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==Awards and medals== {{more citations needed section|date=August 2023}} {{div col|colwidth=35em}} * [[Guy Medal]] in Gold (2011) of the [[Royal Statistical Society]]{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} * [[India Science Award]] 2010 (the highest award in a scientific field presented by government of India)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2010-news/Rao10-2010|title=C.R. Rao Receives the India Science Award|date=19 October 2010|publisher=[[Eberly College of Science]], [[Penn State University]]|access-date=28 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926001137/http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2010-news/Rao10-2010|archive-date=26 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> * International Mahalanobis Prize (2003) of the [[International Statistical Institute]]<ref>"The previous winners of the Award are Professor C.R. Rao (India) in 2003..." {{cite web |url=http://www.isi-web.org/component/content/article/43-about/about/588-2013-mahalanobis-international-award-in-statistics-announcement |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101160834/http://www.isi-web.org/component/content/article/43-about/about/588-2013-mahalanobis-international-award-in-statistics-announcement |archive-date=1 January 2014}}</ref> * Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal (2003) of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] * [[Sardar Patel]] Lifetime Achievement International Award (Sardar Ratna) (2014) by Sardar Patel International Foundation, [[India]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sardarpatelaward.org/awardgallery.php?sid=MTA=|title=NRI Award, Sardar Patel Award, Sardar Ratna, Pravasi Bharatiya Award, International Award|website=www.sardarpatelaward.org}}</ref> * President [[George W. Bush]], on 12 June 2002, honoured him with the [[National Medal of Science]], the highest award in US in the scientific field, as a "prophet of new age" with the citation, "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." * [[Padma Vibhushan]] (2001) by the [[Government of India]]<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |year=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015}}</ref> * Mahalanobis Centenary Gold Medal (1993?) of the [[Indian Science Congress]] * [[Wilks Memorial Award]] (1989) of the [[American Statistical Association]] * [[Padma Bhushan]] (1968)<ref name="Padma Awards" /> * Megnadh Saha Medal (1969) of the Indian National Science Academy * [[Guy Medal]] in Silver (1965) of the [[Royal Statistical Society]] * [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology|S. S. Bhatnagar Award]] (1963) of [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] * JC Bose Gold Medal of the [[Bose Institute]] * Gold Medal of the [[University of Calcutta]] * He was also awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Science]] by the [[University of Calcutta]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/convocation/hony_degrees.htm|title=Recipients of Honorary Degrees|publisher=[[University of Calcutta]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234707/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/convocation/hony_degrees.htm|archive-date=30 December 2013}}</ref> Also honorary doctorates from a number of universities and institutes around the world. {{div col end}} * 2023 [[International Prize in Statistics]] ===In his honour=== {{div col|colwidth=35em}} * The [[Pennsylvania State University]] has established C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize in Statistics * [[CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science]] * National Award in Statistics established by [[Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation]] (MoSPI), Government of India. * The road from [[International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad|IIIT Hyderabad]] passing along [[University of Hyderabad|Central University of Hyderabad]] crossroads to Alind Factory, [[Lingampally, Hyderabad|Lingampally]] is named as "Prof. C.R. Rao Road".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/10/stories/2009091059940300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913102243/http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/10/stories/2009091059940300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 September 2009|title=Road to be named after Prof. C.R. Rao|access-date=6 May 2012|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=10 September 2009}}</ref> {{div col end}}
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