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AWARDS AND HONOURS - July 2023

Jul 2023

Oct 10, 2023

Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to US labour economist Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes. Goldin is only the third woman to win the prize.

Oct 09, 2023

Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Imprisoned Iranian women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters, prompting the Islamic Republic's condemnation.
The award-making committee said that the prize honoured those behind recent unprecedented demonstrations in Iran and called for the release of Mohammadi who has campaigned for three decades for women's rights and abolition of the death penalty.

Prof. Joyeeta Gupta Receives Spinoza Prize in Field of climate CHANGE

Indian-origin professor Joyeeta Gupta received the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch science, at a ceremony in the Netherlands for her work in the field of climate change.
The Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was conferred with the prize by the Netherlands' Minister for Education, Science and Culture Robert Dijkgraaf at The Hague.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) bestows the Spinoza Prize, which includes a grant of 1.5 million euros. The NWO selection committee was highly impressed by the far-reaching and interdisciplinary nature of Gupta's research. Her work was acknowledged as "incredibly broad and interdisciplinary," highlighting its substantial scientific impact. The Spinoza Prize, presented annually since 1995, has been awarded to exceptional scholars across various fields of research.

Oct 07, 2023

Tamil writer C. S. Lakshmi Receives Tata Literature Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023

Eminent author C. S. Lakshmi, (publishing fiction under her pseudonym Ambai) was awarded the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023. One of India's leading writers and academicians, Lakshmi pioneered the writing that supported the idea of educating women in India. She is credited with transforming Tamil fiction, especially the short story genre, imaginatively experimenting with both form and language.
Born in Coimbatore in 1944, Lakshmi earned post graduate degree in Arts from Madras Universities. She later recived PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Lakshmi is also a co-founder of SPARROW (Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women), which is touted to be India's first archive dedicated to only women offering a range of writings, and visual and oral records.
Past recipients of the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award include Mahesh Elkunchwar, Anita Desai, Ruskin Bond, Shanta Gokhale, Mark Tully, Girish Karnad, Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Nagarkar, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Khushwant Singh, V. S. Naipaul, Mahashweta Devi.

Oct 06, 2023

Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Goes to Norwegian Author Jon Fosse

Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable," the award-giving body said.
Born in 1959 in Haugesund on Norway's west coast, Fosse is best known for his dramas, though his writing spans poetry, essays, children's books and translations.
The prize is regarded widely as the world's most prestigious literary award. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 116 times to 120 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2023.
Fosse is the fourth Norwegian and the first since 1928 to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

Oct 05, 2023

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
Independently of each other, Ekimov and Brus succeeded in creating quantum dots, and Bawendi revolutionised the chemical production.
Quantum dots now illuminate computer monitors and television screens based on QLED technology. They also add nuance to the light of some LED lamps, and biochemists and doctors use them to map biological tissue.

Ruixiang Zhang Recipient of 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in Mathematics

Mathematician Ruixiang Zhang, an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, was named the recipient of the prestigious 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. This award recognized his remarkable contributions to the field of mathematics. The prize, which includes a cash award of $10,000, will be presented during an international conference in Number Theory, held in the hometown of the renowned mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, at SASTRA University in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu during the third week of December.

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