Scientific prizes and awards / General

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Description

The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), the late Dr (Sir) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and is known as the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for science and technology’.

The Prize is given each year for outstanding contributions to science and technology.

Recipients

For the year 2010, nine scientists have been selected for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Biological Sciences
1 Dr Sanjeev Galande National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
(Presently at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune)
2 Dr Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Chemical Sciences
3 Dr Swapan K Pati Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
4 Dr Sandeep Verma Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Engineering Sciences
5 Dr G K Ananthasuresh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
6 Dr Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Medical Sciences
7 Dr Mitali Mukerji Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR), Delhi

Physical Sciences
8 Dr Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
9 Dr Kalobaran Maiti Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

No Award is being given in the area of Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences and Mathematical Sciences.