Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and Physics. The purpose of the prize is to recognize outstanding Indian work (according to the view of CSIR awarding committee) in science and technology. It is the highest award for science in India.^[1] The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.^[2] It was first awarded in 1958.

Any citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years is eligible for the Prize. The Prize is awarded on the basis of contributions made through work done primarily in India during the five years preceding the year of the Prize. The Prize comprises a citation, a plaque, and a cash award of Rs. 500,000. In addition recipients also get Rs 15,000 per month up to the age of 65 years.

Nominations

Names of candidates may be proposed by a member of the governing body of CSIR, heads of universities or institutes of national importance, deans of different faculties and former awardees.

References

^ Press Trust of India (27 September 2000). "10 scientists nominated for Bhatnagar Awards". Indian Express. http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000927/ina27012.html. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
^ "From the awarding body CSIR". http://www.csir.res.in/External/Utilities/Frames/career/main_page.asp?a=topframe.htm&b=leftcon.htm&c=../../../Heads/career/awards.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-14.

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List of awardees

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science

Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1960) • M.S. Swaminathan (1961) • B.K.Bachhawat (1962) • Jagannath Ganguly (1963} • D.S. Athwal (1964) • Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965) • Hari Krishan Jain & Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966) • Tathamangam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968) • Madhu Sudan Kanungo & Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971) • Birendra Bijoy Biswas&Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972) • Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973) • J. Barnabas (1974) • Obaid Siddiqi (1975) • Guru Prakash Gutta (1976) • T.C.A. Kumar (1977) • A.N. Bhaduri (1979) • Asis Datta & Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980) • Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981) • Sunil Kumar Podder (1982) • Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983) • Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984) • Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985) • M. Gadgil (1986) • B. Bhattacharyya (1988) • M.R.S. Rao (1988) • Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989) • Samir K. Brahmachari (1990) • Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992) • Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993) • A. Bhattacharya (1994) • Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain & Kallappa Muniyappa (1995) • Ghanshyam Swarup (1996) • Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997) • Krishnaswami VijayRaghavan (1998) • Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000) • Raghavan Varadarajan & Amitabha Chattopadhyay (2002) • Satyajit Mayor (2003) • Gopal Chandra Kundu & Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004) • Tapas K. Kundu & Shekhar C. Mande (2005) • Vinod Bhakuni & Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006) • Upinder Singh Bhalla & Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007) • Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava & L.S. Shashidhara (2008) • Amitabh Joshi & Bhaskar Saha (2009) • Sanjeev Galande & Shubha Tole (2010) Amit Prakash Sharma & Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011)

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Chemical Science

Recipients	T.R. Govindachari (1960) Asima Chatterjee (1961) S.C. Bhattacharyya (1962) B.D. Tilak (1963) Sukh Dev (1964) Sadhan Basu & R.C. Mehrotra (1965) N.A. Ramaiah (1966) Santappa (1967) C.N.R. Rao (1968) A.C. Jain (1969) P.T. Narasimhan (1970) M.M. Dhar (1971) S.V. Kessar & A.P.B. Sinha (1972) M.V. George & H.B. Mathur(1973) U. R. Ghatak & K. Nagarajan(1974) D. S. Bhakuni & Animesh Chakravorty(1975) Devadas Devaprabhakara (1976) Mihir Chowdhury & S. Ranganathan(1977) Girjesh Govil & Goverdhan Mehta (1978) D. Balasubramanian & B. M. Deb (1981) C. L. Khetrapal & G. S. R. Subba Rao (1982) Samaresh Mitra & Naba Kishore Ray (1983) Paramasivan Natarajan & K. J. Rao (1984) P.Balaram (1986) Debashis Mukherjee (1987) Kaushal Kishore (1988) Srinivasan Chandrasekaran & M. K. Chaudhuri (1989) B. M. Choudary & N. Sathyamurthy (1990) Biman Bagchi & J. S. Yadav (1991) Sumit Bhaduri & Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha (1992) S. R. Gadre & T. Ramasami (1993) E. D. Jemmis & D. D. Sarma (1994) Jayaraman Chandrasekhar & K. L. Sebastian (1995) Narayanan Chandrakumar & Mariappan Periasamy (1996) Kankan Bhattacharyya & Adusumilli Srikrishna (1997) A.R. Chakravarty & K. N. Ganesh (1998) Sourav Pal (2000) Uday Maitra (2001) Murali Sastry (2002) T. K. Chakraborty (2003) Srinivasan Sampath & K George Thomas (2006) Amalendu Chandra & A Ajayghosh (2007) T. Pradeep & Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy (2008) Charusita Chakravarty & Narayanaswamy Jayaraman(2009) Swapan K Pati & Sandeep Verma (2010) Balasubramanian Sundaram & Garikapati Narahari Sastry (2011)

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences

K. Naha (1972) • M.K. Bose & K.S. Valdiya (1976) • S.K. Ghosh & K.K. Kaila (1977) • H.N. Siddiquie & B.L.K. Somayajulu (1978) • V.K. Gaur (1979) • J.G. Negi & B.K. Sahu (1980) • K. Gopalan (1982) • H.K. Gupta & S.M. Naqvi (1983) • S.K. Acharyya & S. Krishnaswami (1984) • R.N. Singh (1985) • A.K. Gupta & K. Mallick (1986) • P.S. Moharir (1987) • S.K. Tandon (1988) • P.C. Pandey (1989) • Sudipta Sengupta & Niwas Sri & Jhillu Singh Yadav (1991) • S.R. Shetye (1992) • U.C. Mohanty (1993) • J.N. Goswami (1994) • B.N. Goswami (1995) • S.W.A. Naqvi & S.S. Rai (1996) • Rengaswamy Ramesh (1998) • G.S. Bhat & S.K. Nath (2002) • Gufran-ullah Beig & Pulak Sengupta (2006) • Anil Bhardwaj (2007) • P N Vinayachandran (2008) • S.K. Sateesh (2009) • Shankar Doraiswamy (2011) •

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Engineering Science

H.N. Sethna (1960) • Man Mohan Suri (1962) • P. Brahm (1963) • Bal Raj Nijhawan (1964) • A.S. Rao (1965) • Jai Krishna (1966) • T.R.Anantharaman (1967) • K.R. Chakravorty (1968) • A. Bhattacharyya (1971) • Govind Swarup & Rajinder Pal Wadhwa (1972) • Man Mohan Sharma (1973) • Roddam Narasimha (1974) • Udipi Ramachandra Rao (1975) • Rajinder Kumar & Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman (1976) • S.N. Seshadri& Dig Vijai Singh (1978) • Palle Rama Rao (1979) • V S Arunachalam (1980) • Suhash Chandra Datta Roy (1981) • R.A. Mashelkar (1982) • K. Kasturirangan & S S Sukhatme (1983) • D.D. Bhawalkar & Paul Ratnasamy(1984) • P.R. Rao (1985) • Manohar Lal Munjal (1986) • Shrikant Lele (1987) • B D Kulkarni (1988) • S. Banerjee & G.V. Rao (1989) • S.K. Pal (1990) • J B Joshi (1991) • Vivek Shripad Borkar (1992) • Dipankar Banerjee & S.K. Bhatia (1993) • G Sundarrajan (1994) • Kamanio Chattopadhyay (1995) • Devang Vipin Khakhar (1987) • Ashok Jhunjhunwala & Anurah Sharma (1998) • Atul Chokshi & Soumitro Banerjee (2003) • S Choudhari & Vivek V Ranade (2004) • Kalyanmoy Deb (2005) • Ashish Lele & Sanjay Mittal (2006) • R Govindrajan & B.S.Murthy (2007) • Ranjan Kumar Mallik (2008) • Giridhar Madras & Jayant R Haritsa(2009) • G.K. Ananthasuresh & Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (2010) Sirshendu De & Upadrasta Ramamurty (2011)

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science

Komaravolu Chandrasekharan & C. R. Rao (1959) • K. G. Ramanathan (1965) • A.S. Gupta & C. S. Seshadri (1972) • P.C. Jain & M. S. Narasimhan (1975) • K. R. Parthasarathy & S. K. Trehan (1976) • M. S. Raghunathan (1977) • Edayyathu Mangalam Venkatarama Krishnamurthy (1978) • S. Raghavan & S. Ramanan (1979) • R. Sridharan (1980) • J. K. Ghosh (1981) • B.L. Prakasa Rao & J. B. Shukla (1982) • I.B.S. Passi & Phoolan Prasad (1983) • S.K. Malik & R. Parthasarathy (1985) • T. Parthasarathy & U. B. Tewari (1986) • Raman Parimala & T. N. Shorey (1987) • M. B. Banerjee & K. B. Sinha (1988) • Gopal Prasad (1989) • R. Balasubramanian & S. G. Dani (1990) • V. B. Mehta & Annamalai Ramanathan (1991) • Maithili Sharan (1992) • Karmeshu & Navin Madhavprasad Singhi (1993) • N. Mohan Kumar (1994) • Rajendra Bhatia (1995) • V. S. Sunder (1996) • Subhashis Nag & T. R. Ramadas (1998) • Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar (1999) • Rahul Mukerjee (2000) • Gadadhar Misra & T. N. Venkataramana (2001) • Dipendra Prasad & S. Thangavelu (2002) • Manindra Agrawal & V. Srinivas (2003) • Arup Bose & Sujatha Ramdorai (2004) • Probal Chaudhuri & K. H. Paranjape (2005) • Vikraman Balaji & Indranil Biswas (2006) • B. V. Rajarama Bhat (2007) • Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (2008) • Suresh Venapally (2009) • Mahan Mitra & Palash Kumar (2011) •

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Science

R.B. Arora (1961) • Bal Krishan Anand (1963) • N.K.Dutta & V. Ramalingaswami (1965) • J.B. Chatterjea & R.J. Vakil (1966) • A.K. Basu & M.J. Thirumalachar (1967) • S.R. Mukherjee & Uttamchand Khimchand Sheth (1968) • S. Kalyanaraman & C.R. Roy (1969) • J.R. Talwar (1970) • O.M. Gulati & A.K. Maiti (1971) • N.R. Moudgal (1976) • P.R. Adiga & T. Desiraju (1980) • U.C. Chaturvedi (1981) • Indira Nath (1983) • J.N. Sinha & B.S. Srivastava (1984) • D.K. Ganguly (1985) • S.S. Agarwal & P. Seth (1986) • M.K. Bhan (1990) • Shashi Wadhwa (1991) • U.N. Das & N.K. Mehra (1992) • G.P. Pal (1993) • K.B. Sainis & Y.D. Sharma (1994) • S.K. Panda & A.K. Tyagi (1995) • V. Ravindranath & S.K. Sarin (1996) • S.K. Gupta & Vijay Kumar (1997) • G. Balakrish Nair (1998) • Ch. Mohan Rao (1999) Sunil Pradhan (2002) • C.S. Dey (2003) • C.E. Chitnis (2004) • V.S. Sangwan (2006) • Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan (2007) • Ravinder Goswami (2008) • Santosh Gajanan Honavar (2009) • Mitali Mukerji (2010) K. Narayanaswamy Balaji (2011)

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Physical Science

K.S. Krishnan (1958) • M.G.K. Menon (1960) • G.N. Ramachandran (1961) • Vikram Sarabhai (1962) • Raja Ramanna (1963) • A.R. Verma (1964) • R.B. Ramachandra (1965) • S.C.Jain & S. Rameshan (1966) • Devendra Lal (1967) • A.P. Mitra (1968) • Asoke Nath Mitra (1969) • Vainu Bappu (1970) • P.K. Iyengar (1971) • S. Chandrasekhar & S.K. Joshi (1972) • Virendra Singh (1973) • K.P.Sinha & M.S. Sodha (1974) • K.L.Chopra & B.R. Nag (1975) • C.K. Majumdar & Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan (1976) • Jayant Narlikar & E.S.Rajagopal (1978) • A.K. Ghatak & S.S.Jha (1979) • N. Mukunda & N.S. Satyamurthy (1980) • S.M.Roy & Ramanujan Srinivasan (1981) • Girish Saran Agarwal & T.V. Ramakrishnan(1982) • S.S. Kapoor & Ramamurti Rajaraman (1983) • Ramanath Cowsik & Ranganathan Shashidhar (1984) • Narendra Kumar & K. Singh (1985) • P.K. Kaw (1986) • Vijay Kumar Kapahi & Probir Roy (1987) • Deepak Kumar & O.N. Srivastava (1988) • M.Lakshmanan & N.V.Madhusudhana (1989) • G. Baskaran & A.K. Sood (1990) • Deepak Dhar & Deepak Mathur (1991) • Vikram Kumar & S.R.Shenoy (1992) • Krishna Gopal & Rajiah Simon (1993) • A.K. Raychaudhuri & Ashoke Sen (1994) • Mustansir Barma (1995) • Thanu Padmanabhan (1996) • B.K. Chakrabarti & A.Raychaudhuri (1997) • S.R.Das & A.M. Jayannavar (1998) • Sunil Mukhi & E.V. Sampathkumaran (1999) • Sriram Ramaswamy & Varun Sahni (2000) • Rahul Pandit (2001) • Avinash Anant Deshpande & Mohit Randeria (2002) • G. Ravindra Kumar & Biswarup Mukhopadhyay (2003)• Madan Rao (2004) • Sandip Trivedi (2005) • Atish Dabholkar & Sanjay Puri (2006) • Yashwant Gupta & Pinaki Majumdar (2007) • Raghunathan Srianand & Srikanth Sastry (2008) • Rajesh Gopakumar & Abhishek Dhar (2009) • Kalobaran Maiti & Umesh Waghmare (2010) • Shiraz Minwalla (2011) •

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