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awarded once every two years to "honour exceptional contributions to Astronomy and Astrophysics by young scientists anywhere in the world." Previous award winners include:
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were Vice Presidents. However the organisation faded to obscurity following the departure from India of one of the principal members, Herbert Gerard Tomkins.
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being the founder President of the Society, and as of 2010 has a membership of approximately 1000. Its registered office is at the Astronomy Department,
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The Society also runs two prestigious lectures: the Modali Endowment Lecture and the R. C. Gupta Endowment Lecture.
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and a net 47 added during the first session). The society was run along similar lines to the
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and other professionals from related disciplines. It was founded in 1972, with
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The Society makes a series of awards, the most prestigious of which is the
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A previous organisation of the same name existed between July 1910 and
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Awards and Endowments instituted by the Astronomical Society of India
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1922. It was founded to promote astronomy following an appearance of
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Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences
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Learned society in India, of professional astronomers
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astronomers
Vainu Bappu
Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
Dipankar Banerjee
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences
Nainital
George Efstathiou
Shrinivas Kulkarni
D. J. Saikia
Sarbani Basu
Alycia J. Weinberger
Brian P. Schmidt
Ray Jayawardhana
Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
Nissim Kanekar
Marta Burgay
Halley’s Comet
British Astronomical Association
meteors
Moon
variable stars
Calcutta
Barrackpore
Sidney Gerald Burrard
John Evershed
Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
Akash Mitra Mandal
List of astronomical societies

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