Om Prakash Bhasin Award
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 ad 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:| 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 |
| 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
Source:.
| 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 |
Electronics and Information Technology
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| 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 |
| 2020 | Swades De |
Engineering including Energy and Aerospace
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| 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 | A. K. 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
Source:.
| 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 |