Each winner will get Rs 65 lakh, a 22 karat gold medallion, and a citation certificate from the Infosys Science Foundation.
The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) today announced six winners of the Infosys Prize 2016 in the categories of Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences.
The prize for each category consists of a purse of Rs 65 lakh, a 22 karat gold medallion, and a citation certificate, the Foundation said.
The winners of the Infosys Prize 2016 are: (1) Engineering and Computer Science: Prof. V Kumaran, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore; (2) Humanities: Prof.
Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of History, Harvard University; (3) Life Sciences: Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Executive Director of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad; (4) Mathematical Sciences: Prof. Akshay Venkatesh, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University; (5) Physical Sciences: Dr. Anil Bhardwaj, Director, Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and (6) Social Sciences: Prof. Kaivan Munshi, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
The Awards Ceremony for the Infosys Prize 2016 will be held on January 7, 2017, in Bengaluru, where Prof Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society and Nobel Prize Laureate will felicitate the winners, the Foundation said in a statement.
The winners were shortlisted from over 250 nominations by a jury panel, comprising renowned scientists and professors, it said.
The jury chairs of the six categories are: Prof Pradeep K Khosla (University of California San Diego) for Engineering and Computer Science; Prof Amartya Sen (Harvard University) for Humanities; Dr Inder Verma (Salk Institute of Biological Sciences) for Life Sciences; Prof Srinivasa S R Varadhan (New York University) for Mathematical Sciences; Prof Shrinivas Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology) for Physical Sciences; and Prof Kaushik Basu (Cornell University) for Social Sciences.
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