In New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday awarded the first Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, India's highest scientific award, to noted biochemist and former director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Sciences, Govindrajan Padmanabhan.
At an award ceremony at the Ganatantra Mandapam of Rashtrapati Bhawan, the President also conferred 13 Vigyan Shri Puraskar awards, 18 Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards and one Vigyan Team award, marking the first scientific award ceremony.
The team of scientists and engineers who worked on the Chandrayaan-3 mission were honored with the Vigyan Team Award, which was received by the mission's project director P Veeramuthuvel.
All awardees received a medal and a citation for their outstanding achievements in their respective fields.
Annapurni Subramaniam, director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics; Anandharamakrishnan C, director, Thiruvananthapuram-based National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology; Avesh Kumar Tyagi, head of the chemistry group at the Bhabha Atomic Research Institute; Professor Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi of the Lucknow-based CSIR National Botanical Research Institute was among the 13 winners of the Vigyan Shri awards.
biologist Umesh Varshney of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science; Professor Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar of the Pune-based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research; Prof Bhim Singh, Professor Emeritus, IIT-Delhi; Sanjay Behari, director, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology; Professor Adimurthi Adi of IIT-Kanpur and Rahul Mukherjee of IIM-Kolkata were also awarded Vigyan Shri awards.
physicists Naba Kumar Mondal of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Lakshmanan Muthuswamy of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli; Professor Rohit Srivastava, IIT Bombay, was also a recipient of the Vigyan Shri awards.
The Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards were awarded to climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll of the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology; Professor Vivek Polshettiwar of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Professor Vishal Rai of IISER-Bhopal; Krishna Murthy S L of the Indian Rice Research Institute and Swarup Kumar Parida of the National Plant Genome Research Institute.
Prof Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi of IISER-Bhopal, Aravind Penmasta of IISc, Bengaluru; Abhilash of CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur; Radha Krishna Ganti of IIT-Madras; Purbi Saikia of Central University of Jharkhand; Bappi Paul of National University of Forensic Sciences, Gandhinagar was among the Vigyan Yuva awardees.
Pragya Dhruv Yadav of the Pune-based ICMR National Institute of Virology, who played a key role in the development and evaluation of Covid-19 vaccines; Prof. Jitendra Kumar Sahu of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; Mahesh Ramesh Kakde of IISc, Bengaluru, was among the winners of the Vigyan Yuva awards.
Urbasi Sinha of Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru; Digendranath Swain of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; Prashant Kumar, Ahmedabad Space Applications Centre; and Professor Prabhu Rajagopal of IIT-Madras also received the Vigyan Yuva awards.
These new sets of awards, Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar, were instituted last year by the government after doing away with all existing scientific awards.
At an award ceremony at the Ganatantra Mandapam of Rashtrapati Bhawan, the President also conferred 13 Vigyan Shri Puraskar awards, 18 Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards and one Vigyan Team award, marking the first scientific award ceremony.
The team of scientists and engineers who worked on the Chandrayaan-3 mission were honored with the Vigyan Team Award, which was received by the mission's project director P Veeramuthuvel.
All awardees received a medal and a citation for their outstanding achievements in their respective fields.
Annapurni Subramaniam, director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics; Anandharamakrishnan C, director, Thiruvananthapuram-based National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology; Avesh Kumar Tyagi, head of the chemistry group at the Bhabha Atomic Research Institute; Professor Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi of the Lucknow-based CSIR National Botanical Research Institute was among the 13 winners of the Vigyan Shri awards.
biologist Umesh Varshney of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science; Professor Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar of the Pune-based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research; Prof Bhim Singh, Professor Emeritus, IIT-Delhi; Sanjay Behari, director, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology; Professor Adimurthi Adi of IIT-Kanpur and Rahul Mukherjee of IIM-Kolkata were also awarded Vigyan Shri awards.
physicists Naba Kumar Mondal of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics and Lakshmanan Muthuswamy of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli; Professor Rohit Srivastava, IIT Bombay, was also a recipient of the Vigyan Shri awards.
The Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards were awarded to climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll of the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology; Professor Vivek Polshettiwar of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Professor Vishal Rai of IISER-Bhopal; Krishna Murthy S L of the Indian Rice Research Institute and Swarup Kumar Parida of the National Plant Genome Research Institute.
Prof Radhakrishnan Mahalakshmi of IISER-Bhopal, Aravind Penmasta of IISc, Bengaluru; Abhilash of CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur; Radha Krishna Ganti of IIT-Madras; Purbi Saikia of Central University of Jharkhand; Bappi Paul of National University of Forensic Sciences, Gandhinagar was among the Vigyan Yuva awardees.
Pragya Dhruv Yadav of the Pune-based ICMR National Institute of Virology, who played a key role in the development and evaluation of Covid-19 vaccines; Prof. Jitendra Kumar Sahu of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; Mahesh Ramesh Kakde of IISc, Bengaluru, was among the winners of the Vigyan Yuva awards.
Urbasi Sinha of Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru; Digendranath Swain of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; Prashant Kumar, Ahmedabad Space Applications Centre; and Professor Prabhu Rajagopal of IIT-Madras also received the Vigyan Yuva awards.
These new sets of awards, Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar, were instituted last year by the government after doing away with all existing scientific awards.
