Ram Cowsik

Affiliations & Honors

• National Academy of Sciences, USA (2004)
• Fellow: Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences-India, TWAS-The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
• Vikram Sarabhai Award for the Space Sciences
• S. S. Bhatnagar Award for Physics
• NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award
• President’s Medal – 4th Highest Civilian Award in India [Padma Shri]
• Sir C. V. Raman Memorial Lecture Award
• Physics Prize, TWAS-The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (Trieste, Italy)
• Honorary Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Professional History

• Distinguished Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
• Distinguished Professor and Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
• James S. McDonnell Professor of Space Sciences
• Director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences

Papers of the Century

Cowsik’s paper describing the role of neutrinos and other weakly interacting particles in cosmology as dark matter, thence deriving strict bounds on their masses, was chosen by the American Physical Society in its heritage collection of 1000 seminal papers.