Om Prakash Bhasin Award

Summary

Om Prakash Bhasin Award for Science and Technology is an Indian award, instituted in 1985 to recognize excellence in the areas of science and technology.[1] The award, given individually or collectively to a group, is annual in cycle and carries a plaque, a citation and a cash prize of 100,000.[1][2] The winners are invited to deliver the Om Prakash Bhasin Memorial Lecture at a venue decided by the award committee.[2]

Om Prakash Bhasin Award
Awarded forResearch in science in India
LocationIndia
Presented byOm Prakash Bhasin Foundation
First awarded1985
Websiteopbfawards.com

Profile edit

Om Prakash Bhasin Awards have been instituted by Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation, a New Delhi-based charitable organization[1] founded by Vinod Bhasin, along with her two sons, Shivy Bhasin and Hemant Kumar Bhasin, to honour the memory of her husband, Om Prakash Bhasin, a non resident Indian businessman.[3] The corpus for the award of 5,100,000 was formed by Om Prakash Bhasin as a trust before his death.[3] The awards, started in 1985, are given in five categories. The selection is through a notified procedure and is decided by a committee appointed for the purpose.[1] The committee includes the Chairman of the foundation, two trustees representing the foundation, a member of the scientific community and a representative of the State Bank of India, the bankers to the foundation. The incumbent committee members are:[3]

Categories edit

  • Agriculture and Allied Sciences[4]
  • Biotechnology[5]
  • Electronics and Information Technology[6]
  • Engineering including Energy and Aerospace[7]
  • Health and Medical Sciences[8]

Recipients edit

Agriculture and Allied Sciences edit

Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation

 
M. S. Swaminathan
 
Aditya Narayan Purohit
Year Recipient
1985 B. P. Pal
1986 H. K. Jain
1987 V. L. Chopra
1988 G. S. Venkataraman
1988 S. K. Sinha
1989 S. S. Parihar
1989 T. N. Khoshoo
1990 Prem Narain
1991 Rajendra Singh Paroda
1991 Y. L. Nene
1992 Anupam Verma
1992 Krishna Lal Chadha
1993 M. R. Sethuraj
1993 R. B. Sawhney
1994 S. N. Dwivedi
1994 E. A. Siddiq
1995 M. S. Swaminathan
1996 A. N. Purohit
1997 S. L. Mehta
1997 H. Sekhar Shetty
1998 A. Seetharam
1999 R. P. Sharma
2000 Sushil Kumar (biologist)
2001 S. Nagarajan
2002-2003 Motilal Madan
2006-2007 Baldev Singh Dhillon
2008-2009 Deepak Pental
2010-2011 Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi
2012 Vijay Pal Singh
2014 H.S. Gupta
2015 Subanna Ayyappan

Biotechnology edit

Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation

 
M. R. S. Rao.
Year Recipient
1985 G. Padmanabhan
1986 K. K. G. Menon
1986 H. Y. Mohan Ram
1988 V. Jagannathan
1989 V. Sasisekharan
1989 Sipra Guha-Mukherji
1990 Indira Nath
1990 Jyotimoy Das
1991 S. Ramachandran
1992 A. K. Sharma
1993 Avadhesha Surolia
1993 Obaid Siddiqui
1994 C. R. Bhatia
1994 H. K. Das
1995 Asis Datta
1995 Brahm Shanker Srivastava
1996 P. K. Mehta
1996 Lalji Singh
1997 S. K. Basu
1997 D. Balasubramanian
1998 Manju Sharma
1999 C. M. Gupta
2000 M. Vijayan
2001 Partha P. Majumder
2002-03 Virander Singh Chauhan
2002-03 M. R. S. Rao
2004-05 Seyed E. Hasnain
2004-05 J. Gowrishankar
2008-09 Samir K. Brahmachari
2010-11 Kanury V. S. Rao
2012 Navin Khanna
2014 Chandrima Shaha
2015 M. K. Bhan

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Electronics and Information Technology edit

Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation

 
B. L. Deekshatulu.
 
Sudhansu Datta Majumdar.
Year Recipient
1985 M. G. K. Menon
1986 P. V. S. Rao
1987 A. P. Mitra
1988 Narasimhan
1989 N. Seshagiri
1990 S. Ramani
1993 Sam Pitroda
1993 V. Rajaraman
1994 G. M. Cleetus
1994 Surendra Prasad
1995 B. L. Deekshatulu
1995 Neelakanthan
1996 Sudhansu Datta Majumdar
1997 Surendra Pal
1998 Shankar K. Pal
1999 K. G. Narayanan
2000 Vijay P. Bhatkar
2001 Lalit Mohan Patnaik
2002-03 Amitava Sen Gupta
2004-05 Ashok Jhunjhunwala
2006-07 V. Narayana Rao
2008-09 Shiban Kishen Koul
2011 Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
2013 Bishnu P. Pal
2014 Subrat Kar
2015 Ajoy Kumar Ghatak
2016 Manav Bhatnagar
2017 Anirban Pathak [9]
2020 Swades De [10]

Engineering including Energy and Aerospace edit

Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation

 
George Joseph.
 
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar.
 
Udupi Ramachandra Rao.
 
A. V. Rama Rao.
 
M. R. Srinivasan.
 
K. N. Shankara.
 
Patcha Ramachandra Rao.
 
Thirumalachari Ramasami.
 
Prem Chand Pandey.
 
Narinder Kumar Gupta.
Year Recipient
1985 Raja Ramanna
1985 M. M. Sharma
1985 Satish Dhawan
1985 S. Roy Choudhary
1986 Narla Tata Rao
1986 S. Varadarajan
1986 L. K. Doraiswamy
1986 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1987 Amulya Kumar N. Reddy
1987 S. C. Dutta Roy
1987 R. M. Vasagam
1987 George Joseph
1988 P. R. Roy
1988 R. K. Bhandari
1988 K. Kasturirangan
1989 V. S. Arunachalam
1989 K. L. Chopra
1989 J. C. Bhattacharya
1989 P. Banerji
1990 N. B. Prasad
1990 Keki Hormusji Gharda
1990 R. A. Mashelkar
1990 M. A. Ramaswamy
1991 Rajinder Kumar
1991 T. K. Bose
1992 M. S. Vasudeva
1992 Paul Ratnasamy
1992 P. Ramachandran
1992 R. Balakrishnan
1993 P. Rama Rao
1993 Udupi Ramachandra Rao
1994 H. S. Mukunda
1994 A. V. Rama Rao
1994 K. K. Mahajan
1995 Jyoti Parikh
1995 S. Sivaram
1995 G. Madhavan Nair
1995 Prem Shanker Goel
1996 M. R. Srinivasan
1996 T. S. R. Prasada Rao
1996 C. G. Krishnadas Nair
1997 K. S. Narasimhan
1997 K. N. Shankara
1998 Patcha Ramachandra Rao
1999 Placid Rodrigues
2000 Thirumalachari Ramasami
2001 Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
2002-03 E. Sreedharan
2004-05 Prem Chand Pandey
2006-07 Kota Harinarayana
2008-09 Narinder Kumar Gupta
2011 Baldev Raj
2013 G. Sundararajan
2014 Bhim Singh
2015 Sneh Anand
2019 Devang Vipin Khakhar

Health and Medical Sciences edit

Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation

 
M. S. Valiathan.
Year Recipient
1985 Vinod Prakash Sharma
1985 P. K. Rajagopalan
1986 M. S. Valiathan
1987 Prakash Narain Tandon
1988 M. G. Deo
1989 A. N. Malaviya
1990 B. N. Dhawan
1990 J. S. Guleria
1991 Madan Mohan
1991 U. C. Chaturvedi
1992 Fali S. Mehta
1992 S. K. Kacker
1994 Asha Mathur
1995 V. Ramalingaswami
1995 V. I. Mathan
1997 Kalyan Banerji
1997 Ved Prakash Kamboj
1995 N. K. Ganguly
1997 Sneh Bhargava
1998 Gourie Devi
1999 Geeta Talukder
2000 Narinder Kumar Mehra
2001 Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
2002-2003 A. S. Paintal
2004-2005 Pradeep Seth
2006-2007 Shiv Kumar Sarin
2008-2009 Jitendra Nath Pande
2011 Viswa Mohan Katoch
2013 Girish Sahni
2014 Balram Bhargava
2015 Nikhil Tandon
2018 Rohit Srivastava

See also edit

References edit

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  3. ^ a b c "OPBF profile". OPBF. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
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  5. ^ "Biotechnology". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  6. ^ "E and IT". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  7. ^ "Engineering". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  8. ^ "Medicine". Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation. 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
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  10. ^ "IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, Delhi (2021)".