Krishnan Medal

The Krishnan Medal is an Indian geology award given annually by the Indian Geophysical Union. The award is named after M. S. Krishnan, an eminent geologist.

Overview
The Indian Geophysical Union instituted the 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.

Nomination
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 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.

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.

Recipients
Source: IGU

• 1964  Manik Talwani

• 1965   Devendra Lal

• 1966   H. M. Iyer

• 1967   S. Balakrishna

• 1968   A. Jayaraman

• 1969   Supriya Roy

• 1970   C. Radhakrishna Murthy

• 1971   D. N. Avasthi

• 1972   D. Gupta Sarma

• 1973   K. V. Raghava Rao

• 1974   J. G. Negi

• 1975   R. K. Verma

• 1976   K. L. Kaila

• 1977   M. B. Ramachandran Nair

• 1978   H. K. Gupta

• 1979   V. K. Gaur

• 1980   S. K. Verma

• 1981   S. Krishnaswamy

• 1982   K. Gopalan

• 1983   I. V. Radhakrishna Murthy

• 1984  B. H. Briz Kishore

• 1985   S. K. Tandon

• 1986   No award

• 1987   R .K. Tiwari

• 1988   A. K. Singhvi

• 1989   S. Dasgupta

• 1990   No award

• 1991   S. S. Rai

• 1992   No award

• 1993   Kusala Rajendran

• 1994   Rajiv Nigam

• 1995   Anil Kumar

• 1996   Kolluru Sree Krishna, K. Sain

• 1997   P. Divakar Naidu

• 1998   Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay

• 1999   A. K. Chaubey

• 2000   M.Radhakrishna and Y.V.B.Sarma

• 2001   P. Sengupta

• 2002   B. S. Daya Sagar

• 2003   No award

• 2004   U. Kulshrestha and Ajay Manglik

• 2005   V. Chakravarthi

• 2006   Vineet K. Gahalaut and Niloy Khare

• 2007   Chalapathi Rao, Laxmidhar Behera

• 2008   Virendra Mani Tiwari, Abhayaram Bansal

• 2009   Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray

• 2010   Prakash Kumar and Hetu C. Sheth

• 2011   Pradeep Srivatsava and B. Prasanta Kumar Patro

• 2012   M. Ram Mohan and Rajesh Agnihotri

• 2013   Saumen Maiti and Senthil Kumar

• 2014   Pawan Dewangan

• 2015   Parthasarathi Chakraborty; M. S. Girish Kumar

• 2016   Uma Shankar

• 2017   Nimisha Vedanti and Develeena Mani