B.V. Subbarayappa

B.V. Subbarayappa (MSc, PhD), a chemist turned historian and philosopher of science, was the elected president (1998-2001) of the History of Science division of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (under ICSU, Paris)—the first non-westerner to be elected. He is the recipient of the Copernicus Medal from the Polish Academy of Sciences (1973) and has received the Karnataka State Award (2008). He has also been awarded by the National Academy of Sciences, India, of which he is an elected Fellow, and has an Honorary Doctorate (1999) from the University of Bologna. He is the author/editor of twenty books and over a hundred papers on the history of Indian science, science and society, and related themes.