Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon (born 28.08.1928) is an Indian physicist and a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1971), and its president in 1974 — 76. He was born in Mangalore. He graduated from the Royal Institute of Science in Bombay and from the University of Bristol. In 1952 — 55 he worked at the University of Bristol. In 1955 —75 he was at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay (professor from 1960, director from 1966). From 1971 he has been secretary of the Ministry of Electronics in the Government of India.
His research has been in the field of cosmic-ray physics and elementary particle physics, in particular the detection of cosmic muon neutrinos and the search for proton decay.
A Fellow of the Royal Society (1970) and a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1982).