Nominations are invited for ASI awards for the year 2024. The last date to receive nominations for these awards has been extended upto 25th Nov 2025.
An age relaxation for upper age limit for women candidates is introduced for the following two awards.
i. Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal - 3 yrs
ii. Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award - 2 yrs.
The nominations will be received through online forms available on ASI website, the links to these forms are available on the respective award page given below. We request you to widely circulate the information about the awards. Nominators are requested to go through the guidelines given in the Awards page before filling out the nomination form.
The details of these awards are given below.
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1) ASI Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement award
Please find more information from the link.
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2) Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal
Please find more information from the link.
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3) Justice Oak award for the outstanding thesis in astronomy
Please find more information from the link.
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4) Laxminarayana & Nagalaxmi Modali Award
Please find more information from the link.
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5) ASI Zubin Kembhavi Award
For the year 2024 award will be given for work done in "Public Outreach and Education in Astronomy and allied fields".
Please find more information from the link.
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6) ASI AstroSat Prize
Please find more information from the link.
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7) Young Astronomer Award for the Best Publication
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8) New Discovery Award
Please find more information from the link.
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The list of all awards can be found from the link.