Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2016

The prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and Technology was instituted in the honour of the founder Director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India, the late Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar. Each year, outstanding contributions to science and technology are recognized with this Prize. It is awarded on the basis of contributions made through work done primarily in India during the five years preceding the year of the award. The winners of 2016 Bhatnagar Prize have been announced. They are Rishikesh Narayanan and Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya for Biological Sciences; Partha Sarathi Mukherjee for Chemical Sciences; Sunil Kumar Singh for Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences; Avinash Kumar Agarwal and Venkata Narayana Padmanabhan for Engineering Sciences; Amalendu Krishna and Naveen Garg for Mathematical Sciences; A. S. Niyaz Ahmed for Medical Sciences, and Subramanian Anantha Ramakrishna and Sudhir Kumar Vempati for Physical Sciences. The highlights of the research work carried out by the awardees are briefly given in the following.