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AWARDS AND HONOURS - August 2021

Aug 2021

Oct 09, 2022

Ales Bialiatski, Russia's Memorial and Ukraine's CCL Win 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

Human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
Ales Bialiatski of Belarus was one of the initiators of the democracy movement in the country in the 1980s and has devoted his life to promoting democracy and peaceful development. The human rights organisation Memorial has compiled and systematised information on political oppression and human rights violations in Russia.
Meanwhile, the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL) in Kyiv has been advancing human rights and democracy in Ukraine. The center has taken a stand to strengthen Ukrainian civil society and pressure the authorities to make Ukraine a full-fledged democracy.

Oct 08, 2022

Two Indian Students Win Prestigious Victorian Premier's Award in Australia

Two female Indian students in Australia - Divyangana Sharma and Ritika Saxena - won the prestigious Victorian Premier's award.
These awards are an initiative of the Victorian government to celebrate outstanding international students in Victoria.
Divyangana Sharma has won the coveted Victorian Premier's Award - International Student of the Year 2021-22, while, Ritika Saxena won the International Student of the Year award in the Research category.

The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 Will be Awarded to Yunqing Tang

The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 will be awarded to Yunqing Tang Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. The Award was instituted by the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) in 2005. The award includes a cash prize of $10,000 and it is presented annually to individuals aged 32 and below, who made an outstanding contribution to the field of mathematics.
Ms. Yunqing Tang's works displayed a remarkable combination of sophisticated techniques in which the arithmetic and geometry of modular curves and Shimura varieties play a central role.
Tang's recent woke in collaboration with Frank Calegari and Vesselin Dimitrov on the modular equation is of great significance.
Ms. Yunqing Tang was born in China and she completed her B.Sc at Peking University in 2011, following which she went to Harvard University for higher education. In 2016, she completed her Ph.D. under the supervision of Mark Kisin.

Oct 07, 2022

French Author Annie Ernaux Wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."
Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy.
"Annie Ernaux's debut was Les armoires vides (1974; Cleaned Out, 1990), and already in this work she started her investigation of her Norman background, but it was her fourth book, La place (1983; A Man's Place, 1992), that delivered her literary breakthrough," The Swedish Academy said in a statement.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($914,704). The money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895.

Oct 06, 2022

Scientist Roxy Koll Receives 2022 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal

Roxy Mathew Koll, a scientist at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), received the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) 2022 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal. Koll was selected for his outstanding research in Earth and space sciences. He will also be conferred as a Fellow of the AGU. AGU is a non-profit organisation that annually recognises a select number of individuals as part of its honours and recognition programme in Earth and space sciences.
Koll has made breakthrough contributions to science, monitoring, forecasts, and climate change projections for South Asia and the larger Indo-Pacific region. His research provides insights into the mechanisms and impacts of climate change on monsoon floods and droughts, cyclones, heat waves, and the marine ecosystem.
The medal is named in honour of Professor Devendra Lal, a distinguished geophysicist whose work spanned diverse areas of the Earth and space sciences. He is best known for his role in founding and developing the held in which cosmic rays produced isotopes on Earth are used as tracers to investigate a wide range of Earth science problems.

Chemistry Nobel Goes to 3 Scientists "For Development Of Click Chemistry"

The Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing "an ingenious tool for building molecule".
The Nobel laureautes were awarded for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, the academy said.
Professor Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, took click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell.
Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry – click chemistry – in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently.
While American Professor Sharpless works in Scripps Research, Mr. Meldal is a Professor at University of Copenhagen.
Click chemistry is utilised in the development of pharmaceuticals, for mapping DNA and creating materials that are more fit for purpose. Using bioorthogonal reactions, researchers have improved the targeting of cancer pharmaceuticals.

Oct 05, 2022

Nobel Prize 2022: Winners of Physics Awarded for Research in Quantum Tech

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
The three laureates conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results cleared the way for new technology based on quantum information.
The announcement came a day after the Nobel Committee announced the winner in the field of medicine kickstarting a week-long spree of announcements from across the field of science, literature, and economics.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wins UN Refugee Prize

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel won the United Nations refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.
Pointing to the more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers welcomed by Germany in 2015 and 2016, at the height of migrant crisis sparked especially by the war in Syria, the UNHCR selection committee hailed Merkel's "leadership, courage and compassion."
The annual Nansen Award was created in 1954 in honour of the first UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Norwegian Arctic explorer and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen, to mark outstanding work on behalf of refugees.
It honours individuals, groups or organisations for going above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees and other displaced and stateless people.

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