7 IITs, IISc faculty members win Shanti Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2022
Ayushi Bisht | September 11, 2023 | 07:03 PM IST | 1 min read
Dharmendra Pradhan congratulated the faculty members of IISC Banglore, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT Madras, honoured with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
NEW DELHI: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards today, September 11. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award is distributed to 12 young scientists across the country. This comes amid a row over government's plans to prune National Science Awards.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan congratulated the faculty members of IISC Banglore, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT Madras who have been honoured with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science & Technology 2022.
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The award is a testament of their outstanding contributions towards furthering human knowledge and progress as well as excellence in the field of applied research. The award is given every year to scientists under the age of 45 years.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards for 2022: List of awardees
Biology
Ashwani Kumar, CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh (Biology)
M Maddika Subba Reddy, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad
Chemistry
Akkattu Biju, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Debabrta Maiti, IIT Bombay
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
Vimal Mishra, IIT Gandhinagar
Engineering
Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, IIT Delhi
Rajnish Kumar, IIT Madras
Mathematics
Apoorva Khare, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Neeraj Kayal, Microsoft Research Lab, India
Medicine
Dipyaman Ganguli, CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
Physics
Anindya Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Basudeb Dasgupta, TIFR Mumbai
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