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TWAS Prize
This is a list of recipients of the TWAS Prize, awarded annually by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Summary Agricultural Sciences Biology Chemistry Earth Sciences Engineering Sciences Mathematics Medical Sciences Physics Social Sciences See also * Nikkei Asia Prize The Nikkei Asia Prize (Japanese: 日経アジア賞) is an award which recognizes the achievements of people and organizations that have improved the lives of people throughout Asia. The awards were created and presented by Nikkei Inc, one of the ... * Borlaug CAST Communication Award * L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Notes References External links * * * * * * * * {{Use dmy dates, date=November 2018 Science and technology awards Awards established in 1985 International awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World Academy Of Sciences
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable development in developing countries. It was formerly known as the ''Third World Academy of Sciences''. Its headquarters is located on the premises of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. History TWAS was founded in 1983 under the leadership of the Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan by a group of distinguished scientists who were determined to do something about the dismal state of scientific research in developing countries. * Although developing countries account for 80% of the world's population, only 28% of the world's scientists hail from these countries. This fact reflects the lack of innovative potential necessary to solve real-life problems affecting poor nations. * A chronic lack o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lúcia Mendonça Previato
Lúcia Mendonça Previato (born 1949) is a Brazilian biologist. She was awarded the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2004 for her research into preventing Chagas disease. She is married to Jose Osvaldo Previato and has two children, Anna and Peter. She graduated from St. Ursula University and earned her Doctorate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Microbiology and Immunology. She is also a recipient of the TWAS Prize This is a list of recipients of the TWAS Prize, awarded annually by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Summary Agricultural Sciences Biology Chemistry Earth Sciences Engineering Sciences Mathematics Medical Sc ... in Biology. References 1949 births Living people Brazilian women academics Academic staff of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazilian biologists L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science laureates 21st-century Brazilian women scientists TWAS laureates {{biolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukh Dev
Sukh Dev FNA, FASc (born 17 June 1923) is an Indian organic chemist, academic, researcher and writer, known for his contributions in the development of Guggulsterone, a plant-derived steroid used as a therapeutic and nutritional agent. He has conducted advanced research in biomedical science and natural products chemistry and holds 55 patents for his findings. He is a recipient of several honors including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award in science and technology. In 2008, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour of India, for his contributions to science and technology. Biography Sukh Dev was born on 17 June 1923 at Chakwal, in the Punjab province of then- British India to Hari Chand Lala and Maya Vanti. He graduated with honors from Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, Lahore of the Punjab University in 1943 and secured his master's degree (MSc) from the same institution in 1945. He then joined the Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Chuangtian
Chen Chuangtian (; 18 February 1937 – 31 October 2018), also known as Chuang-Tian Chen, was a Chinese materials scientist and physical chemist who specialized in crystals used in lasers. He discovered the nonlinear optical crystals BBO, LBO and KBBF, which have important uses in areas including superconductor research, semiconductor photolithography, and the medical industry. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the TWAS Prize in Chemistry, the State Technological Invention Award (First Class), and the Laudise Prize. Biography Chen was born on 18 February 1937 in Fenghua, Zhejiang, China. He studied at Shenyang No. 2 High School, and was accepted by the Department of Physics of Peking University in August 1956. After graduating in 1962, he entered the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter in Fuzhou on the recommendation of Hu Ning, and studied under physical chemist Lu Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tessy María López Goerne
Tessy María López Goerne (born October 22, 1961) is a Mexican solid-state chemist, professor, researcher, academic, and popular science communicator. She has specialized in the fields of nanotechnology and nanomedicine, as well as being a pioneer in catalytic nanomedicine. She directs the Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Laboratories at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (UAM-X) plant and the . Early life and education López Goerne was born in Guanajuato City Mexico October 22, 1961. She graduated from the University of Guanajuato at the age of 17 where her father was a scientist. She obtained a Masters in Solid State physics and a PhD in Material Science from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. In 2005 she founded the research Lab in Nanotechnology & Medicine at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Guanajuato Mexico. Her research focused on using nanoparticles to treat Epilepsy and Parkinson's. Research and academics López Goerne has worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju
Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju is an Indian structural chemist, educationist and a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science. He has contributed substantially to the themes of crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonding. He has authored books on these subjects in 1989 and 1999. He has co-authored a textbook in crystal engineering (2011). He is one of the most highly cited Indian scientists (h index = 102) and has been recognised by awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis 2000, the ISA Medal for Science 2018 of the University of Bologna, the van der Waals Prize 2023 of ICNI Strasbourg, and the TWAS Prize in Chemistry 2000. He served as President of the International Union of Crystallography for the triennium 2011–2014. He has been conferred the first 'Arivé Guru' award (2022) of Karnatak University, Dharwad. He is the author of a book on the Constitution of India and governance structures (2022) entitled "Bharat: India 2.0". In this book he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padmanabhan Balaram
Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan (2014) as well as the TWAS Prize (1994). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society. Education Balaram received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Fergusson College, University of Pune followed by a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University with Aksel A. Bothner-By. After a postdoctoral stint at Harvard University with Nobel laureate Robert Burns Woodward, he returned to the Indian Institute of Science, where he has been ever since as a faculty member in the Molecular Biophysics Unit. He presently holds a Chaired Professorship at the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. During his PhD, Balaram studied the use of negative Nuclear Overhauser ef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amitabha Chattopadhyay
Amitabha Chattopadhyay is an Indian scientist working in the areas of membrane and receptor biology and biophysics . He is presently a CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology and served as the founding dean of biological sciences at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research ( AcSIR). In addition, he is a distinguished visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, adjunct professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Kolkata), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), and honorary professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bangalore). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 and Royal Society of Biology in 2017. Chattopadhyay has authored more than 300 research papers and has an h-index of 65. In 2016, Chattopadhyay won The World Academy of Sciences in Biolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Guoliang
Xu Guoliang (; born February 1965) is a Chinese molecular geneticist. He is a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Xu graduated from Hangzhou University Department of Biology in 1985, and obtained his master's degree at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. In 1993 he earned his Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Technical University of Berlin. Xu's research mainly focuses on the epigenetic regulation. In 2011 his group discovered that the DNA oxidative demethylation is mediated by DNA oxidase TET and glycosidase TDG, and clarified its role in the canceration of the cells. In 2014, he published his study concerning the effect of DNA methylation and histone modification. In 2013, Xu was awarded the TWAS Prize "for his contribution to the understanding of the role and mechanism of DNA oxidation in epigenetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Belén Elgoyhen
Ana Belén Elgoyhen (born 13 December 1959) is an Argentina, Argentinian scientist, professor of pharmacology at the University of Buenos Aires and independent researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET). She is internationally recognized for her contributions to the understanding of the molecular basis of hearing (sense). Her work could be useful to treat auditory deficiencies and other hearing pathologies. Biography Ana Belén Elgoyhen was born on 13 December 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1984 she graduated in biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. She received her PhD in biochemistry from the same university, under the supervision of Edda Adler de Graschinsky. After being selected for the The Pew Charitable Trusts, Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences in 1991, Elgoyhen left Argentina to begin her post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyajit Mayor
Satyajit Mayor (born 1963) is an Indian biologist. He serves as director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. Mayor is the former director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) at Bangalore which has a focus on the study of stem cell and regenerative biology. In 2012, Mayor won the Infosys Prize for life sciences for his study of regulated cell surface organization and membrane dynamics. Education Mayor studied chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and was awarded his PhD in life sciences from The Rockefeller University, New York. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University, where he developed tools to study the trafficking of membrane lipids and GPI-anchored proteins in mammalian cells using quantitative fluorescence microscopy. Research Mayor started his laboratory at NCBS in 1995 after the completion of his post-doctoral research at Columbia University. "The broad aim of Prof Mayor’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partha Pratim Majumder
Partha Pratim Majumder ( bn, পার্থ প্রতিম মজুমদার; born 18 January 1954) is a Bangladeshi mime artist who is considered the "forerunner" of mime art in Bangladesh. Born in Pabna District in the north-western part of the country, Partha went to France in early 1980s under a scholarship program and trained under Marcel Marceau. Since then he has been performing in several countries throughout the world earning international recognition. In 2010, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak, one of the highest civilian awards in Bangladesh. In 2011, the French government awarded him the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the elder brother of musician Bappa Mazumder and music composer Partha Sharothi Mojumdar. Early life Partha was born to Himangshu Kumar Bishwash and Shusrika Bishwash in Kalachadpara of Pabna district which was then part of East Pakistan. Born as Premanshu Kumar Biswas, Partha was later adopted by Ustad Barin Mazumder a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
