& Industrial Research (CSIR) (1989–1990). Menon was elected as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha during 1990–96. In 1989, then Prime Minister of India, Vishwanath Pratap Singh appointed him as the Minister of State for Science, Technology and Education. Awards and recognition He won the Abdus Salam Medal in 1996 Special Awards: He won the Padma Shri in 1961, Padma Bhushan in 1968 and Padma Vibhushan in 1985. The asteroid 7564 Gokumenon was named in his honour in late 2008. Personal Life While working towards his doctoral degree in particle physics at the University of Bristol under Professor Cecil F. Powell, Menon met and married Indumati Patel, who was working towards a degree in philosophy. They have two children, Anant K. Menon, Professor of Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and Preeti Vaid, a practicing radiologist in New Delhi. Menon has two grandchildren, Kartikeya M. Menon, a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and Ravi Vaid, who is working in corporate finance in Mumbai. References External links Article by Menon: Impact of Advances in science and new technologies on society Article on Menon Interview about India's nuclear program for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age Activists Condemn Gujarat Violence, Screen New Documentary 1928 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Indian physicists Scientists from Mangalore People from Ottapalam Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alumni of the University of Bristol Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in civil service Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in medicine Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering Janata Dal politicians Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan 21st-century Indian physicists