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In 2024, the Government of India continued the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology with the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar called the Vigyan Yuva - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award. While the prize money and lifetime monthly fellowship were removed, the award’s stature has been elevated to align with India's prestigious Padma ...
Vigyan Yuva- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award Dr. Krishna Murthy S L Agricultural Science Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad 16 Vigyan Yuva- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award Dr. Swarup Kumar Parida Agricultural Science National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi 17 Vigyan Yuva- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is one of the highest multidisciplinary science awards in India. [1] It was instituted in 1958 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in honor of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, its founder director and recognizes excellence in scientific research in India. [2]
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was born in the GKV Haridwar region of British India, in a Hindu Kayastha family. His father, Parmeshwari Sahai Bhatnagar, died when he was eight months old, and he spent his childhood in the house of his maternal grandfather, an engineer, who helped him develop a liking for science and engineering.
Her research considers quantum information science and quantum photonics. She was named as one of Asia's Top 100 Scientists in 2018, appointed an Emmy Noether Fellow in 2020 and awarded the Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award in 2023. She was awarded the Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the Physics category in 2024. [1]
Often regarded as the Indian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Vigyan Ratna is part of the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar scheme, which also includes three other awards — Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, and Vigyan Team. [3] A maximum of three individuals are selected each year to receive the Vigyan Ratna Award.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2001, and then in 2014 with the G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Sciences & Technology for his contributions to biological sciences. [5]
Pragya D. Yadav (born 1 July 1978) is an Indian scientist at the ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV), who is known for her research contributions in the field of communicable diseases and highly pathogenic viral infections, such as Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Nipah, Ebola, leading to improvising national public health surveillance policy for interventions and management.