CNN-IBN brings you stories of outstanding individuals who have excelled in their fields of work and have been awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize for 2012 for their pioneering work in the fields of science, literature, economics, history and mathematics. ...
04:14 PM, Jan 05, 2013
What gives desserts their texture? Or what makes paints durable? For Dr Ashish Lele, the answers lie at the microscopic level. At the National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, he has been exploring how molecular structures influence the properties of soft materials. ...
11:43 AM, Jan 05, 2013
The youngest person to win Infosys Prize for Mathematical Sciences for 2012 is a mathematics wizard Dr Manjul Bhargava. While many fear mathematics, Dr Bhargava came up with a mathematical formula at a mere age of eight. ...
10:30 AM, Jan 04, 2013
A novelist, poet, literary critic and musician - Amit Chaudhari is a man who defies labels. He was 13 when his poems were first published but strangely he was a shy poet. "I for one was not cool at all. I hated school and was miserable there but I soon discovered that this was one of the few things that gave me pleasure," he says. At age 24, he wrote...
09:55 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Bangalore: Infosys on Friday announced winners of Infosys Prize 2012 for outstanding research in six categories. Ashish Lele of National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, bagged the award in the Engineering and Computer Science category while Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) bagged the prize in the Social Sciences category. Two researchers won in the Humanities category - Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California) won the prize for History and Amit Chaudhuri (University...
06:42 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Bangalore: Dr Sriram Ramaswamy won the Infosys Prize 2011 for Physical Sciences. He used his knowledge of theoretical physics to crack a question commonly asked in biology. Thanks to his research, we now have answers to some of the mysteries of the laws of nature. How does a flock of birds move in perfect harmony? Or a herd of animals? Dr Sriram Ramaswamy replied, "There is this Hindi word 'bhedchaal',...
10:00 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Hyderabad: Dr Imran Siddiqi's research on hybrid plants can ensure enough food for millions of Indians. He has also won the Infosys Prize for 2011 in Life Sciences. Dr Imran Siddiqi isn't fooled by appearances. India's green revolution gave food to millions. But many of the plants in Dr Siddiqi's research are hybrids with different breeds crossed together, to ensure a bumper yield. But if one takes seeds from such...
08:54 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Bangalore: 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,...
08:10 PM, Nov 16, 2011
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05:48 PM, Jan 16, 2011
New Delhi: Amita Baviskar, who has won Infosys Science Prize for social sciences, learnt first hand how projects like the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River rob entire population of their very reason and means to live. Dams are very big business and about 15-20 per cent of any project is allegedly pocketed as bribes, commissions to various people in the official hierarchy, politicians as well as bureaucrats. But...
06:32 PM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: Anthropologist Nandini Sundar, who won the Infosys Prize 2010, has been studying and raising awareness about the problems of tribals - particularly those caught in the crossfire between the naxals and the government. She also teaches sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Nandini Sundar teaches sociology. Sundar is of the view that sociology helps you to put things into context. She says that people think that their...
09:41 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Small is beautiful, says nano-technologist Ashutosh Sharma. The things he builds under a microscope could one day give tiny cell phone batteries, a cure for cancer which is why he has been awarded the Infosys Science Prize for this year. "A nano-technologist has nothing to do with the Tata Nano. But we do work with very small things, things 10,000 times smaller than a human hair," says Ashutosh Sharma. He...
12:15 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Small is beautiful, says nano-technologist Ashutosh Sharma. The things he builds under a microscope could one day give tiny cell phone batteries, a cure for cancer which is why he has been awarded the Infosys Science Prize for this year. "A nano-technologist has nothing to do with the Tata Nano. But we do work with very small things, things 10,000 times smaller than a human hair," says Ashutosh Sharma. He...
12:15 PM, Jan 04, 2011
New Delhi: Dr Chetan Chitnis has won the Infosys prize for his work on one of the first vaccines against malaria. Belonging to a family of scientists, Dr Chintis was the topper in Physics at IIT Mumbai before moving towards Biology. Every year malaria kills thousands around the globe but now his vaccine could save their lives. Malaria parasite invades red blood cells where they multiply, so first they have...
09:05 AM, Jan 03, 2011
