Awards

Since 1965, various type of awards are being given to eminent Indian Scientists by The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA). This programme gives the Association an opportunity to honour scientists of repute. Till 1987 all the awards/lectures were funded by voluntary benevolent donations. From 1988 onwards, some Birth Centenary Awards, Memorial Awards and Award Lectures are being organized by ISCA from its own fund.

The Executive Committee of the Association in its meeting held on 14 October 2007 decided that ISCA awards/lectures be put into the following categories:

A. CATEGORY – I
B. CATEGORY– II
C. CATEGORY – III
D. CATEGORY – IV
E. SPECIAL CATEGORY

It was also decided that the same person shall not be offered an award for the second time within the same category for the above awards/lectures.

A. CATEGORY – I

S. No.	Name of the award/ lecture	Year
1	Asutosh Mookerjee Memorial Award	1988

B. CATEGORY– II

S. No.	Name of the award/ lecture	Year
1	C.V. Raman Birth Centenary Award	1989
2	Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award	1989
3	M.N. Saha Birth Centenary Award	1989
4	P.C. Mahalanobis Birth Centenary Award	1989
5	S.N. Bose Birth Centenary Award	1994-95
6	S.K. Mitra Birth Centenary Award	1994-95
7	Birbal Sahni Birth Centenary Award	1994-95
8	J. C. Bose Memorial Award	1989
9	P. C. Ray Memorial Award	1989
10	H. J. Bhabha Memorial Award	1989
11	S.S. Bhatnagar Memorial Award	1997-98
12	D.S. Kothari Memorial Award	1997-98
13	B.P. Pal Memorial Award	1989
14	Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award	1997-98
15	Prof. R. C. Mehrotra Memorial Life Time Achievement Award	2005-2006
16	M.K. Singal Memorial Award	2009-2010

C. CATEGORY – III

S. No.	Name of the award/ lecture	Year
1	Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award	1989-90
2	B.C. Guha Memorial Lecture	1965
3	Raj Kristo Dutt Memorial Award	1991
4	G.P. Chatterjee Memorial Award	1981
5	Prof. R.C. Mehrotra Commemoration Lecture	1998-99
6	Prof. Sushil Kumar Mukherjee Commemoration Lecture	1999-2000
7	Prof. S. S. Katiyar Endowment Lecture	2003-2004
8	Millennium Plaques of Honour	2003-2004
9	Prof. Archana Sharma Memorial Award	2010-2011
10	Prof. G.K.Manna Memorial Award	2010-2011
11	Dr. V. Puri Memorial Award	2011-2012

D. CATEGORY – IV

S. No.	Name of the award/ lecture	Year
1	Professor Hira Lal Chakravarty Award	1984
2	Pran Vohra Award	1989
3	Professor Umakant Sinha Memorial Award	1991
4	Dr. B.C. Deb Memorial Award for Soil/ Physical Chemistry	1994-95
5	Dr. B.C. Deb Memorial Award for Popularisation of Science	1994-95
6	Professor K.P. Rode Memorial Lecture	1989
7	Professor R.C. Shah Memorial Lecture	1995-96
8	Prof. (Mrs.) Anima Sen Memorial Lecture	2000-2001
9	Dr. (Mrs.) Gouri Ganguly Memorial Award for Young Scientist in Animal Science	2002-2003

E. SPECIAL CATEGORY

S. No.	Name of the award/ lecture	Year
1	Jawaharlal Nehru Prize	1998-99
2	Excellence in Science and Technology	2004-2005
3	Infosys Foundation – ISCA Travel Award	2004-2005