Click to play videoBangalore: The Infosys Prize for 2011 has been announced and the winners include economist Raghuram Govind Rajan, Professor Sriram Rajagopal Ramaswamy, Professor Kannan Soundarajan, Doctor Imran Siddiqui, Professor Kalyanmoy Deb and Doctor Pratap Bhanu Mehta.
The winners, chosen by a jury headed by Prof Amartya Sen, receive a 22-karat gold medallion, a citation certificate and prize money of 50 lakh.
Speaking about the awards, Chairman Emeritus of Infosys, Narayana Murthy, said, "The key objective of the awards is to encourage researchers in science and engineering, which includes social sciences and economics to do world class research."
The Infosys Science Foundation announced the winners, recognising outstanding contributions across five categories of scientific research - Engineering and Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences - on Wednesday.
The jury chairs of the five disciplines are: Prof Amartya Sen for Social Sciences, Prof Shrinivas Kulkarni for Physical Sciences, Prof Pradeep K Khosla for Engineering and Computer Science, Prof SR Varadhan for Mathematical Sciences and Prof Inder Verma for Life Sciences.
The award ceremony for the Infosys Prize 2011 will be held on January 9, 2012 in Bangalore, where former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam will felicitate the winners.
The winners of the Infosys Prize 2011 are: Engineering and Computer Science: Prof Kalyanmoy Deb, Gurmukh and Veena Mehta Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, and the Director of the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, Kanpur, India
Life Sciences: Dr Imran Siddiqi, Scientist and Group Leader, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
Mathematical Sciences: Prof Kannan Soundararajan, Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Mathematics Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
Physical Sciences: Prof Sriram Ramaswamy, Professor, CCMT, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Social Sciences - Economics: Prof Raghuram G Rajan, Eric J Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and the Charles M Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Chicago, USA
Social Sciences - Political Science and International Relations: Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
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