Hosmane, Narayan S.

Narayan S. Hosmane (born 30 June 1948) is an Indian-born cancer research scientist and a distinguished research professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He was featured in NRI Achievers magazine. He is a two-time recipient of the Humboldt Research Award for senior scientists, an annual award presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, to scientists worldwide in recognition of their career accomplishments. He founded "Boron in the Americas" (formerly known as BUSA) and hosted the organization's first meeting in Dallas in April 1988. He has published over 300 papers in scientific journals and was ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in the top 50% of the most cited chemists in the world from 1981–1997. In September 2007, the NRI Institute presented him with its Pride of India Gold Award at the launch of the NRI Institute’s Washington D.C. chapter. In January, he was honored by the same institute with its Lifetime Achievement Pravasi Award and Bharath Samman Medal during the Annual Conference held in New Delhi. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute of Chemists, a foreign member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), and listed in Who's Who in the World.