Three IISc professors awarded "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2013"

Sunday, October 06, 2013    

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize is the most coveted national recognition for young scientists and engineers for their research and development work in India. The prize was instituted in 1957 in honour of late Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, an eminent scientist, founder Director and principal architect of CSIR. 

More than 450 scientists and technologists have been so far conferred with the prize in various disciplines of science. Each prize carries a citation, cash prize, a plaque and an honorarium till superannuation. The awards will be presented by the Prime Minister on a date to be announced.

The winners from IISc are:

Biological Science
Dr. Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan,
Department of Biochemistry,
IISc.

Engineering Science
Dr. Bikramjit Basu,
Materials Research Centre, 

Physical Science
Dr. Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy,
Department of Physics.

Other winners are 

Chemical Science
Dr. Yamuna Krishnan of NCBS,

Engineering Sciences
Dr. Suman Chakraborty of IIT( Kharagpur)

Mathematical Sciences
Dr. Eknath Prabhakar Ghate of School of Mathematical Sciences, TIFR-Mumbai

Medical Sciences
Dr. Pushkar Sharma, NII

Physical Sciences