Dr. Samir
K. Bramhachari, Director General Council for
Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) today announced the prestigious Shantri Swarup Bhatnagar Awards for the Year 2013. The awards were
announced during the CSIR’s 71st Foundation day Celebrations held
here in New Delhi. According to it, eight (08) scientists
have been selected for Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for the
year 2013. They are as under:
Biological Science
Dr
Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan
Department
of Biochemistry
Indian
Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore
560 012
Chemcial Sciences
Dr
Yamuna Krishnan
National
Centre for Biological Sciences
(TIFR)
UAS-GKVK, Bellary Road
Bangalore
560 065
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences
No
Award
Engineering Sciences
Dr
Bikramjit Basu Dr
Suman Chakraborty
Materials
Research Centre Department
of Mechanical Engineering
Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) Indian
Institute of Technology (IITKgp)
Bangalore
560012 Kharagpur 721302
Mathematical Sciences
Dr
Eknath Prabhakar Ghate
School
of Mathematical Sciences
Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research
(TIFR)
Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba
Mumbai
400 005
Medical Sciences
Dr
Pushkar Sharma
National
Institute of Immunology (NII)
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110 067
Physical Sciences
Dr
Amol Dighe Dr
Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy
Department
of Theoretical Physics Department
of Physics
Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Indian
Institute of Science (IISc)
Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba Bangalore
560 012
Mumbai
400 005
These Awards will be presented by the Prime
Minister for which the date will be fixed later on.
The Shanti
SwarupBhatnagar Prize is the most coveted national recognition for
young scientists and engineers for their R&D work done in India. The Prize
was instituted in 1957 in the honour of late Dr. (Sir) Shanti
SwarupBhatnagar, an eminent scientist, founder
Director and principal architect of CSIR. Over 450 scientists and technologists
have been so far conferred upon this Prize in various disciplines of science
for their outstanding R&D contribution.
Each Prize carries a citation, cash prize, a plaque and an honorarium till
superannuation.
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