The document summarizes the distinguished career and numerous honors of eminent statistician Professor C.R. Rao. It details his pioneering contributions to statistics, authoring over 300 research papers and 14 books. It also outlines some of his major awards, including 32 honorary doctorates from universities worldwide and India's highest civilian honor. Rao continues to be internationally recognized for laying the foundations of modern statistics and its applications across many fields.

1. The eminent scientist and world renowned statistician, Padma Vibhushan
Professor CR Rao, FRS, former Director Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata
and Delhi, one of the authors of the second five year plan is delivering a talk on
" in"Tryst with Destiny : Progress in lives of Indian Masses since Independence
the library building of parliament house on Nov. 23 rd, 2010 at 6-00 PM. The
duration of the lecture is 45 minutes, followed by 15-20 minutes of question
and answer session.
Professor CR Rao has received prestigious “India Science Award” from Hon'ble
PM Man Mohan Singh recently, which is the highest award given by the Govt. of
India for the original and path breaking research in Science. He has received 32
honorary doctorates from reputed universities/institutes of the world.
He is responsible for establishing CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS) at Hyderabad Central University and
trying to establish museum of Statistics for the first time in the world, National
Museum of Statistics," Sankhya" with the active support of Govt. of India, AP,
philanthropists from India and abroad.
For details please contact:
Dr. Yugandhar,
Member, CR Rao Adv. Inst. of Maths./Stat./Comp. Sci.(AIMSCS)
Hyd. University campus, Hyderabad
E-mail: "Yugandhar" yugandhar@bhelrnd.co.in
Dr. S.S. Handa
Professor and Sr. Consultant (Quality Management Sciences)
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi-110016
Res. phone: +91-11-27474093, Mob. +91-9810989002
E-mail: handa@isid.ac.in, Web: http://www.isid.ac.in/~handa/

2. 15 January 2010…..Four major international events were among
the celebrations in honor of Penn State's C.R. Rao, Eberly Professor Emeritus
of Statistics and one of the world's top statisticians, who turned 90 years
old. Formal celebrations included the International Workshop on Matrices
and Statistics held from 5 to 8 June 2010 in Shanghai, China; the Frontiers of
Interface Between Statistics and Sciences Conference held from 30 Dec 2009 to 2
Jan 2010 in Hyderabad, India; the International Conference on Statistics,
Probability, Operations Research, Computer Science, and Allied Areas held from
4 to 8 January 2010 in Vizag, India; and the Statistical Science Reflections and
Visions Conference held from 10 to 11 January 2010 in Kolkata,India.
Also to commemorate Rao's 90th birthday, the Indian Department of Science
and Technology honored him with the "India Science Award," the highest
honor given to a scientist. Also during 2010, the Greater Hyderabad
Municipal Corporation -- the urban planning agency that oversees Hyderabad –
has renamed one of the city's roadways as "Prof. C.R. Rao Road," and the Govt
of India's postal department released a special envelope featuring Rao's
photograph.
Rao is recognized internationally as a pioneer who laid the foundation of
modern statistics, with multifaceted distinctions as a
mathematician, researcher, scientist, and teacher. His contributions to
mathematics and to the theory and application of statistics during the last six
decades have become part of graduate and postgraduate courses in statistics,
econometrics, electrical engineering, and many other disciplines at most
universities throughout the world. Rao's research in multivariate analysis,
for example, is useful in economic planning, weather prediction, medical
diagnosis, tracking the movements of spy planes, and monitoring the
movements of spacecraft. Technical terms bearing his name appear in all
standard textbooks on statistics, econometrics, and engineering, including such
terms as the Cramer-Rao Inequality, Rao-Blackwellization, Fisher-Rao
Theorem, Rao Distance, Rao's Orthoganal Arrays, and Rao's Score test. A book
he wrote in 1965, Linear Statistical Inference and Its Applications, is one of the
most-often-cited books in science.
Among his numerous awards, Rao has received 32 honorary doctoral degrees
from universities in 18 countries on six continents, and was honored in 2003
with the first Mahalanobis International Award in Statistics from the
International Statistical Institute and the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal by the
Indian National Science Academy. In 2002 Rao was honored by President

3. George W. Bush with the National Medal of Science, the highest award given to
an American scientist for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research.
In 2001 he was honored by the Govt. of India with the Padma Vibhushan award,
country’s second-highest civilian honor, for outstanding contributions to
science, engineering, and statistics; with being selected in 2000 as the namesake
for a National Award to be presented to India's outstanding young statisticians;
and with the highest honor bestowed by Visva-Bharati, the 2002 Desikottama
award, in recognition of his "enormous contributions in the field of statistics and
its applications."
Rao is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Science in the United States, a Fellow of the Royal Society
in the United Kingdom, and a member of the Indian National Science Academy,
the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and the Developing World Academy of
Sciences.
He has authored or co-authored 14 books -- some of which have been
translated into several languages -- and more than 300 research papers
published in scientific journals. He has supervised the doctoral research of 50
students who have, in turn, trained another 390 doctoral students
themselves. Most of his former students now are employed in universities and
other research organizations worldwide, many becoming research leaders in
their areas of specialization.
Rao earned his Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees in 1948 at Cambridge University in
England. He came to the United States in 1978 after serving as the director of
the Indian Statistical Institute, where he had held various research and
administrative positions since 1943. In 1982 he established
the Center for Multivariate Analysis at the University of Pittsburgh, where
he continues as an adjunct professor. Rao joined the Penn State faculty in 1988
as a professor and holder of the Eberly Chair in Statistics. He was named the
Eberly Professor of Statistics in 1989 and he became the Eberly
Professor Emeritus of Statistics in 2009. Among his many achievements at Penn
State, he was the founding director of the Center for Multivariate Statistics.
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