Nobel Prize In chemistry 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” Sharpless was the first scientist to work on ‘click chemistry’ – a branch of science that explores the assembly of molecules. Meldal and […]
Category: Important Awards
Nansen Award
Nansen Award: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently received the Nansen Refugee Award. Ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the UNHCR Nansen Award for providing asylum for refugees while in office. While Merkel was the Chancellor in 2015 and 2016, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers, especially from Syria. The UNHCR recognized […]
Nobel Prize In Physics
Nobel Prize In Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Two of the laureates—John Clauser and Alain Aspect—worked on firming up the concept of quantum entanglement and developing more […]
Nobel Prize For Physiology
Nobel Prize For Physiology: Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for the year 2022 “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. He has spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins […]
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize For 2022
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize For 2022: The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 will be awarded to Yunqing Tang. Yunqing Tang is an Assistant Professor with the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. According to SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Committee Ms. Yunqing’s works display a remarkable combination of sophisticated techniques, in which the arithmetic and geometry of modular curves […]
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Legendary actress Asha Parekh will be honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2020. Asha Parekh is a renowned film actress, director and producer and an accomplished Indian classical dancer. She is also a winner of Padma Shri, which was awarded to her in 1992. She has also served as the […]
INSPIRE Awards 2022
INSPIRE Awards 2022: The 9th National Level Exhibition and Project Competition (NLEPC) for the INSPIRE Awards – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge), has commenced. The INSPIRE Awards were presented to 60 Start-Ups and financial support was provided to 53,021 students. It touched an unparalleled level of inclusivity by representing ideas and innovations […]
Diamond League Trophy
Diamond League Trophy: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Neeraj Chopra for scripting history yet again by becoming the first Indian to win the prestigious Diamond League Trophy. Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win the Dimond Trophy, the prestigious title in the finale of the Diamond League series in men’s javelin. The 24-year-old, […]
Ramon Magsaysay Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award: Former Kerala Health Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] central committee member K.K. Shailaja, MLA, has declined the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation’s offer to consider her for the international honour in 2022. The foundation wanted to honour her for the public service and community leadership during the Nipah outbreak and […]
Smart Solutions Challenge And Inclusive Cities Awards 2022
Smart Solutions Challenge And Inclusive Cities Awards 2022: Smart Solutions Challenge and Inclusive Cities Awards 2022 were awarded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. In the category of early-stage innovations, the winner was a wearable technology product, Fifth Sense by Glovatrix Pvt. Ltd. This product translates sign language gestures to speech and text […]
