CSIR and its forty one national laboratories aim to generate new scientific knowledge and to develop and adopt technologies suitable for bringing profitable products to market. Through the spectrum of extramural schemes managed by its Human Resource Development (HRD) Group, CSIR complements the efforts of national education system to develop manpower for Science and Technology. The HRD Group also creates opportunities for training and retraining of scientists and engineers working in CSIR. Its activities for encouraging Scientific research and development in the country include honourable national awards to individual scientists for their new, useful and valuable discoveries and inventions.
Between 1958 and 1991, two hundred and fifty nine Indian scientists and engineers have won the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for their contributions to Science and Technology. The SSB Prize winners (Bhatnagar Laureates) exemplify the best of talents in Indian Science. Variation in their careers reflects the development of opportunities and avenues for pursuit of scientific research in the country.
Since the careers of Bhatnagar Laureates may relate history of modern Indian science, need was felt of a document giving consolidated particulars of these men and women. This book presents about most of them detailed particulars of the family, academic and professional background, areas of interest and an account of accomplishments: abstract of scientific contributions, list of important research papers, membership of the learned societies and editorial boards and awards and distinctions won. A photograph of each Laureate is also presented.
The biodata of the Bhatnagar Laureates have been arranged alphabetically on the basis of their last names. To facilitate reference, the name, specialisation and chronological indices have been given at the end.
It is important to record here that SSB Prize is being awarded to Indian scientists and engineers for their work done in India especially during 5 years prior to the award. Although scientists of all groups were eligible for the prize upto 1968, from 1969 only those upto the age of 45 years at the time of selection have been eligible for prize. Bhatnagar prize winners have been receiving a citation, a memento and prize money usually from the President of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Prime Minister of India. The amount of prize has varied; it was Rs 10,000 initially and got raised to Rs 20,000 in 1978 and to Rs 50,000 in 1987. Each year none, one or two awards are given in the Biological, Chemical, Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary, Engineering, Mathematical, Medical and Physical Sciences. Prior to 1981 the prize money used to be divided among the joint awardees. However, from 1981 full prize money is given to each awardee. The overall idea of the national SSB Prize has been to recognize talent at young stage in all science and engineering disciplines so that the contributions of the recipients can be maximised.
We hope that this publication would prove to be a useful information resource about prominent Indian scientists and for the history of modern Indian science.
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology was instituted in 1957 in the name of the founder Director General and principal architect of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The prize is conferred each year on the Indian scientists below the age of 45 years, in recognition of their outstanding basic and applied research contributions in the different areas of science and technology It has now become the most coveted national recognition for scientists and engineers. Between the year 1958 and 1991 a total of 259 scientists and technologists (252 men and 7 women) from all over India have won this prestigious award in their own disciplines of research work. Many of them have won additional national and international recognition in the form of prizes, awards and memberships and fellowships of learned academies and societies. A great deal can be learnt about the profile of Indian science from the characteristics of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners.
This publication outlines personal particulars and scientific contributions of all the erstwhile Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winners. I hope the educationists, scientists and engineers, social scientists and historians would find this publication interesting and useful, I would like to place on record our appreciation of the work done by the members of the Human Resource Development Group of CSIR in putting together the biodata of all the 1958-1991 Bhatnagar Laureates.
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Islam (235)
Jainism (275)
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