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Year
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Name of the Chief Guest
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1962
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Sir Ronald A. Fisher
Fellow of Royal Society, London
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1963
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Professor Arthur Linder, M. D. (Honoris Causa)
University of Geneva and Federal Technological Institute, Zurich
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1965
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Professor Arne Muntzing
Director, Institute of Genetics
University of Lund, Sweden
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1966
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Professor Friedrich Vogel
Director, Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics
Univ. of Heidelberg, West Germany
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1967
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Professor P. C. Mahalanobis, F.R.S., D. Sc., F.N.I.
Secretary, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
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1968
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Sir Harry Campion Kt., C.B., C.B.E.
Former President of the International Statistical Institute and
Director of Central Statistical Office, London.
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1970
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Professor R. L. M. Synge, F.R.S..
Nobel Laureate
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
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1973
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Professor Amartya Sen
London School of Economics, U.K.
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1974
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Professor Jerzy Neyman
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
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1975
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Professor Marc Nerlove
North-Western University
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1977
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Professor Harald Cramer
University of Stockholm, Sweden
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1978
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Shri Morarji Desai,
Hon’ble Prime Minister of India
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1979
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Professor P. V. Sukhatme
M.A.C.S. Research Institute, Pune
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1980
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Professor S. Varadarajan
Chairman and Managing Director
Indian Petrochemicals Co. Ltd. &
President, Indian Academy of Sciences
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1981
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Professor V. Ramalingaswami
Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research
and Former President of the Indian National Science Academy
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1982
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Professor J. V. Narlikar
Professor and Head, Theoretical Astrophysics Group
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
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1983
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Professor Sukhamoy Chakravarty
Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
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1984
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Professor Paul Erdos
Mathematical Institute,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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1985
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Professor Edward Nelson
Princeton University
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1985
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Professor T. W. Anderson
Stanford University
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1987
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Professor C. R. Rao, Fellow of Royal Society, London
National Professor of India and Professor of Statistics
Pennsylvania State Univ. USA
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1988
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Sir David Cox, F.R.S.,
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
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1989
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Professor Obaid Siddiqi, F.R.S.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
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1989
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Professor C. R. Rao
National Professor of India and
Professor of Statistics, Pennsylvania State Univ. USA
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1991
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Professor A. P. Mitra, F.R.S.
General Director, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and
Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Govt. of India
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1992
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Professor C.N.R. Rao, F.R.S.
Indian Institute of Science and
President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
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1993
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Professor R. Narasimha, F.R.S.
Director, National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore
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1994
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G. Ram Reddy,
Chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi
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1995
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Professor U. R. Rao
Member, Space Commission, Bangalore, India.
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1996
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Dr. R. A. Mashelakar
Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and
Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research
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1997
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C. Rangarajan
Governor, Reserve Bank of India
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1998
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Professor M. N. Venkatachaliah
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission
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1999
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Sir Walter F. Bodmer, FRCPath, FRS
Principal, Hertford College, Oxford.
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2000
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Shri K. C. Pant
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Govt. of India
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2001
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Dr. K. Kasturirangan
Chairman, Space Commission
Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation.
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2002
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Dr. Bimal Jalan
Governor, Reserve Bank of India
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2003
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R., Chidambaram
Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India and
DAE-Homi Bhabha Professor, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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2004
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Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
President of India
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2005
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Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi
The Ho’ble Governor of West Bengal
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2006
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Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh
Professor, Univ. of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
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2007
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Sir Michael Brady, FRS, F.R.Engg., FIEE
B.P. Professor of Information Engineering
University of Oxford
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2008
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Professor Mark E. Welland, FRS, F.R.Eng.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, U.K.
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2009
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Professor Mriganka Sur
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2010
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Shri M. K. Narayanan
The Governor of West Bengal
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2011
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Professor Sastry G. Pantula
North Carolina State University
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2012
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Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel Laureate
Columbia University
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2013
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Professor James A. Mirrlees
Nobel Laureate
University of Cambridge
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2014
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Shri Pranab Mukherjee
Hon’ble President of India
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2015
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Professor Eeric S. Maskin
Nobel Laureate
Harvard University
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2016
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Professor Ei-ichi Negishi
Nobel Laureate
Purdue University
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2017
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Professor Leslie Gabriel Valiant
A. M. Turing Award Winner
Harvard University
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