Nagaraja]]
*[[Kapil Hari Paranjape]]
*Radhakrishnan, T P
*[[Mythily Ramaswamy]]
*Srivastava, D C
*[[Nikhil Tandon]]
*[[Sampat Kumar Tandon]] (Vice-President)
*[[Raghavan Varadarajan]] (Vice-President)
*[[Umesh Waghmare]] (Secretary)

== Presidents ==
The list of presidents of the academy.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/About_IASc/History/ | title=History | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:65%"
! scope="col" style="width:20%" | Image
! scope="col" style="width:30%" | Name
! scope="col" style="width:15%" | Tenure
|-
| [[File:Sir CV Raman.JPG|100px]] || ''[[C. V. Raman]]'' || 1934–1970
|-
|  || ''[[Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan|T. S. Sadasivan]]'' || 1971–1973
|-
|  || ''[[M. G. K. Menon]]'' || 1974–1976
|-
| || ''[[Satish Dhawan]]'' || 1977–1979
|-
| || ''[[Srinivasan Varadarajan]]'' || 1980–1982
|-
|  || ''[[S. Ramaseshan]]'' || 1983–1985
|-
|  || ''[[Obaid Siddiqi]]'' || 1986–1988
|-
| [[File:Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao 03682.JPG|100 px]] || ''[[C. N. R. Rao]]'' || 1989–1991
|-
| [[File:Roddam narasimha.jpg|100 px]] || ''[[Roddam Narasimha]]'' || 1992–1994
|-
|  || ''[[Palle Rama Rao]]'' || 1995–1997
|-
|  || ''[[Narendra Kumar (physicist)|Narendra Kumar]]'' || 1998–2000
|-
| [[File:Kasturirangan at IISc.jpg|100 px]]|| ''[[Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan]]'' || 2001–2003
|-
| [[File:T V Ramakrishnan 2696 (cropped).JPG|100 px]] || ''[[T. V. Ramakrishnan]]'' || 2004–2006
|-
| || [[Dorairajan Balasubramanian]] || 2007–2009
|-
| [[File:Ajay-Kumar-Sood-FRS.jpg|100px]] || [[Ajay K. Sood]] || 2010–2012
|-
| [[File:Dipankarchatterji1.jpg|100px]] || [[Dipankar Chatterji]] || 2013–2015
|-
| || [[Ramakrishna Ramaswamy]] || 2016–2018
|-
| || [[Partha P Majumder]] || 2019-till date
|}

== See also ==
* [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]
* [[Indian National Science Academy]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.ias.ac.in The Indian Academy of Sciences website]
*[http://www.ias.ac.in/resonance/ ''Resonance'' Journal website]
*[http://www.worldwidescience.org/ World Wide Science website]

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