Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sep 11: The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 2022, to be given to 12 young scientists across the nation, were announced by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Monday, ahead of the organization’s foundation day.
Among the honorees were immunologist Dipyaman Ganguli of the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in Kolkata, astrophysicist Kanak Saha of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune and Kanishka Biswas from International Centre of Materials Science of the Bengaluru-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
The prize, which comes with a purse of Rs 5 lakh and a citation, is awarded to scientists under the age of 45 each year.
The National Science Awards were announced amid a row over the government’s plans to reduce its funding.
The winners in the category of Biological Sciences were Amit Singh from the Indian Institute of Science’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology and Arun Kumar Shukla from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur’s Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering.
The Bio-Organic Chemistry Laboratory of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research’s Biswas and T Govindaraju were chosen to receive the prestigious award in the Chemical Sciences category.
Binoy Kumar Saikia of the Coal and Energy Research Group of the CSIR North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, won the prize in the Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences category.
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur won the award in the category of Engineering Sciences.
Anish Ghosh of the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Saket Saurabh of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, have won the prize in the area of mathematical sciences.
Rohit Srivastava of the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and Dr. Jeemon Panniyammakal of the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology will receive the prize in the category of Medical Sciences.
In the field of physical sciences, Saha won the award.
