page_title: Narinder Kumar Gupta
section_title: Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Narinder Kumar Gupta / Honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Receiving Padam Shri Award from President of India ( Shri R. Venkataraman)
context_page_description: Narinder Kumar Gupta, known as Prof. N. K. Gupta or Narinder Gupta born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, is Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading. His researches stimulate the development of constitutive behaviour of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design for crashworthiness of road and air vehicles, design for safety in defence applications and in design of metal forming processes.
context_section_description: Gupta was conferred Padma Shri by the President of India in 1991.
  Professor Gupta is recipient of J.C. Bose Memorial Award, the O. P. Bhasin Award, the Millenium Plaques of Honour (ISCA) Award, the Erskine (New Zealand) Award, the Alexander von Humboldt (Germany) Research Award and several other honours and awards. He has been conferred Doctor Honoris Causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences and Mercator Professorship of DFG.
  Gupta is Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian National  Academy of Engineering,  National Academy of Sciences, India and  the Third World Academy of Sciences.
  The esteem that Gupta enjoys nationally and internationally is shown by the fact that conferences to honour his contributions were held on his 60th and 70th birthday in India in 2002 and 2012, On his 65th birthday  in Bochum, Germany, in 2007, and was honoured on 70th in Singapore in 2012. Special issues of the International Journal of Impact Engineering, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy and Defence Science Journal were devoted to his birthdays. These issues received contributions from highly regarded international scientists. A special issue to honour his contributions has been published by the International Journal of Impact Engineering,  in 2017.
  Gupta has been named as one of five Honorary Members - honoured as one of the top five world scientists in the area of impact mechanics - by the International Society of Impact Engineering.
  In 2019 Prof. Gupta is awarded prestigious "DRDO Excellence Award"
caption: Receiving Padam Shri Award from President of India ( Shri R. Venkataraman)
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