A monk, an ex-army officer, a philosopher and a malaria researcher are among this year’s recipients of the Infosys Prize, instituted by the Infosys Science Foundation and funded by contributions from the software company Infosys’ former board of directors and senior management. Read more
Every three years, Thomson Reuters draws up a list of 10 eminent Indian researchers who demonstrate the strongest performance in their research areas by way of highly cited papers and total citations to those papers. At an award ceremony last evening, these top 10 were honoured based on review of papers published between 2010 to 2014 and indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science (the list excludes any researcher previously named in their top 10 list): … Read more
Scientists and researchers, like people in any other profession, love a pat on the back. More so, since their perseverance is generally recognised only after long years of toil. Read more
This week saw another alumnus of the Presidency College, fondly called the Oxford of the East, do India proud by bagging Rockefeller Foundation’s first ever Borlaug Field Award, which has been constituted to recognise young researchers helping farmers and hungry people around the world through science. Earlier this month string theorist Ashoke Sen, another Presidency product, wowed the world when he was named one among the eight scientists worldwide to receive the three million dollar Fundamental Physics Prize in its first edition. Read more
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