Joyoti Basu, cell biologist, N-Bios laureate[10] Birendra Bijoy Biswas, Botanist and molecular biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Swapan Kumar Datta, Plant molecular biologist and bio-technologist, Vice chancellor (Offg.) of Visva Bharati Siddhartha Roy, structural biologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Mahendralal Sarkar, founder, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Calcutta