Om Prakash Bhasin Award

Om Prakash Bhasin Award
Awarded for Research in science in India
Location India
Presented by Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
First awarded 1985
Official website Om Prakash Bhasin Award website

Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology.[1] The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of INR 100,000.[1][2] The winners are invited to deliver the Om Prakash Bhasin Memorial Lecture at a venue decided by the award committee.[2]

Profile

Om Prakash Bhasin Awards have been instituted by Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation, a New Delhi based charitable organization[1] founded by Vinod Bhasin, along with her two sons, Shivy Bhasin ad Hemant Kumar Bhasin, to honour the memory of her husband, Om Prakash Bhasin, a non resident Indian businessman.[3] The corpus for the award of INR 5,100,000 was formed by Om Prakash Bhasin as a trust before his death.[3] The awards, started in 1985, are given in five categories. The selection is through a notified procedure and is decided by a committee appointed for the purpose.[1] The committee includes the Chairman of the foundation, two trustees representing the foundation, a member of the scientific community and a representative of the State Bank of India, the bankers to the foundation. The incumbent committee members are:[3]

Categories

  • Agriculture and Allied Sciences[4]
  • Biotechnology[5]
  • Electronics and Information Technology[6]
  • Engineering including Energy and Aerospace[7]
  • Health and Medical Sciences[8]

Recipients

Agriculture and Allied Sciences

Year Name
1985 B. P. Pal
1986 H. K. Jain
1987 V. L. Chopra
1988 G. S. Venkitaraman
1988 S. K. Sinha
1989 S. S. Parihar
1989 T. N. Khoshoo
1990 Prem Narain
1991 Rajendra Singh Paroda
1991 Y. L. Nene
1992 Anupam Verma
1992 Krishna Lal Chadha
1993 M. R. Sethuraj
1993 R. B. Sawhney
1994 S. N. Dwivedi
1994 E. A. Siddiq
1995 M. S. Swaminathan
1996 A. N. Purohit
1997 S. L. Mehta
1997 H. Sekhar Shetty
1998 A. Seetharam
1999 R. P. Sharma
2000 Sushil Kumar
2001 S. Nagarajan
2002-2003 Motilal Madan
2006-2007 Baldev Singh Dhillon
2008-2009 Deepak Pental
2010-2011 Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi
2012 Vijay Pal Singh

Biotechnology

Year Name
1985 G. Padmanabhan
1986 K. K. G. Menon
1986 H. Y. Mohan Ram
1988 V. Jagannathan
1989 V. Sasisekharan
1989 Sipra Guha-Mukherji
1990 Indira Nath
1990 Jyotimoy Das
1991 S. Ramachandran
1992 A. K. Sharma
1993 Avadesha Surolia
1993 Obaid Siddiqui
1994 C. R. Bhatia
1994 H. K. Das
1995 Asis Dutta
1995 Brahm S. Shrivastava
1996 P. K. Mehta
1996 Lalji Singh
1997 S. K. Basu
1997 D. Balasubramanian
1998 Manju Sharma
1999 C. M. Gupta
2000 M. Vijayan
2001 Partha P. Majumder
2002-03 Virander Singh Chauhan
2002-03 M. R. S. Rao
2004-05 Seyed E. Hasnain
2004-05 J. Gowrishankar
2008-09 Samir K. Brahmachari
2010-11 Kanury V. S. Rao
2012 Navin Khanna

Electronics and Information Technology

Year Name
1985 M. G. K. Menon
1986 P. V. S. Rao
1987 A. P. Mitra
1988 Narasimhan
1989 N. Seshagiri
1990 S. Ramani
1993 Sam Pitroda
1993 V. Rajaraman
1994 G. M. Cleetus
1994 Surender Prasad
1995 B. L. Deekshatulu
1995 Neelakanthan
1996 Sudhansu Datta Majumdar
1997 Surendra Pal
1998 Shankar K. Pal
1999 K. G. Narayanan
2000 Vijay P. Bhatkar
2001 Lalit Mohan Patnaik
2002-03 Amitava Sen Gupta
2004-05 Ashok Jhunjhunwala
2006-07 V. Narayana Rao
2008-09 Shiban Kishen Koul
2011 Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
2013 Bishnu P. Pal

Engineering including Energy and Aerospace

Year Name
1985 Raja Ramanna
1985 M. M. Sharma
1985 Satish Dhawan
1985 S. Roy Choudhary
1986 Narla Tata Rao
1986 S. Varadarajan
1986 L. K. Doraiswami
1986 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1987 A. K. N. Reddy
1987 S. C. Dutta Roy
1987 R. M. Vasagam
1987 George Joseph
1988 P. R. Roy
1988 R. K. Bhandari
1988 K. Kasturirangan
1989 V. S. Arunachalam
1989 K. L. Chopra
1989 J. C. Bhattacharya
1989 P. Banerji
1990 N. B. Prasad
1990 Keki Hormusji Gharda
1990 R. A. Mashelkar
1990 M. A. Ramaswamy
1991 Rajinder Kumar
1991 T. K. Bose
1992 M. S. Vasudeva
1992 Paul Ratnasamy
1992 P. Ramachandran
1992 R. Balakrishnan
1993 P. Rama Rao
1993 Udupi Ramachandra Rao
1994 H. S. Mukunda
1994 A. V. Rama Rao
1994 K. K. Mahajan
1995 Jyoti Parikh
1995 S. Sivaram
1995 G. Madhavan Nair
1995 Prem Shanker Goel
1996 M. R. Srinivasan
1996 T. S. R. Prasada Rao
1996 C. G. Krishnadas Nair
1997 K. S. Narasimhan
1997 K. N. Shankara
1998 Patcha Ramachandra Rao
1999 Placid Rodrigues
2000 Thirumalachari Ramasami
2001 Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
2002-03 E. Sreedharan
2004-05 Prem Chand Pandey
2006-07 Kota Harinarayana
2008-09 Narinder Kumar Gupta
2011 Baldev Raj
2013 G. Sundararajan

Health and Medical Sciences

Year Name
1985 Vinod Prakash Sharma
1985 P. K. Rajagopalan
1985 M. S. Valiathan
1986 Prakash Narain Tandon
1987 M. G. Deo
1987 A. N. Malaviya
1987 B. N. Dhawan
1988 J. S. Guleria
1989 Madan Mohan
1989 U. C. Chaturvedi
1990 Fali S. Mehta
1991 S. K. Kacker
1992 Asha Mathur
1993 V. Ramalingaswami
1993 V. I. Mathan
1994 Kalyan Banerji
1995 Ved Prakash Kamboj
1995 N. K. Ganguly
1996 Sneh Bhargava
1997 Gourie Devi
1998 Geeta Talukder
1998 Narinder K. Mehra
1999 Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
2000 A. S. Paintal
2001 Pradeep Seth
2002 Shiv Kumar Sarin
2003 Jitendra Nath Pande
2004 Viswa Mohan Katoch
2005 Girish Sahni

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 National cademy of Sciences, India (October 2014). "Om Praksh Bhasin Foundation". Springer 37 (5): 483–486. doi:10.1007/s40009-014-0281-0.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "OPBF Award". OPBF. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "OPBF profile". OPBF. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Agriculture". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Biotechnology". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ "E and IT". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Engineering". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Medicine". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.