Rao : An Eminent Statistician" By Bibhuprasad Mohapatra. Govt. of Odisha. External links C. R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, India Prof. Rao's page at Penn State Prof. Rao's page at the University at Buffalo ET Interviews: Professor C. R. Rao on the Econometric Theory page. Royal Society citation 1967 Rao was awarded the Samuel S. Wilks Award in 1989 For the Cramér–Rao inequality and the Rao–Blackwell theorem see the relevant entries on Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics For Rao contribution to information geometry Cramer-Rao Lower Bound and Information Geometry Photograph of Rao with Harald Cramér in 1978 C. R. Rao from the PORTRAITS OF STATISTICIANS President George Bush awarding Rao the National Medal of Science 1920 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 20th-century American mathematicians Andhra University alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Royal Society 21st-century Indian mathematicians Indian statisticians Telugu people Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Pennsylvania State University faculty American people of Telugu descent People from Bellary district Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Presidents of the International Statistical Institute Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering University at Buffalo faculty University of Calcutta alumni Indian Statistical Institute alumni Academic staff of the Indian Statistical Institute Scientists from Andhra Pradesh American academics of Indian descent Fellows of the Econometric Society Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science American centenarians Indian centenarians Men centenarians People from Andhra Pradesh Probability theorists Detection and estimation theorists 21st-century American mathematicians Indian emigrants to the United States American expatriates in the United Kingdom Mathematical statisticians