Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize awarded to 11 young scientists
26 Sep 2012
Eleven young scientists have been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, India's top honours in the field of science and technology, for 2012.
The prizes in the field of biological sciences have gone to Shantanu Chowdhury of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology and Suman Kumar Dhar of the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Govindsamy Mugesh of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) and Gangadhar J Sanjayan of the CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, won the prizes in the area of chemical sciences.
The prizes in the engineering sciences category have gone to Ravishankar Narayanan of Indian Institute of Science and Y Shanthi Pavan of the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras).
The prizes in the field of mathematical sciences have gone to Siva Ramachandran Athreya and Debashish Goswami, both from the Indian Statistical Institute.
The prize in the medical sciences category has gone to Sandip Basu of the Radiation Medicine Centre at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
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