Padma Awards to professors Deepak Dhar and KN Ganesh

PUNE: Professor Emeritus Deepak Dhar from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune was conferred Padma Bhushan Award recently, and Founder Director of IISER Pune, K N Ganesh was conferred Padma Shri Award. Both the awards were conferred in the field of Science and Engineering.Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian awards of India, and are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day (January 26) every year. For the year 2023, a total of six Padma Vibhushan, 9 Padma Bhushan and 91 Padma Shri Awards have been announced.Dhar is a physicist with a long-standing research career in the area statistical physics and stochastic processes. An alumnus of University of Allahabad and IIT Kanpur, he had received his PhD in 1978 at the California Institute of Technology.Ganesh's research is in the area of the chemistry and biology of nucleic acids. He is internationally recognised for his original and creative contributions to design of Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) analogues for effective cell permeation.