Honorary Fellows & Chair Professors

Honorary Fellows

Present
  • Prof. P.R. Deligne
  • Prof. David Gross
  • Prof. G.A. Margulis
  • Prof. S. Miyake
  • Prof. D. Mumford
  • Prof. T.V. Ramakrishnan
  • Prof. C.N.R. Rao
  • Prof. James Dewey Watson
  • Prof. Samuel C. C. Ting
  • Prof. S.R.S. Varadhan
  • Mr. Ratan N. Tata
  • Prof. M.S. Raghunathan
  • Prof. Ramanath Cowsik
  • Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan
  • Prof. Takaaki Kajita
  • Prof. Michael Rosbash
  • Prof. Ashoke Sen
  • Prof. S.G. Dani
  • Prof. Deepak Dhar

Chair Professors

Sir Dorabji Tata Chairs
Prof. P. Balaram
Professor (Emeritus)
Molecular Biophysics Unit
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
(For a period of 3 years with effect from January 1, 2015)

Prof. Azim Surani, FRS
Marshall-Walton Professor
Director of Cambridge Stem Cells Genetics Prog
Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Inst.
University of Cambridge
Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK
(For a period of 5 years beginning from September 2004)

Prof. Michael Bate, FRSM
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Downing Street, CB2 3EJ, Cambridge,
England, United Kingdom
(For a period of 5 years with effect from April 1, 1999

Shri J. R. D. Tata Chair
Prof. Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena CA 91125, USA
(For a period of 3 years with effect from January 1, 2020)

Prof. Girish Agarwal, FRS
Noble Foundation Chair and Regents Professor
Department of Physics
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74074, USA
(For a period of 2 years with effect from January 1, 2014)

Prof. Madhav Nori
Department of Mathematics
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
(For a period of 5 years, beginning academic year 2000-2001)

Dr. Homi J. Bhabha Chair
Prof. Subir Sachdev
Department of Physics
Harvard University, Cambridge
(For a period of 3 years with effect from July 1, 2016)

Prof. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Bobst Library #1225
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, USA
(For a period of 2 years with effect from January 1, 2014)

Prof. John L. Cardy, FRS
Department of Theoretical Physics
1- Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK
(For a period of 3 years beginning from December 2006)

Past Honorary Fellows

  • Prof. B.V. Sreekantan
  • Prof. H. Alfven
  • Prof. P.M.S. Blackett
  • Prof. Felix Bloch
  • Prof. Niels Bohr
  • Prof. Armand Borel
  • Prof. S.N. Bose
  • Prof. Harish Chandra
  • Prof. S. Chandrasekhar
  • Sir John Cockcroft
  • Prof. A. Selberg
  • Prof. H.N. Sethna
  • Prof. V.L. Ginzburg
  • Prof. Francis Harry Compton Crick
  • Prof. R.H. Dalitz
  • Prof. P.A.M. Dirac
  • Prof. S. Dhawan
  • Prof. P.L. Kapitza
  • Prof. Jacques L. Lions
  • Dr. John Mathai
  • Shri Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Prof. Bernard Peters
  • Prof. Lord Porter
  • Prof. K. Chandrasekharan
  • Prof. E.C.G. Sudarshan
  • Prof. Sir Michael Atiyah
  • Prof. C.F. Powell
  • Prof. C.V. Raman
  • Dr. R. Ramanna
  • Prof. G.N. Ramachandran
  • Prof. B.B. Rossi
  • Prof. A. Salam
  • Prof. L. Schwartz
  • Prof. C.L. Siegel
  • Shri J.R.D. Tata
  • Prof. Andre Weil
  • Prof. D. Lal
  • Prof. Obaid Siddiqi
  • Prof. M.G.K. Menon
  • Prof. Leon M. Lederman
  • Prof. Murray Gell-Mann
  • Prof. C.S. Seshadri
  • Prof. Sir Arnold Wolfendale
  • Prof. Govind Swarup
  • Prof. M.S. Narasimhan
  • Prof. Richard Ernst
  • Prof. Anthony Hewish
  • Prof. Andre Martin