http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_699546%2C00040005.htm

Jayant Narlikar, Professor Emeritus and founder director of Inter
University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), has been
awarded the prestigious Prix Janssen Gold Medal for 2004 by the
Society Astronomique de France.

The eminent astronomer will receive the gold medal, the highest award
given by the French Astronomical Society, on May 4, 2004, IUCAA
sources said.

The award is alternately given to a French astronomer (in odd years)
and a foreign astronomer (even years) for significant contribution to
astronomy, they said.

The award is named after French astronomer Pierre-Jules-C sar Janssen
(1824-1907), who was the first to obtain evidence about the existence
of helium on the sun and also discovered the chromosphere, a type of
gaseous envelope surrounding the star.