G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research is an award instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation in honour of the Indian philanthropist Ghanshyam Das Birla. The award is given to an outstanding scientific research, mostly during the past 5 years, undertaken by an Indian scientist, who is below the age of 50, living and working in India. It carries a cash prize of ₹5 lakhs (0.5 million). The award is given every year and is available for all branches of science including medical science, basic and applied.

For the year 2022 it was awarded to Professor Narayan Pradhan for his Outstanding Contribution in the field of MATERIAL SCIENCES.

Recipients

Year Recipient Field Institution2023 Prof. Aditi Sen(De)Quantum Information and ComputationHarish-Chandra Research Institute2022Prof. Narayan PradhanOutstanding contribution to Material ScienceIndian Association for the Cultivation of Science2021Prof Suman ChakrabortyOutstanding contribution to engineering science and its applications in developing technologies for affordable healthcare.Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur2018 Rajeev Kumar Varshney Agriculture International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad2017 Dr.Rajan Shankarnarayanan Structural biology centre for cellular and molecular biology, Hyderabad2016 Prof. Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare Physics Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research2015 Sanjay Mittal High performance computing Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 2014 Sanjeev Galande Cell biology Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune 2013 Rajesh Gopakumar Quantum field theory and string theory Harish Chandra Research Institute 2012 Nibir Mandal Structural geology Jadavpur University 2011 Tapas Kumar Kundu Biochemistry Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research 2010 Subhasis Chaudhuri Electrical engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai 2009 Manindra Agrawal Computer science Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 2008 Raghavan Varadarajan Biophysics Indian Institute of Science 2007 Santanu Bhattacharya Chemistry Indian Institute of Science 2006 Sriram Ramaswamy Physics Indian Institute of Science 2005 Dipankar Das Sarma Nanotechnology Indian Institute of Science 2004 Arun M. Jayannvar Physics Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 2003 Thanu Padmanabhan Astrophysics Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics 2002 P. P. Majumdar Human genetics Indian Statistical Institute 2001 Seyed E. Hasnain Medical genetics University of Hyderabad 2000 Ajay K. Sood Experimental physics Indian Institute of Science 1999 Sankar K. Pal Computer engineering Indian Statistical Institute 1998 Not awarded 1997 Biman Bagchi Structural chemistry Indian Institute of Science 1996 Ashoke Sen Theoretical physics Harish-Chandra Research Institute 1995 Girish S. Agarwal Quantum optics Physical Research Laboratory 1994 Padmanabhan Balaram Biochemistry Indian Institute of Science 1993 R.A. Mashelkar Polymer science Council of Scientific & Industrial Research 1992 Goverdhan Mehta Organic chemistry University of Hyderabad 1991 Asis Datta Molecular biology National Centre for Plant Genome Research

See also

List of general science and technology awards

References 12. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/narayan-pradhan-selected-for-gd-birla-award-for-scientific-research-101647281852795.html

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