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CSIR announces prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), on its foundation day Wednesday, announced the winners of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 2018.

In the Biological Sciences category, Ganesh Nagaraju from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and Thomas Pucadyil from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Pune were named as winners of the prize.

Rahul Banerjee and Swadhin Kumar Mandal of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, were the recipients of the award in the Chemical science category, a statement said.

Dr Madineni Venkat Ratnam of the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati, and Parthasarathi Chakraborty of CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, won the prize under the Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences category.

 

For Engineering Sciences, Amit Agarwal and Ashwin Anil Gumaste from IIT Bombay won the prize.

Under the Mathematical Sciences category, Amit Kumar and Nitin Saxena, from IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur respectively, won the prize.

Dr Ganesan Venkatasubramanian of NIMHANS, Bengaluru, won the award in the Medical Sciences category, while Dr Aditi Sen De from the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, and Dr Ambarish Ghosh from IISc, Bengaluru, won the award under the Physical Sciences category.

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First Published: Sep 26 2018 | 11:30 PM IST

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