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10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

Updated - September 27, 2017 12:19 am IST - New Delhi

President Ram Nath Kovind speaks at a CSIR event in New Delhi on September 26, 2017.

President Ram Nath Kovind speaks at a CSIR event in New Delhi on September 26, 2017.

Ten scientists were announced winners of the annual Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, India’s highest science award, at a function presided over by President Ram Nath Kovind here.

The winners this year for the Biological Sciences are Deepak Nair at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, and Sanjeev Das, National Institute of Immunology, Delhi; Chemical Sciences, Naresh Patwari, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Earth Sciences, Suresh Babu, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; Engineering Services, Aloke Paul and Neelesh Mehta, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Medical Sciences, Amit Dutt, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, and Deepak Gaur, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Physical Sciences, Nissim Kanekar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, and Vinay Gupta, National Physical Laboratory, Delhi.

There were no awards this year for the mathematical sciences and, for the second year running, no women recipients. Every year 8-10 scientists, below 45, are selected across institutions by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and awarded for outstanding scientific work in the last five years. Since 2013 however, only two women have been awarded.

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