Vigyan Gaurav Award

The Vigyan Gaurav Award or the Vigyan Gaurav Samman is a lifetime achievement award for scientific research conferred by the Council of Science and Technology, Government of Uttar Pradesh in India. The council also presents a Vigyan Ratna Award. Since 2013, the award includes cash price of inr 500000 which was earlier inr 100000. This is the highest science related award given by Uttar Pradesh government.

Recipients

 * 2000 - Ved Prakash Kamboj
 * 2001 - 2002 - Prem Chand Pandey
 * 2002-03 - Dr. Lalji Singh - Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University
 * 2003-04 - Dr. J. S. Yadav - director of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad
 * 2003-04 - Dr. R. P. Bajpai - director of Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh
 * 2005-06 - Professor Javed Iqbal- Director, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad
 * 2008-09 - Prof. Anil Kumar Tyagi - head of biochemistry department, Delhi University
 * 2008-09 - Prof. Kabiruddin - chemistry department, Aligarh Muslim University
 * 2010-11 - Prof. R. K. Sharma - director of Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
 * 2010-11 - Prof. Sunil Pradhan - neurologist at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
 * 2010-11 - Prof. Mohammad Iqbal - professor of Botany from Jamia Hamdard University
 * 2010-11 - Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal - director of National Botanical Research Institute
 * 2015-16 - Prof. Nirmal Kumar Gupta - Head of Cardio Vascular Thoracic Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow