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{{Short description|Indian physical chemist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Kalya Jagannath Rao
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1940|12|7}}
| birth_place = [[Kalya]], [[Karnataka]], India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Nanomaterials]], [[Ceramics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National College, Bangalore]] | [[National Aerospace Laboratories]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[University of Mysore]] | [[IIT Kanpur]] | [[Purdue University]] | [[Case Western Reserve University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist| [[C. N. R. Rao]] | C. A. Angell | A. R. Cooper }}
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| known_for = Studies on Nanomaterials, Amorphous Materials, Ceramics
| awards = {{ublist | 1984 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 1993 [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science|IACS]] S. R. Palit Award | 1995 MRSI Materials Science Medal | 1999 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Prize for Materials Science | 2000 [[Indian Institute of Science|IISc]] Alumni Research Award | 2000 [[University of Bordeaux 1|UoB1]] Gold Medal for Research | 2001 [[Chemical Research Society of India|CRSI]] Silver Medal | 2002 MRSI Distinguished Materials Scientist | 2005 [[International Symposium on Circuits and Systems|ISCAS]] Life Time Achievement Award | 2006 [[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]] | 2007 Sir M. Visweswaraiah Award }}
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'''Kalya Jagannath Rao''' (born 7 December 1940), popularly known as '''K. J. Rao''', is an Indian physical chemist and an Emeritus professor at the [[Indian Institute of Science]].<ref name="Honorary and Emeritus Faculty">{{Cite web |url=http://sscu.iisc.ac.in/unit-faculty/ |title=Honorary and Emeritus Faculty |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-date=22 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122160623/http://sscu.iisc.ac.in/unit-faculty/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is known for his researches on nanomaterials, amorphous Materials and ceramics<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=5 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2016 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and is an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]],<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N86-0944 |title=Indian fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-date=3 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103004813/http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N86-0944 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[National Academy of Sciences, India]],<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://nasi.nic.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=R |title=NASI fellows |date=2016 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences India}}</ref> International Academy of Ceramics, Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and World Innovation Foundation and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Rao,_Prof._Kalya_Jagannatha |title=Fellow profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1984, for his contributions to chemical sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the [[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]] of the Government of France.<ref name="Prestigious French award for Indian scientist">{{Cite web |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/74106/prestigious-french-award-indian-scientist.html |title=Prestigious French award for Indian scientist |date=8 June 2010 |publisher=Deccan Herlad}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:Crawford Hall, University of Mysore.jpg|thumb|235px|University of Mysore]]
Jagannatha Rao, born on 7 December 1940 to Kalya Ananthamurthy and Nagamma at Kalya, a village in the south Indian state of [[Karnataka]], passed BSc hons in 1960 from the [[University of Mysore]] and followed it up with MSc in physical chemistry from the same university in 1961.<ref name="Prof. K.J. Rao - Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://sscu.iisc.ernet.in/k_j_rao.html |title=Prof. K.J. Rao - Faculty profile |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229222814/http://sscu.iisc.ernet.in/k_j_rao.html |archive-date=29 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The same year, he joined [[National College, Bangalore]] as a lecturer at their chemistry department and worked there until 1964 before enrolling at [[IIT Kanpur]] for his doctoral studies under the guidance of renowned chemist, [[C. N. R. Rao]], a [[Bharat Ratna]] laureate. He secured a PhD in 1967 and continued his post-doctoral studies under the same mentor until 1972. Moving to the US, he also worked under C. A. Angell at [[Purdue University]] and with A. R. Cooper at [[Case Western Reserve University]]. Returning to India in 1972, he joined [[National Aerospace Laboratories]] where he worked until 1978 when he became associated with the [[Indian Institute of Science]] as a professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit. He worked at the Unit until his superannuation and post-retirement, serves as an Emeritus professor and Ramanna Senior fellow there.<ref name="Honorary and Emeritus Faculty" />

Rao is married to Sudha and the couple has a child Named As Kalya Vijaya Sarathy. The family lives in [[Bengaluru]].

== Legacy ==
Rao has been a part of several research groups; he collaborated with V. C. Veeranna Gowda and C. Narayana Reddy of [[Bangalore University]] for his studies of glasses and ceramics, with S. A. Shivashankar of Indian Institute of Science for studies of zinc oxide [[nanostructures]] and with A. Naik of [[Kuvempu University]] for investigating [[nanomaterials]].<ref name="Glasses and advanced ceramics">{{Cite web |url=http://sscu.iisc.ac.in/faculty/prof-k-j-rao/ |title=Glasses and advanced ceramics |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Institute of Science }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> His researches on ceramics and glasses are reported to have returned a new structural model for ionic glasses and a model for glass transition.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=5 October 2016 | pages=34 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He discovered energy efficient protocols for the preparation of many advanced ceramics.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He has released his researches as four books which include ''Structural Chemistry of Glasses'', a comprehensive text on glasses<ref name="Structural Chemistry of Glasses">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xk-lYXtqM-4C&q=K+J+Rao |title=Structural Chemistry of Glasses |last=Rao |first=K. J. |publisher=Elsevier |year=2002 |isbn=9780080439587 |page=562}}</ref> and ''Current Trends in the Science and Technology of Glass''<ref name="Current Trends in the Science and Technology of Glass">{{cite book|author1=H Jain|author2=A R Cooper|author3=K J Rao, D Chakravorty|title=Current Trends in the Science and Technology of Glass: Proceedings of the Indo–US Workshop|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2AGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA157|date=1 September 1989|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4663-28-1|pages=157–}}</ref> as well as 290 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Rao=3AKalya_Jagannatha=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2016 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref><ref name="Kalya Jagannatha Rao on ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kalya_Rao |title=Kalya Jagannatha Rao on ResearchGate |date=2016 }}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} His work has been cited by many authors{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Citations'' section}} and he has mentored 24 doctoral and one post graduate student in their studies. He served as the chair of the Materials Research Centre of IISc during 1984–91 and headed the Division of Chemical Sciences from 1992 to 1997. He is one of the founders of the Indo-French Laboratory for Solid State Chemistry (IFLaSC) at IISc which would later earn him a French state honor.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

== Awards and honors ==
The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded Rao the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1984.<ref name="Chemical Sciences">{{cite web|url=http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm |title=Chemical Sciences |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |date=2016 |access-date=7 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912012851/http://www.csir.res.in/external/heads/career/award/BPRIZE/CHEMICAL_SCIENCES.htm |archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref> He received the S. R. Palt Award of the [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] in 1993 and the Material Science Award of the Material Science Society of India (MRSI) in 1995; MRSI would honor him again in 2002 with the Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year award.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> The Indian National Science Academy awarded him the Materials Science Prize in 1999 and he received two awards in 2000, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Research of the Indian Institute of Science and the gold medal for Research of the [[University of Bordeaux I]].<ref name="Rao Bio Data">{{Cite web |url=http://sscu.iisc.ernet.in/office-forms-15-09-09/kjrbiodat.doc |title=Rao Bio Data |date=2016 |publisher=IISc |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122220830/http://sscu.iisc.ernet.in/office-forms-15-09-09/kjrbiodat.doc |archive-date=22 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Silver Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India reached him in 2002<ref name="Awards: Year - 2002">{{Cite web |url=http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |title=Awards: Year - 2002 |date=2016 |publisher=Chemical Research Society of India |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016123938/http://www.crsi.org.in/index.php/crsi-awards/year-1999-2008 |archive-date=16 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award and Gold Medal of [[International Symposium on Circuits and Systems]] in 2005. He is a recipient of two state honors; the [[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]] of the Government of France (2006)<ref name="Prestigious French award for Indian scientist" /> and Sir M. Visweswaraiah Award of the Government of Karnataka (2007).<ref name="N. Rudraiah, KJ Rao chosen for Sir M. Visvesvaraya Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/N.-Rudraiah-K.J.-Rao-chosen-for-Sir-M.-Visvesvaraya-Award/article15251459.ece |title=N. Rudraiah, KJ Rao chosen for Sir M. Visvesvaraya Award |date=30 Jun 2008 |work=The Hindu}}</ref> He is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences,<ref name="Fellow profile" /> National Academy of Sciences, India<ref name="NASI fellows" /> and a fellow of the International Academy of Ceramics, Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and World Innovation Foundation. He is also a recipient of honorary doctorates from the Indian Institute of Science (1988) and the [[University of Bordeaux 1]] (2000).<ref name="Indian fellow" />

== Citations ==
* {{cite book|author1=C. N. R. Rao|author2=Kanishka Biswas|title=Essentials of Inorganic Materials Synthesis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOl8CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|date=20 April 2015|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-1-118-89268-8|pages=55–}}
* {{cite book|author=M. Z. A. Munshi|title=Handbook of Solid State Batteries & Capacitors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjG7cjAPDQEC&pg=PA205|year=1995|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-1794-5|pages=205–}}
* {{cite book|author1=Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao|author2=S. K. Joshi|author3=R. A. Mashelkar|title=Solid State Chemistry: Selected Papers of C.N.R. Rao|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zJqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA214|year=1995|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-1808-9|pages=214–}}
* {{cite book|author=Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao|title=Trends in Chemistry of Materials: Selected Research Papers of C.N.R. Rao|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJppDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA129|year=2008|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-283-383-9|pages=129–}}

== Selected bibliography ==

=== Books ===
* {{Cite book |title=Structural Chemistry of Glasses |last=Rao |first=K. J. |publisher=Elsevier |year=2002 |isbn=9780080439587 |page=562}}
* {{cite book|author1=H Jain|author2=A R Cooper|author3=K J Rao, D Chakravorty|title=Current Trends in the Science and Technology of Glass: Proceedings of the Indo–US Workshop|date=1 September 1989|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4663-28-1|pages=157–}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |author1=Rao, K. J. |author2=Kumar, Sundeep |title=Multialkali phosphate glasses: a new window to understand the mechanism of ion transport |journal=Current Science |date=2003 |volume=85 |issue=7 |pages=945–955 |issn=0011-3891}}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Kumar, Sundeep |author2=Vinatier, Philippe |author3=Levasseur, Alain |author4=Rao, K. J. |title=Investigations of structure and transport in lithium and silver borophosphate glasses |journal=Journal of Solid State Chemistry |date=2004 |volume=177 |issue=4–5 |pages=1723–1737 |doi=10.1016/j.jssc.2003.12.034|bibcode=2004JSSCh.177.1723K }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Rao, K. J. |author2=Mahesh, Krishnamurthy |author3=Kumar, Sundeep |title=A strategic approach for preparation of oxide nanomaterials |journal=Bulletin of Materials Science |date=2005 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=19–24 |doi=10.1007/BF02711166 |s2cid=17231730 |issn=0250-4707|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Rao, K. J. |author2=Pecquenard, B. |author3=Gies, A. |author4=Levasseur, A. |author5=Etourneau, J. |title=Structural and electrochemical behaviour of sputtered vanadium oxide films: oxygen non-stoichiometry and lithium ion sequestration |journal=Bulletin of Materials Science |date=2006 |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=535–546 |doi=10.1007/BF02914086 |s2cid=41539504 |issn= 0250-4707|doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Veeranna Gowda, V. C. |author2=Narayana Reddy, C. |author3=Radha, K. C. |author4=Anavekar, R. V. |author5=Etourneau, J. |author6=Rao, K. J. |title=Structural investigations of sodium diborate glasses containing PbO, Bi2O3 and TeO2: elastic property measurements and spectroscopic studies |journal=Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids |date=2007 |volume=353 |issue=11–12 |pages=1150–1163 |doi=10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2006.12.117|bibcode=2007JNCS..353.1150V |url=http://eprints-bangaloreuniversity.in/7055/1/phy.pdf }}

== See also ==
* [[C. N. R. Rao]]
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