Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2012

The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research .It is the highest award for science in India.The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is awarded annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and Physics. , Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.t was first awarded in 1958. The purpose of the prize is to recognize outstanding Indian work (according to the view of CSIR awarding committee) in science and technology.

In 2012 11 scientists awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology  they are

Physical Sciences

Arindam Ghosh
IISc, Bangalore
Krishnendu Sengupta
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Chemical Sciences

Govindsamy Mugesh
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)

Gangadhar J Sanjayan
CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

Engineering Sciences

Ravishankar Narayanan
IISc, Banglore

Y Shanthi Pavan
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Medical Science

Sandip Basu
Radiation Medicine Centre at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Biological Sciences

Shantanu Chowdhury
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology

Suman Kumar Dhar of the
Special Centre for Molecular Medicine at the JNU

Mathematical Sciences

Siva Ramachandran Athreya and Debashish Goswami
Indian Statistical Institute