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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology was instituted in the year 1957, in the memory of late Dr (Sir) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, FRS, the founder director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). The SSB Prize is awarded each year on the basis of conspicuously important and outstanding contributions to human knowledge and progress, made through work done primarily in India during the five years, preceding the year of the prize.
Any citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years is eligible to be nominated. Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) working in India are also eligible.
The SSB Prize, comprising a citation, a cash award of Rupees five lakh and a plaque, is given to each person selected for the award in the following disciplines:
Biological Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
Mathematical Sciences
Medical Sciences
Physical Sciences
Engineering Sciences
The recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology are:
Biological Sciences | |
Dr Ashwani Kumar Molecular Mycobacteriology Laboratory CSIR-Instituteof Microbial Technology Chandigarh – 160036 ashwanik@imtech.res.in |
Dr Maddika Subba Reddy Laboratory of Cell Death and Cell Survival Centre for DNA Fingerprinting Diagnostics Hyderabad – 500039 msreddy@cdfd.org.in |
Chemical Sciences | |
Dr Akkattu T Biju |
Dr Debabrata Maiti |
Earth, Atmosphere, Oceanand Planetary Sciences | |
Dr Vimal Mishra |
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Engineering Sciences | |
Dr Dipti Ranjan Sahoo Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi – 110016 drsahoo@civil.iitd.ac.in |
Dr Rajnish Kumar Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai – 600036 rajnish.ncl@gmail.com |
Mathematical Sciences | |
Dr Apoorva Khare Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru – 560012 khare@iisc.ac.in |
Dr Neeraj Kayal Department of Mathematics and Computing Microsoft Research Lab India Bengaluru – 560001 neeraka@microsoft.com |
Medical Sciences | |
Dr Dipyaman Ganguli Translational Research Unit CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Kolkata – 700032 dipyaman@iicb.res.in |
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Physical Sciences | |
Dr Anindya Das Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru – 560012 anindya@iisc.ac.in |
Dr Basudeb Dasgupta Department of Theoretical Physics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai – 400005 bdasgupta@theory.tifr.res.in |