President Droupadi Murmu conferred the first-ever Vigyan Ratna Puraskar on noted biochemist and former director of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science Govindrajan Padmanabhan.
Vigyan Ratna Puraskar is India’s top science award.
The Vigyan Ratna Award is presented to scientists who have made lifetime contributions in any field of Science and Technology.
President also conferred 13 Vigyan Shri Puraskar, 18 Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes and one Vigyan Team award.
Vigyan Shri Awards are presented to scientists for their path-breaking research in their respective domains.
The Vigyan Team Award has been presented to a team of three or more scientists for making groundbreaking research contributions.
It has been presented to the Chandrayaan-3 team for the successful landing of the Chandrayaan-3 lander on the south pole of the moon.
