The Raman Chair was instituted in 1972 by the Government of India to commemorate the memory of the founder of the Academy, Sir C. V. Raman. Eminent scientists are invited by the Council of the Academy to occupy the Chair, for periods of between six weeks and six months. Raman Professors who have occupied the Chair are:
| Period | Name | Affiliation |
| Jul. - Oct. 1974 | Prof. R. Hanbury Brown*, F.R.S. | University of Sydney (Australia) |
| Feb. - Mar. 1979 and Nov. 1979 |
Prof. Dorothy Hodgkin* | Nobel Laureate University of Oxford (UK) |
| Sep. - Dec. 1979 | Prof. N. Bloembergen | Nobel Laureate Harvard University, Cambridge (USA) |
| Dec. 1979 - Feb. 1980 | Prof. Charles Frank* | University of Bristol (UK) |
| Sep. - Dec. 1980 | Prof. K. R. Ramanathan* | Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad (India) |
| Oct. 1982 - Feb. 1983 | Prof. George W. Series* | University of Reading (UK) |
| Dec. 1982 - Feb. 1983 | Prof. G. Pontecorvo* | Imperial Cancer Research Fund London (UK) |
| Dec. 1982 - Mar. 1983 | Prof. J. B. Goodenough | University of Oxford (UK) |
| Jan. - Apr. 1986 | Prof. B. S. Blumberg | Nobel Laureate Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia (USA) |
| Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991 | Prof. John T. Bonner | Princeton University (USA) |
| Dec. 1993 - Jan. 1994 | Prof. Anatol Roshko | California Institute of Technology Pasadena (USA) |
| Nov. 1994 - Jan. 1995 | Prof. A. K. Ramdas | Purdue University West Lafayette (USA) |
| Dec. 1995 - Feb. 1996 | Prof. Sir Hermann Bondi | Churchill College Cambridge (UK) |
| Sep. - Oct. 1996 | Prof. B. I. Halperin | Harvard University Cambridge (USA) |
| Feb. - Apr. 1997 | Prof. Dan P. McKenzie | University of Cambridge (UK) |
| Dec. 1998 and Dec. 1999 |
Prof. T. N. Krishnamurti | Florida State University Tallahassee (USA) |
| Feb. - Mar. 2001 | Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot (Israel) |
| Oct. - Nov. 2001 | Prof. Albert J. Libchaber | The Rockefeller University New York (USA) |
| Jun. - Jul. 2002 | Prof. K. R. Sreenivasan | University of Maryland College Park (USA) |
| Feb. - Mar. 2003 | Prof. Philippe Nozieres | Institut Laue-Langevin Grenoble Cedex (France) |
| Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004 | Prof. Robert Williams | Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore (USA) |
| Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2005 | Prof. Abhay Ashtekar | Pennsylvania State University University Park (USA) |
| Nov. - Dec. 2005 and Oct. - Nov. 2006 |
Prof. Anne McLaren* | Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge (UK) |
| Dec. 2007 - Jan. 2008 | Prof. Sajeev John | University of Toronto Toronto (Canada) |
| Jan. - Feb. 2009 | Prof. S. R. S. Varadhan | Courant Institute, New York University New York (USA) |
| Apr. 2009 and Oct. - Nov. 2009 |
Prof. Marc Fontecave | Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble (France) |
| Jul. - Sep. 2010 | Prof. Huzihiro Araki | Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan) |
| Sep. - Oct. 2011 and Dec. 2011 |
Prof. Anthony K. Cheetham | University of Cambridge Cambridge (UK) |
| Oct. 2011 and Jan. - Feb. 2012 |
Prof. Sauro Succi | Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo Rome (Italy) |
| Feb. - Mar. 2014, Aug. - Sept. 2014 and Jan. 2015 |
Prof. Michael L. Klein | Temple University Philadelphia (USA) |
| Feb. – Mar. 2016 | Prof. T. J. Pedley | University of Cambridge Cambridge (UK) |
| Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2019 | Prof. David Baker | University of Washington Seattle, USA |
| March 2019 | Prof. Ben L Feringa | University of Groningen The Netherlands |
| Jan. 2023 | Prof. Harold E Varmus | Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (USA) |
| Dec. 2023 - Jan. 2024 | Prof. Subir Sachdev | Herschel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University (USA) |
| Nov. 2024 | Prof. Sarah Amalia Polonius-Teichmann | University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK) |
| Jan. 2025 | Prof. Aviv Regev | Genentech, USA |
| Jan. 2025 | Prof. Subir Sachdev | Herschel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University (USA) |
| Nov.– Dec. 2025 | Prof. Spyridon Artavanis-Tsakonas | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (USA) |
*Deceased
Protein–ligand data generation at scale to support machine learning
Speaker: Professor Aled Edwards, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Academy regrets to report the passing away of:
The Academy regrets to report the passing away of:
