Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology was instituted in the year 1957, in the memory of late Dr (Sir) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, FRS, the founder-director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). The SSB Prize is awarded each year on the basis of conspicuously important and outstanding contributions to human knowledge and progress, made through work done primarily in India during the five years, preceding the year of the prize.
Any citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years is eligible to be nominated. Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) working in India are also eligible. The SSB Prize, comprising a citation, a cash award of Rupees five lakh and a plaque, is given to each person selected for the award in the following disciplines:
• Biological Sciences
• Chemical Sciences
• Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
• Mathematical Sciences
• Medical Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• Engineering Sciences
The recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology are:
Biological Sciences
| Dr Subhadeep Chatterjee Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics Hyderabad 500 039 subhadeep@cdfd.org.in |
Dr Vatsala Thirumalai Neural Circuits and Development Laboratory National Centre for Biological Sciences Bengaluru 560 065 vatsala@ncbs.res.in |
Chemical Sciences
| Dr Jyotirmayee Dash School of Chemical Sciences Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata 700 032 ocjd@iacs.res.in |
Dr Subi Jacob George New Chemistry Unit Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru 560 064 george@jncasr.ac.in |
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
| Dr Abhijit Mukherjee Department of Geology and Geophysics Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur 721 302 abhijit@gg.iitkgp.ernet.in |
Dr Suryendu Dutta Department of Earth Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai 400 076 s.dutta@iitb.ac.in |
Engineering Sciences
| Dr Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni Chemical Engineering and Process Development CSIR National Chemical Laboratory Pune 411 008 aa.kulkarni@ncl.res.in |
Dr Kinshuk Dasgupta Materials Group Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai 400 085 kdg@barc.gov.in |
Mathematical Sciences
| Dr Rajat Subhra Hazra Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700 108 rshazra@isical.ac.in |
Dr U K Anandavardhanan Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai 400 076 anand@math.iitb.ac.in |
Medical Sciences
| Dr Bushra Ateeq Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur 208 016 bushra@iitk.ac.in |
Dr Ritesh Agarwal Department of Pulmonary Medicine Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160 012 agarwal.ritesh@outlook.in |
Physical Sciences
| Dr Rajesh Ganapathy International Centre for Materials Science Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bengaluru 560 064 rajeshg@jncasr.ac.in |
Dr Surajit Dhara School of Physics University of Hyderabad Hyderabad 500 046 sdsp@uohyd.ernet.in |
