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
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Vinod Prakash Sharma - Scientist trustee
* Samar Vikram Bhasin - Foundation trustee
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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
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Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation
Biotechnology
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Electronics and Information Technology
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Engineering including Energy and Aerospace
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Health and Medical Sciences
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See also
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List of general science and technology awards
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List of biology awards
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List of engineering awards
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List of medicine awards
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List of physics awards
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The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a li ...
References
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Indian science and technology awards
Indian awards
Awards established in 1985
Physics awards
Research in India
1985 establishments in India