National
Scientific Awards - Prof MS Swaminathan
- Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar Award for contributions to Biological Sciences (1961)
- Birbal Sahni Medal of the Indian Botanical Society for contributions
to Applied Botany (1966)
- Silver Jubilee Commemoration Medal of the Indian National Science Academy
for contributions to genetics and agricultural research (1971)
- Barclay Medal of the Asiatic Society for contributions to genetics (1978)
- Moudgil Prize for contributions to standardisation (1978)
- Borlaug Award (1979)
- Meghnad Saha Medal of the Indian National Science Academy (1981)
- Rathindranath Tagore Prize of Visva Bharati University (1981)
- R.D. Misra Medal of the Indian Environmental Society (1981)
- "Krishi Ratna" Award for serving the farming community by
the Bharat Krishak Samaj/World Agriculture Fair Memorial Trust Society
(1986)
- Dr. J.C. Bose Medal, Bose Institute (1989)
- Lal Bahadur Shastri Deshgaurav Samman (1992)
- Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress
Association (1992)
- Charles Darwin International Science and Environment Medal (1993)
- Dr. B.P. Pal Medal for unique contributions to agricultural research
and development of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India
(1997)
- V. Gangadharan Award for outstanding contributions to National Development
(1997)
- B.P. Pal Memorial Award of the Indian Science Congress Association (1998)
- Shatabdi Puraskar in the field of Agricultural Sciences of the Indian
Science Congress Association (1999)
- Prof P N Mehra Memorial Award (1999)
- Legend in his Lifetime Award by the World Wilderness Trust (1999)
- Asutosh Mookerjee Memorial Award for 1999-2000 by the Indian Science
Congress Association
- Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development (2000) –
for his outstanding contribution, in the domain of plant genetics and
ensuring food security to hundreds of millions of citizens in the developing
world.
- Millennium Alumnus Award by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (2000)
- Millennium Scientist Award by the Indian Science Congress Association
(2001)
- Lokmanya Tilak Award by the Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune (2001)
- Indira Gandhi Gold Plaque (2002) by the Asiatic Society for his significant
contribution towards human progress.
- BioSpectrum Life Time Achievement Award (2003)
- Technology Achievement Award (2005)
- Raja Rammohan Roy Puraskar (2005)
- Sir Deviprasad Sarvadhikary Medal (2005) in appreciation of his outstanding contribution in the field of Science
- All India Management Association’s Life Time Achievement Award
(2007) for Management – in recognition of his contribution to
sustainable development through mitigation of hunger in India and elsewhere
- Distinguished Global Thinker Award (2007) for his work in the cause
of achieving food and agricultural security, by the Institute for Integrated
Learning in Management, New Delhi.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics Management (2007)