Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize For Science and Technology 2022

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize For Science and Technology 2022

About Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize For Science and Technology 2022
Nominations are invited for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology 2022

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) invites nominations for the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prizes in Science and Technology for the year 2022. The SSB Prizes are to be given for research contributions made primarily in India during the past six years.

PREAMBLE

* The award is named after the founder Director of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), the late Dr (Sir) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and is known as the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize for Science and Technology’.

* The Prize is given each year for outstanding contributions to science and technology

NATURE

* SSB Prizes, each of the value of Rs 5,00,000 (Rupees five lakh) are awarded annually for notable and outstanding research, fundamental or applied, in the following disciplines:

(1) Biological
(2) Chemical
(3) Earth-Atmosphere-Ocean-Planetary
(4) Engineering
(5) Mathematical
(6) Medical and
(7) Physical Sciences.

PURPOSE

Recognition of outstanding Indian work in science and technology.

ELIGIBILITY

* Any citizen of India engaged in research in any field of science and technology up to the age of 45 years as reckoned on 31st December of the year preceding the year of the Prize. Overseas citizen of India (OCI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) working in India are also eligible.

* The Prize is bestowed on a person who, in the opinion of CSIR, has made conspicuously important and outstanding contributions to human knowledge and progress – fundamental or applied – in the particular field of endeavour, which is his/her specialization.

* The Prize is awarded on the basis of contributions made through work done primarily in India during the five years preceding the year of the Prize. (For this purpose ‘primarily’ will mean ‘for the most part’)

Please visit https://ssbprize.gov.in  for further details and nomination format.

Nomination must be submitted in the prescribed format via e-mail to ssb(at)csirhrdg.res.in on or before 31st March 2022.

Information Document

Official Website :  https://ssbprize.gov.in/

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