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ORISSA REFERENCE ANNUAL - 2004 UNESCO KALINGA PRIZE List of Prize Winners YEAR NAME OF THE AWARDEE COUNTRY 1952 Louis de Broglie France 1953 Julian Huxley United Kingdom 1954 Waldemar Kaempffert USA 1955 Augusto Pi Suner Venezuela 1956 George Gamow USA 1957 Bertrand Russel United Kingdom 1958 Karl von Frisch F.R. Germany 1959 Jean Rostand France 1960 Ritchi Calder United Kingdom 1961 Arthur C. Clarke United Kingdom 1962 Gerald Piel USA 1963 Jagjit Singh India 1964 Warren Weave USA 1965 Eugene Rabinovitch USA 1966 Paul Coudero France 1967 Fred Hoyle United Kingdom 1968 Gavin de Beer United Kingdom 1969 Konrad Lorenz Austria 1970 Margaret Mead USA 1971 Pierre Augier France 1972 Philip H. Abelson USA Nigel Calder United Kingdom 1973 Nil - 1974 Jose Reis Brazil Louis Estrada Mexico 1975 Nil - 1976 George Porter United Kingdom Alexander Oparin Erstwhile USSR 1977 Fernand Seguin Canada 538 ORISSA REFERENCE ANNUAL - 2004 YEAR NAME OF THE AWARDEE COUNTRY 1978 Hoimar Von Ditfurth F.R.Germany 1979 Sergei Kapitza USSR 1980 Aristide Bastidas Venezuela 1981 David F. Attenborough United Kingdom Dennis Flanagan USA 1982 Oswaldo Prota-Pessoa Brazil 1983 Abdullah Ai Muti Sharafuddin Bangladesh 1984 Yves Coppens France Igor Petryanov USSR 1985 Sir Peter Medawar United Kingdom 1986 Nicolai G. Rasov USSR David Suzuki Canada 1987 Marcel Roche Venezuela 1988 Bjorn Kurten Finland 1989 Saad Ahmed Shabaan A.R.of Egypt 1990 Misbah-Ud-Din Shami Pakistan 1991 Radu Ittimovici Romania Narender K. Sehgal India 1992 Jorge Flores Valdes Mexico 1993 Piero Angela Italy 1994 Nikolai N.Drozdov Russia 1995 Julieta Fierro Gossman Mexico 1996 Jiri Grygar Czech Rep Jayant V. Niarlikar India 1997 Dorairajan Balaslubramanian India 1998 Ennio Candotti Brazil Ms. Regina Paz Lopez Philippines 1999 Prof. Marian Ewurama Addy Ghana Prof. Emil Gebrielian Armenia 2000 Prof. Ernst W. Hamburger Brazil 2001 Prof. Stefono Fontani Italy 2002 Mrs. Marisela Salvatierre Venezuela 2003 Prof. P.A. Hoodbhoy Pakistan 2004 Prof. M. Oderez France 539.

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