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The Raman Chair was instituted in 1972 by the Government of India to commemorate the memory of the founder of the Academy, Sir C. V. Raman. Eminent scientists are invited by the Council of the Academy to occupy the Chair, for periods of between six weeks and six months. Raman Professors who have occupied the Chair are:
   
 
     
1. Prof. R. Hanbury Brown*, F.R.S.
University of Sydney (Australia)
Jul. - Oct. 1974
     
2. Prof. Dorothy Hodgkin*
Nobel Laureate
University of Oxford (UK)
Feb. - Mar. 1979 and Nov. 1979
     
3. Prof. N. Bloembergen
Nobel Laureate
Harvard University
Cambridge (USA)
Sep. - Dec. 1979
     
4. Prof. Charles Frank*
University of Bristol (UK)
Dec. 1979 - Feb. 1980
     
5. Prof. K. R. Ramanathan*
Physical Research Laboratory
Ahmedabad (India)
Sep. - Dec. 1980
     
6. Prof. George W. Series*
University of Reading (UK)
Oct. 1982 - Feb. 1983
     
7. Prof. G. Pontecorvo*
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
London (UK)
Dec. 1982 - Feb. 1983
     
8. Prof. J. B. Goodenough
University of Oxford (UK)
Dec. 1982 - Mar. 1983
   
9. Prof. B. S. Blumberg
Nobel Laureate
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia (USA)
Jan. - Apr. 1986
     
10. Prof. John T. Bonner
Princeton University (USA)
Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991
     
11. Prof. Anatol Roshko
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena (USA)
Dec. 1993 - Jan. 1994
     
12. Prof. A. K. Ramdas
Purdue University
West Lafayette (USA)
Nov. 1994 - Jan. 1995
     
13. Prof. Sir Hermann Bondi
Churchill College
Cambridge (UK)
Dec. 1995 - Feb. 1996
   
14. Prof. B. I. Halperin
Harvard University
Cambridge (USA)
Sep. - Oct. 1996
     
15. Prof. Dan P. McKenzie
University of Cambridge (UK)
Feb. - Apr. 1997
     
16. Prof. T. N. Krishnamurti
Florida State University
Tallahassee (USA)
Dec. 1998 and Dec. 1999
     
17. Prof. Itamar Procaccia
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot (Israel)
Feb. - Mar. 2001
     
18. Prof. Albert J. Libchaber
The Rockefeller University
New York (USA)
Oct. - Nov. 2001
     
19. Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan
University of Maryland
College Park (USA)
Jun. - Jul. 2002
     
20. Prof. Philippe Nozieres
Institut Laue-Langevin
Grenoble Cedex (France)
Feb. - Mar. 2003
     
21. Prof. Robert Williams
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore (USA)
Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004
     
22. Prof. Abhay Ashtekar
Pennsylvania State University
University Park (USA)
Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2005
     
23. Prof. Anne McLaren*
Cancer Research UK
Gurdon Institute
Cambridge (UK)
Nov. - Dec. 2005 and
Oct. - Nov. 2006
     
24. Prof. Sajeev John
University of Toronto
Toronto (Canada)
Dec. 2007 - Jan. 2008
     
25. Prof. S. R. S. Varadhan
Courant Institute, New York University
New York (USA)
Jan. - Feb. 2009
     
26. Prof. Marc Fontecave
Université Joseph Fourier
Grenoble (France)
Apr. 2009 and
Oct. - Nov. 2009
     
27. Prof. Huzihiro Araki
Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)
Jul. - Sep. 2010
     
28. Prof. Anthony K. Cheetham
University of Cambridge
Cambridge (UK)
Sep. - Oct. 2011 and
Dec. 2011
     
29. Prof. Sauro Succi
Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo
Rome (Italy)
Oct. 2011 and
Jan. - Feb. 2012
     
  *Deceased
   
   
     
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