Ten scientists won this year's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award.
of IIT, Madras, worked on chemical and physical properties of nanomaterials of noble metals like gold and silver.
from AIIMS, Delhi, is the medical sciences winner. His work is on disorders like oesteomalacia, a bone disease related to calcium deficiency, and the connection between vitamin D deficiency and rickets.
is from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research ranges from currents in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, ocean circulation models, the air-sea interaction, coastal circulation around India and Sri Lanka, to the exchange of currents between Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal.
of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, worked on new materials for making glass. His work in the past five years showed how silicon, when supercooled, acts as a metal, which it is not actually.
of IIT, Kanpur, worked on the mechanism of organic reactions.
