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. 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. The winners are invited to deliver the Om Prakash Bhasin Memorial Lecture at a venue decided by the award committee.
Profile Om Prakash Bhasin Awards have been instituted by Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation, a New Delhi-based charitable organization 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. The corpus for the award of 5,100,000 was formed by Om Prakash Bhasin as a trust before his death. 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. 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: Shivy Bhasin - Chairman Hemant Kumar Bhasin - Foundation trustee Vinod Prakash Sharma - Scientist trustee Samar Vikram Bhasin - Foundation trustee State Bank of India nominee
Categories
Agriculture and Allied Sciences Biotechnology Electronics and Information Technology Engineering including Energy and Aerospace Health and Medical Sciences
Recipients
Agriculture and Allied Sciences Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
Year Recipient1985 B. P. Pal1986 H. K. Jain1987 V. L. Chopra1988 G. S. Venkataraman1988 S. K. Sinha1989 S. S. Parihar1989 T. N. Khoshoo1990 Prem Narain1991 Rajendra Singh Paroda1991 Y. L. Nene1992 Anupam Verma1992 Krishna Lal Chadha1993 M. R. Sethuraj1993 R. B. Sawhney1994 S. N. Dwivedi1994 E. A. Siddiq1995 M. S. Swaminathan1996 A. N. Purohit1997 S. L. Mehta1997 H. Sekhar Shetty1998 A. Seetharam1999 R. P. Sharma2000 Sushil Kumar (biologist)2001 S. Nagarajan2002-2003 Motilal Madan2006-2007 Baldev Singh Dhillon2008-2009 Deepak Pental2010-2011 Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi2012 Vijay Pal Singh2014 H.S. Gupta2015 Subanna Ayyappan2024 Dinesh A Nagegowda
Biotechnology Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
Year Recipient1985 G. Padmanabhan1986 K. K. G. Menon1986 H. Y. Mohan Ram1988 V. Jagannathan1989 V. Sasisekharan1989 Sipra Guha-Mukherji1990 Indira Nath1990 Jyotimoy Das1991 S. Ramachandran1992 A. K. Sharma1993 Avadhesha Surolia1993 Obaid Siddiqui1994 C. R. Bhatia1994 H. K. Das1995 Asis Datta1995 Brahm Shanker Srivastava1996 P. K. Mehta1996 Lalji Singh1997 S. K. Basu1997 D. Balasubramanian1998 Manju Sharma1999 C. M. Gupta2000 M. Vijayan2001 Partha P. Majumder2002-03 Virander Singh Chauhan2002-03 M. R. S. Rao2004-05 Seyed E. Hasnain2004-05 J. Gowrishankar2008-09 Samir K. Brahmachari2010-11 Kanury V. S. Rao2012 Navin Khanna2014 Chandrima Shaha2015 M. K. Bhan2020 Asad Ullah Khan
Electronics and Information Technology Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
Year Recipient1985 M. G. K. Menon1986 P. V. S. Rao1987 A. P. Mitra1988 Narasimhan1989 N. Seshagiri1990 S. Ramani1993 Sam Pitroda1993 V. Rajaraman1994 G. M. Cleetus1994 Surendra Prasad1995 B. L. Deekshatulu1995 Neelakanthan1996 Sudhansu Datta Majumdar1997 Surendra Pal1998 Shankar K. Pal1999 K. G. Narayanan2000 Vijay P. Bhatkar2001 Lalit Mohan Patnaik2002-03 Amitava Sen Gupta2004-05 Ashok Jhunjhunwala2006-07 V. Narayana Rao2008-09 Shiban Kishen Koul2011 Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri2013 Bishnu P. Pal2014 Subrat Kar2015 Ajoy Kumar Ghatak2016 Manav Bhatnagar2017 Anirban Pathak2020 Swades De 2022 Bhargab B. Bhattacharya
Engineering including Energy and Aerospace Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
Year Recipient1985 Raja Ramanna1985 M. M. Sharma1985 Satish Dhawan1985 S. Roy Choudhary1986 Narla Tata Rao1986 S. Varadarajan1986 L. K. Doraiswamy1986 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam1987 Amulya Kumar N. Reddy1987 S. C. Dutta Roy1987 R. M. Vasagam1987 George Joseph1988 P. R. Roy1988 R. K. Bhandari1988 K. Kasturirangan1989 V. S. Arunachalam1989 K. L. Chopra1989 J. C. Bhattacharya1989 P. Banerji1990 N. B. Prasad1990 Keki Hormusji Gharda1990 R. A. Mashelkar1990 M. A. Ramaswamy1991 Rajinder Kumar1991 T. K. Bose1992 M. S. Vasudeva1992 Paul Ratnasamy1992 P. Ramachandran1992 R. Balakrishnan1993 P. Rama Rao1993 Udupi Ramachandra Rao1994 H. S. Mukunda1994 A. V. Rama Rao1994 K. K. Mahajan1995 Jyoti Parikh1995 S. Sivaram1995 G. Madhavan Nair1995 Prem Shanker Goel1996 M. R. Srinivasan1996 T. S. R. Prasada Rao1996 C. G. Krishnadas Nair1997 K. S. Narasimhan1997 K. N. Shankara1998 Patcha Ramachandra Rao1999 Placid Rodrigues2000 Thirumalachari Ramasami2001 Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme2002-03 E. Sreedharan2004-05 Prem Chand Pandey2006-07 Kota Harinarayana2008-09 Narinder Kumar Gupta2011 Baldev Raj2013 G. Sundararajan2014 Bhim Singh2015 Sneh Anand2019 Devang Vipin Khakhar
Health and Medical Sciences Source: Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
Year Recipient1985 Vinod Prakash Sharma1985 P. K. Rajagopalan1986 M. S. Valiathan1987 Prakash Narain Tandon1988 M. G. Deo1989 A. N. Malaviya1990 B. N. Dhawan1990 J. S. Guleria1991 Madan Mohan1991 U. C. Chaturvedi1992 Fali S. Mehta1992 S. K. Kacker1994 Asha Mathur1995 V. Ramalingaswami1995 V. I. Mathan1997 Kalyan Banerji1997 Ved Prakash Kamboj1995 N. K. Ganguly1997 Sneh Bhargava1998 Gourie Devi1999 Geeta Talukder2000 Narinder Kumar Mehra2001 Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath2002-2003 A. S. Paintal2004-2005 Pradeep Seth2006-2007 Shiv Kumar Sarin2008-2009 Jitendra Nath Pande2011 Viswa Mohan Katoch2013 Girish Sahni2014 Balram Bhargava2015 Nikhil Tandon2018 Rohit Srivastava
See also
List of general science and technology awards List of biology awards List of engineering awards List of medicine awards List of physics awards
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