Awards & Winners

C. R. Rao

Date of Birth 10-September-1920
Place of Birth Hoovina Hadagali
(India, Karnataka, Bellary district)
Nationality India, United States of America, United Kingdom
Also know as C. Radhakrishna Rao
Profession Statistician, Mathematician
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao is an Indian American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002. The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine." The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.

Awards by C. R. Rao

Check all the awards nominated and won by C. R. Rao.

2001


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For his pioneering contributions to the foundations of statistical theory and multivariate statistical methodology, and their applications, enriching the physical, biological, mathematical, economic and engineering sciences.)