# G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research

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 | Institution |
| 2023 | Prof. Aditi Sen(De) | Quantum Information and Computation | Harish-Chandra Research Institute |
| 2022 | Prof. Narayan Pradhan | Outstanding contribution to Material Science | Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science |
| 2021 | Prof Suman Chakraborty | Outstanding contribution to engineering science and its applications in developing technologies for affordable healthcare. | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (Department of mechanical engineering) |
| 2018 | Rajeev Kumar Varshney | Agriculture | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad |
| 2017 | Dr.Rajan Shankarnarayanan | Structural biology | centre for cellular and molecular biology, Hyderabad |
| 2016 | Prof. Umesh Vasudeo Waghmare | Physics | Theoretical Science Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore |
| 2015 | 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 |