Academic Recognition
Obaid Siddiqi’s contributions have been widely recognized. He has been elected to the principal National Academies in India, and is a former president of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Society, London, the US National Academy of Sciences, Washington, and the Third World Academy, Trieste. Siddiqi has held visiting professorships at Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The California Institute of Technology and Cambridge University. He was twice Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University, Jamia Hamdard, Kalyani University, IIT Bombay, Jamia Milia, and Central University of Hyrderabad have conferred upon him the honorary degree of D. Sc. He has received many prizes and awards, including the civilian honors Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan.
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