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The '''Krishnan Medal''' is an Indian geology award given annually by the [[Indian Geophysical Union]].<ref>[http://www.igu.in]</ref> The award is named after [[M. S. Krishnan (geologist)|M. S. Krishnan]], an eminent geologist.<br />
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==Overview==<br />
The Indian Geophysical Union instituted the [http://www.igu.in/awards.htm#KRISHNAN%20MEDAL Krishnan Medal] to be awarded each year to an outstanding geophysicist/geologist whose age does not exceed 40 years (on 1 January of the year) for outstanding work in specific branches of geophysics/geology and related geosciences.<br />
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==Nomination==<br />
Nominations each year are called from the members of the Executive Council, past recipients of the medal and past Presidents for the award of the [http://www.igu.in/awards.htm#KRISHNAN%20MEDAL Krishnan Medal] and constitute an Expert Committee to make the selection for each year. The medallist is presented with the award at the next annual meeting. Since 1993 a Gold Medal has been awarded to the recipient.<br />
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Nominations, along with the bio-data, accompanied by 4 copies of the reprints of 3 important publications of the candidates should be sent to the Secretary, Indian Geophysical Union, by 31 July, of the year. <br />
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==Recipients==<br />
Source: [http://www.igu.in/awards.htm#KRISHNAN%20MEDAL IGU]<br />
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*'''1964''' Manik Talwani<br />
*'''1965''' [[Devendra Lal]]<br />
*'''1966''' H. M. Iyer<br />
*'''1967''' S. Balakrishna<br />
*'''1968''' A. Jayaraman<br />
*'''1969''' Supriya Roy<br />
*'''1970''' C. Radhakrishna Murthy<br />
*'''1971''' D. N. Avasthi<br />
*'''1972''' D. Gupta Sarma<br />
*'''1973''' K. V. Raghava Rao<br />
*'''1974''' [[Janardan Ganpatrao Negi|J. G. Negi]]<br />
*'''1975''' R. K. Verma<br />
*'''1976''' [[Krishan Lal Kaila|K. L. Kaila]]<br />
*'''1977''' M. B. Ramachandran Nair<br />
*'''1978''' [[Harsh Gupta|H. K. Gupta]]<br />
*'''1979''' [[Vinod Kumar Gaur|V. K. Gaur]]<br />
*'''1980''' S. K. Verma<br />
*'''1981''' S. Krishnaswamy<br />
*'''1982''' K. Gopalan<br />
*'''1983''' I. V. Radhakrishna Murthy<br />
*'''1984''' [[B. H. Briz Kishore]]<br />
*'''1985''' [[Sampat Kumar Tandon|S. K. Tandon]]<br />
*'''1986''' ''No award''<br />
*'''1987''' R .K. Tiwari<br />
*'''1988''' A. K. Singhvi<br />
*'''1989''' S. Dasgupta<br />
*'''1990''' ''No award''<br />
*'''1991''' [[Shyam Sundar Rai|S. S. Rai]]<br />
*'''1992''' ''No award''<br />
*'''1993''' [[Kusala Rajendran]]<br />
*'''1994''' Rajiv Nigam<br />
*'''1995''' Anil Kumar<br />
*'''1996''' [[Kolluru Sree Krishna]], K. Sain<br />
*'''1997''' P. Divakar Naidu<br />
*'''1998''' Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay<br />
*'''1999''' A. K. Chaubey<br />
*'''2000''' M.Radhakrishna and Y.V.B.Sarma<br />
*'''2001''' P. Sengupta<br />
*'''2002''' [[B. S. Daya Sagar]]<ref>http://www.isibang.ac.in/~bsdsagar</ref><br />
*'''2003''' ''No award''<br />
*'''2004''' U. Kulshrestha and Ajay Manglik<br />
*'''2005''' V. Chakravarthi<br />
*'''2006''' Vineet K. Gahalaut and Niloy Khare<br />
*'''2007''' Chalapathi Rao, Laxmidhar Behera<br />
*'''2008''' Virendra Mani Tiwari, Abhayaram Bansal<br />
*'''2009''' [[Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray]]<br />
*'''2010''' Prakash Kumar and Hetu C. Sheth<br />
*'''2011''' Pradeep Srivatsava and B. Prasanta Kumar Patro<br />
*'''2012''' M. Ram Mohan and Rajesh Agnihotri<br />
*'''2013''' Saumen Maiti and Senthil Kumar<br />
*'''2014''' Pawan Dewangan<br />
*'''2015''' Parthasarathi Chakraborty; M. S. Girish Kumar<br />
*'''2016''' Uma Shankar<br />
*'''2017''' Nimisha Vedanti and Develeena Mani<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[List of geology awards]]<br />
* [[List of geophysics awards]]<br />
* [[List of earth sciences awards]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Geology awards]]<br />
[[Category:Indian awards]]<br />
[[Category:Awards established in 1964]]<br />
[[Category:Geophysics awards]]<br />
[[Category:Earth sciences awards]]</div>->JJMC89 bot III