National and International Awards in 2013

Awards:

Allard Prize for International Integrity : Anna Hazare

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards 2013:

Biological Science : Dr. Santhees Chukkurumbal Raghavan, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore.

Chemical Sciences: Dr. Yamuna Krishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences, (TIFR) UAS-GKVK, Bangalore.

Engineering Sciences: Dr. Bikramjit Basu, Materials Research Centre, IISC, Bangalore ; Dr. Suaman Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Kharagpur

Mathematical Sciences: Dr. Eknath Prabhakar Ghate, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tata Institute of Foundational Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Medical Sciences: Dr. Pushkar Sharma, National Institute of Immunology (NIIT), New Delhi.

Physical Science: Dr. Amol Dighe, Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai and Dr Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy, Department of Physics, IISC, Bangalore.

The United Nations Champion of the Earth Award: Veerabhadran Ramanathan for his research and climate action work on reducing black carbon emissions.

The Man Booker International Prize 2013 : Lydia Davis

Nobel Prizes 2013

Medicine:

James E. rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof " for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"

Physics:

Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs " For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"

Chemistry:

Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel " For the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"

Literature:

Alice Munro " For Master of the contemporary short story"

Peace: