Prithvi Nath Dhar got the Padma Vibhushan in the year 1999.
The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in India, after the Bharat Ratna. It is awarded for “distinguished service of a high order” in any field.
Prithvi Nath Dhar was an Indian nuclear physicist and a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan. He was born in 1923 in Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan). He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and the University of Cambridge. He worked at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai. He was a member of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. He died in 2006.
The other options are incorrect.
Option A: 1960 is incorrect because Prithvi Nath Dhar was born in 1923. He would have been only 37 years old in 1960.
Option B: 1999 is the correct answer.
Option C: 2008 is incorrect because Prithvi Nath Dhar died in 2006.
Option D: 2012 is incorrect because Prithvi Nath Dhar was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1999.