New Delhi, 27 September 2020: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) celebrated its 79th Foundation Day at the S S Bhatnagar Sabhaghar in its premises here yesterday. Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Health and Family Welfare and Vice President, CSIR presided over the event.
On this occasion, 12 scientists have received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) for Science and Technology 2020, the highest award in Science and Technology in India.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) for Science and Technology 2020 List of recipients
Biological Sciences
Dr Subhadeep Chatterjee
Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Hyderabad 500 039
Dr Vatsala Thirumalai
Neural Circuits and Development Laboratory
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Bengaluru 560 065
Chemical Sciences
Dr Jyotirmayee Dash
School of Chemical Sciences
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Kolkata 700 032
Dr Subi Jacob George
New Chemistry Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research, Bengaluru 560 064
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences
Dr Abhijit Mukherjee
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur 721 302
Dr Suryendu Dutta
Department of Earth Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai 400 076
Engineering Sciences
Dr Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni
Chemical Engineering and Process Development
CSIR National Chemical Laboratory
Pune 411 008
Dr Kinshuk Dasgupta
Materials Group
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai 400 085
Mathematical Sciences
Dr Rajat Subhra Hazra
Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata 700 108
Dr U K Anandavardhanan
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai 400 076
Medical Sciences
Dr Bushra Ateeq
Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208 016
Dr Ritesh Agarwal
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and
Research, Chandigarh 160 012
Physical Sciences
Dr Rajesh Ganapathy
International Centre for Materials Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Bengaluru 560 064
Dr Surajit Dhara
School of Physics
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad 500 046
In view of the current Covid-19 pandemic while the physical event was small gathering with appropriate social distancing, Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, DG, CSIR & Secretary, DSIR (Department for Scientific & Industrial Research), Mr. A. Chakraborty, Head, HRDG, andall CSIR labs and several others joined the event through various social media platforms.
