Prof. Ashutosh Sharma Dr. Chetan E. Chitnis Prof. Chandrashekhar B. Khare Engineering and Computer Science Life Sciences Mathematical Sciences
Prof. Sandip Parimal Trivedi Prof. Nandini Sundar Prof. Amita Baviskar Physical Sciences Social Sciences – Social Anthropology Social Sciences – Sociology
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The Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust, was set up in February 2009 by the Infosys management. The Foundation instituted the Infosys Prize, an annual award, to honor outstanding achievements of researchers and scientists across five categories: Engineering and Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences, each carrying a prize of `50 Lakh.
The award intends to celebrate success and stand as a marker of excellence in scientific research.
A jury comprising eminent leaders in each of these fields comes together to evaluate the achievements of the nominees against the standards of international research, placing the winners on par with the finest researchers in the world. “The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have labored, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge, ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.”
C. V. Raman 1888 – 1970 Physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the ‘Raman effect’
Infosys Prize 2010 Engineering and Computer Science The Infosys Prize 2010 for Engineering and Computer Science is awarded to Ashutosh Sharma for his fundamental contributions to mechanics, materials and manufacturing on small scales including self-organization and instabilities, nano-patterning and functional multiscale interfaces.
Ashutosh Sharma Institute Chair Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Infosys Prize 2010 Scope and impact of work Citation by the Infosys Prize Professor Sharma is an engineering Engineering and Computer Professor Sharma obtained a scientist whose work lies at the Science Jury Bachelor's degree in Chemical intersections of chemical and Engineering from Indian Professor Sharma has made scholarly Institute of Technology, Kanpur material sciences and engineering, scientific contributions in the broad (IITK) (1982), a Master's physics, and nanotechnology. areas of self-organized micro and degree from the Pennsylvania The focus of his work lies in nano-scale surface pattern evolution, State University (1984) probing how chemical and surface instabilities, the dynamics and a Ph.D. from the State physical properties of surfaces, of thin liquid and solid films and University of New York at interfaces and materials, especially mechanics of confined soft matter. Buffalo (1987), where he was a at micrometer and nanometer These scientific studies have research faculty until he joined length scales, influence the provided fundamental contributions IITK in 1990. He became evolution of structures and patterns. to the fields of surfaces and a full professor in 1997 and Professor Sharma has conducted interfaces, self-assembled patterns, was the Head of the Chemical very elegant and quantitative wetting, adhesion, structure Engineering department from experiments in combination with 2003 to 2006. Currently, he evolution, nanocomposites, and theory and simulations that have meso-scale hydrodynamics. is an Institute Chair Professor provided critical insights into how and Coordinator of the self-organized structures form, their Professor Sharma's work also has Nanosciences Center at IITK. stability and properties which, in important applications in micro Professor Sharma is a recipient turn, address important connections and nano-fabrication, patterning, of numerous awards including between chemical synthesis, physical energy storage, filtration, micro- the 2010 Kapitsa Medal of the fabrication and function. electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) Russian Academy of Natural and optoelectronics. His research, Sciences, 2008 TWAS Prize, The research he conducted carried out entirely in India, has 2007 Distinguished Alumnus has important applications in combined elegant experiments with Award of IIT Kanpur, 2007 diverse areas such as micro and theory and simulation, and has been Homi Bhabha Award, 2006 nano-fabrication, energy storage, widely published and cited in major Bessel Research Award of the filtration, micro- and nano-scale international journals. Humboldt Foundation, and the functional materials and devices, 2002 SS Bhatnagar Prize. He and optoelectronics. His work is an elected Fellow of TWAS provides an excellent illustration of (The Academy of Sciences for how research at the intersections of the Developing World) and a traditional disciplines can provide Fellow of many of the renowned scientific and engineering discoveries academies of science and of practical significance. engineering in India. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Chemical Engineering Science, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering.
Infosys Prize 2010 Life Sciences The Infosys Prize 2010 for Life Sciences is awarded to Chetan E. Chitnis for his pioneering work in understanding the interactions of the malaria parasite and its host, leading to the development of a viable vaccine for malaria.
Chetan E. Chitnis Principal Investigator – Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi
Infosys Prize 2010 Scope and impact of work Dr. Chitnis's work provides an Dr. Chitnis's work is focused on excellent example of how cutting Dr. Chitnis completed his understanding the molecular basis edge basic research that improves Master of Science in Physics of host-parasite interactions that our understanding of biological at the Indian Institute of are involved in the invasion of red processes underlying pathogenic Technology, Bombay, Master blood cells by malaria parasites. mechanisms in an infectious disease of Arts in Physics from Rice Plasmodium vivax and the related can be combined effectively with University, Houston and simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium translational research to develop Ph.D. in Biophysics from knowlesi, are completely dependent urgently needed interventions. the University of California, on interaction with the Duffy The scientific community Berkeley. Dr. Chitnis was a blood group antigen for invasion has expressed optimism that Visiting Fellow at the National of human erythrocytes. Dr. Chitnis Dr. Chitnis's efforts to develop Institutes of Health, Bethesda has used a variety of modern malaria vaccines will succeed and and joined the International approaches to study the function of provide immense health benefits Centre for Genetic Engineering erythrocyte-binding proteins from by protecting millions living in and Biotechnology (ICGEB), malaria parasites. He has done some endemic regions against malaria. New Delhi, as a Staff Research very elegant structure-function Scientist, where he is currently studies to analyze their interactions Citation by the Infosys Prize a Principal Investigator with the with host receptors providing Life Sciences Jury Malaria Research Group. crucial insights into these critical Each year, there are nearly 100 Dr. Chitnis is a Fellow of the host-parasite interactions. These million cases of Plasmodium vivax Indian Academy of Sciences, studies have helped build the malaria worldwide. Dr. Chitnis is Bangalore, and winner of the rationale for malaria vaccines based credited with building the rationale Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award on the parasite proteins. for a malaria vaccine based on an in Medical Sciences. He was an erythrocyte-binding protein on the Dr. Chitnis established a pilot International Research Scholar malaria parasite that binds to the recombinant protein production of Howard Hughes Medical Duffy protein on the host blood cell facility at the International Centre Institute, USA, an International to mediate invasion. Dr. Chitnis's for Genetic Engineering and Senior Research Fellow of The work helped in narrowing the region Biotechnology (ICGEB) that has Wellcome Trust, UK and is of association and led to the design been used to develop methods to currently a Tata Innovation of vaccines that can elicit antibodies produce recombinant protein-based Fellow of the Department of to prevent this association and malaria vaccines. Pre-clinical studies Biotechnology, India. infection. Based on this work, with vaccine candidates produced in clinical trials on vaccines that target the pilot facility have demonstrated malaria parasites are underway and that the recombinant antigens elicit offer hope for the development of a high titer antibodies that inhibit viable vaccine. erythrocyte binding and block growth of diverse parasite variants. The first generation malaria vaccine candidates developed at ICGEB are currently being tested in Phase I safety trials.
Infosys Prize 2010 Mathematical Sciences The Infosys Prize 2010 for Mathematics is awarded to Chandrashekhar B. Khare for his fundamental contributions to Number Theory, particularly his solution of the Serre conjecture.
Chandrashekhar B. Khare Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Infosys Prize 2010 Scope and impact of work Citation by the Infosys Prize One of the most profound Mathematical Sciences Jury Professor Khare was born and discoveries of 18th Century brought up in Mumbai, India. Number Theory is one of the central mathematics, by Gauss, was that After completing his early areas of mathematics that often there exists a geometric construction education in India, he went to establishes connections between of a regular 17-gon by ruler and analysis, algebra and geometry. the University of Cambridge, compass (i.e., there is a way to UK, for undergraduate studies Historically, such connections subdivide the circle into 17 equal can be traced back to the work of which he completed in 1989. parts) but there is no 19-gon. Professor Khare completed his the great Indian mathematician How is 17 different from 19? Srinivasa Ramanujan, who graduation from California In fact, Gauss discovered a deeply Institute of Technology, where discovered completely new number- hidden symmetry, which cannot be theoretic aspects of modular forms, he worked with Haruzo Hida at grasped just by looking at a circle in University of California at Los and whose ideas eventually led to the plane. This insight completely the modern revolution in Number Angeles (UCLA) and Dinakar transformed mathematics. Indeed, Theory. Ramakrishnan (at Caltech) on much of modern research is a search Number Theory. for such ‘hidden symmetries’. The Serre conjecture, formulated by Jean-Pierre Serre, one of the After obtaining his Ph.D. from Serre's conjecture is about the greatest living mathematicians Caltech in 1995, he returned analysis of symmetries such as the and winner of the Abel Prize, to India to work at the Tata ones coming from elliptic curves, postulates one such connection Institute of Fundamental rather than circles. They play an between modular forms and Research. In 2005, he moved important role in, for example, representations of Galois groups. to the United States, first to the elliptic curve cryptography. The conjecture is strong enough to University of Utah and then The analogs of regular ‘n’-gons are imply, among other things, Fermat's to UCLA, where he is now so called ‘n’-torsion points on these last theorem, a problem that had Professor of Mathematics. curves and the symmetries obeyed by these points are incredibly rich remained unsolved for more than Professor Khare received the and sophisticated. As ‘n’ varies, three hundred years until it was 2007 Fermat prize and the they begin to form analytic objects, solved by Andrew Wiles a few years Guggenheim Fellowship in accessible by techniques from back. Partly in collaboration with 2008. He was an invited speaker deformation theory and geometry. Wintenberger, Professor Khare at the International Congress settled the Serre conjecture in the of Mathematicians, held at Professor Khare's resolution of affirmative. Professor Khare's work Hyderabad in August 2010. Serre's conjecture opened new and is a major breakthrough in the field unexpected passages between with many spectacular consequences different subfields of mathematics. It and the new ideas introduced in it has already changed our perception are expected to dominate the field of the fabric of pure mathematics for years to come. and has stimulated intense efforts to build highways along these passages. By its force and ingenuity, it stands out as one of the most remarkable accomplishments of our time.
Infosys Prize 2010 Physical Sciences The Infosys Prize 2010 for Physical Sciences is awarded to Sandip Parimal Trivedi for finding an ingenious way to solve two of the most outstanding puzzles of Superstring Theory simultaneously: What is the origin of dark energy in the Universe? Why is there no massless scalar particle?
Sandip Parimal Trivedi Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Infosys Prize 2010 Scope and impact of work Citation by the Infosys Prize Theoretical physics is a branch Physical Sciences Jury Professor Trivedi completed his of physics which employs Master of Science in Integrated Professor Trivedi has made mathematical models and Physics in 1985 from the important and original abstractions of physics in an attempt Indian Institute of Technology, contributions to several areas of to explain natural phenomena. Kanpur and received his Ph.D. theoretical physics. In recent years, The goal is to rationalize, explain from the California Institute a large community of physicists and predict physical phenomena. of Technology, Pasadena in has pursued the possibility of Professor Trivedi's research led to 1990. He went on to acquire achieving a unified account of all important connections between professional training as a Post the known forces of physics — String Theory, Cosmology and Doctoral Research Associate including gravity as well as the Particle Physics. In particular, he has at the Institute for Advanced strong, electromagnetic, and weak made significant contributions to Study, Princeton, New Jersey interactions — using the concepts the study of Superstring Cosmology, until 1992. of Superstring Theory. But it Flux Compactifications, Black had proved difficult to construct Professor Trivedi has been Hole Physics and Supersymmetry solutions for the equations of awarded numerous prizes Breaking. Superstring Theory that did not including the 2005 Shanti contain massless particles of a kind The goal of theoretical physics Swarup Bhatnagar Award not observed in nature (‘moduli is to produce conceptual models in Physical Sciences. He has problem’), and that describes an that explain and predict natural been a Fellow of the Indian accelerating or inflating universe, phenomena. Physicists have Academy of Science since which is required by cosmological achieved a remarkably powerful, 2005. Currently, he is a observations. Through an ingenious accurate and complete description Professor at the Tata Institute of construction that introduced several of the fundamental laws governing Fundamental Research (TIFR) theoretical innovations, Professor an enormous range of phenomena, in the Theoretical Physics Trivedi showed that these difficulties culminating in the so-called Department, Mumbai and are connected, and can be overcome ‘Standard Model’. So far, this pursues research in the fields simultaneously. His work has model has passed every experiment of String Theory, Cosmology revolutionized this field and forms successfully. The model invokes and Particle Physics. He also the basis of much ongoing research four fundamental forces (gravity, serves as a member of the throughout the world. electromagnetism, and strong and Program Advisory Board of weak nuclear forces) and several the International Center for distinct building-blocks of matter. Theoretical Sciences, TIFR. However, the model has conceptual difficulty in describing extreme gravitational fields that might be encountered in early universe or in the interiors of a black hole. Superstring Theory aims at unifying all the fundamental forces and solving the mysteries of gravity.
Infosys Prize 2010 Social Sciences – Social Anthropology The Infosys Prize 2010 for Social Sciences – Social Anthropology is awarded to Nandini Sundar in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding analyst of social identities, including tribe and caste, and the politics of knowledge in modern India.
Nandini Sundar Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
Infosys Prize 2010 Scope and impact of work Her ability to address different Professor Sundar's career has been audiences has allowed her to engage Professor Sundar obtained a characterized by an exceptional in public and policy spheres in India Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, ability to combine the study of the while making major contributions Politics and Economics from most important problems in the to social scientific scholarship at the Oxford University in 1988 sociology of India, including those highest international level. and a Master of Arts, a Master of caste, tribe, state and economy, of Philosophy and a Ph.D. in with issues that have emerged as Citation by the Infosys Prize Anthropology from Columbia objects of social-scientific interest Social Sciences Jury University in 1989, 1991 and in more recent times, such as 1995, respectively. Professor Sundar is one of the the study of violence, subaltern leading social anthropologists in Professor Sundar is the co-editor identities and moral culpability. South Asia. She has made major of India's flagship sociology Professor Sundar's work has had and original contributions to our journal, Contributions to Indian major impact on a new generation understanding of environmental Sociology, along with Professor of young scholars of sociology and struggles, of the impact of central Amita Baviskar. She is associated anthropology working in India, as and state policies on tribal politics, with several governing well as in Europe and USA, and is a and of the moral ambiguities boards of academic journals, significant bridge between the social associated with subaltern political government committees and sciences based on Indian data and movements in contemporary non-governmental organizations fieldwork and international debates India. These contributions are in various capacities, working about theory and methodology. anchored in her deep grasp of the on issues related to the At the same time, her work brings legacies of colonial rule for cultural environment, tribal rights and the highest scholarly standards politics in contemporary India, discrimination/exclusion. and impartiality to controversial and in a theoretically innovative subjects in which, social scientists understanding of the relationship She is currently a Professor in encounter the conflicting interests of of major historical events to and the Chairperson of the policy-makers, activists and political persistent structural tensions in Department of Sociology at the parties. Indian society. Professor Sundar Delhi School of Economics, has placed her detailed studies of Professor Sundar's published works and Dean of the Faculty of tribal politics in Central India in include: Subalterns and Sovereigns: Social Sciences. She has held the broader frame of studies of the An Anthropological History of visiting positions at Paris, Yale, law, bureaucracy and morality in Bastar, and Legal Grounds: Natural Michigan, Cambridge and modern India. In doing so, she has Resources, Identity and the Law in Chandigarh universities. She combined innovative empirical Jharkhand. Her research interests was awarded the M. N. Srinivas and ethnographic methods and are wide and include citizenship, Memorial Prize of the Indian cutting-edge approaches to those war and counterinsurgency in Sociological Society in 2002-03, sociological debates which link South Asia, indigenous identity and the L. M. Singhvi Visiting the study of social change in politics, the sociology of law, social Fellowship at Cambridge in modern India to central debates in inequality, and intellectual history. 2003 and the Hughes Visiting comparative social theory. Fellowship at Michigan in 2005.
Infosys Prize 2010 Social Sciences – Sociology The Infosys Prize 2010 for Social Sciences – Sociology is awarded to Amita Baviskar in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding analyst of social and environmental movements in modern India.
Amita Baviskar Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Infosys Prize 2010 Scope and impact of work justice, equality and participation, Throughout her scholarly career, an area of inquiry in which India Professor Baviskar received her Professor Baviskar has shown an is perhaps the world's leading Bachelor of Arts and Master ability to combine sympathy for the sustained democratic experiment. of Arts degrees in Economics social movements, revolving around and Sociology respectively environment and development of Citation by the Infosys Prize from the University of Delhi Indian society and politics, with a Social Sciences Jury in 1986 and 1988. Professor critical perspective of their dynamics Baviskar then obtained a Ph.D. Professor Baviskar is widely and ideology. Professor Baviskar's in Development Sociology from recognized as the premier sociologist work is notable for spanning both Cornell University in 1992. of social movements involving rural and urban transformations environment and development She is currently an Associate and actions across multiple scales in contemporary India. This is a Professor of Sociology at the ranging from the nation-state to the remarkable accomplishment in view Institute of Economic Growth village and city slums. Her concept of the fact that the mobilization of in Delhi. She has held visiting of cultural politics deepens the civil society beyond the boundaries positions at Yale, Stanford, conventional understanding of social of State and of routine party Berkeley, the London School action by showing how interests and politics has had a bigger impact of Economics and Cornell. ideologies are formed in the course in India than in most major She has received numerous of collective practice and how their democracies. Professor Baviskar has awards, including the 2008 complex interaction with dominant brought the richest combination VKRV Rao Prize for Social ideas and institutions often produces of comparative, theoretical and Science Research, the 2005 unintended effects. methodological skills to our Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for understanding of the dynamics Professor Baviskar has published distinguished contributions to of these social phenomena. Her several books: In the Belly of Development Studies, and the studies have shown how major the River: Tribal Conflicts over 2004 Srinivas Memorial Prize. government interventions for rural Development in the Narmada Valley; and urban development in India Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics Her research interests include often adversely affect the ability of of a Natural Resource; Contested environmental politics with a socially disadvantaged groups to Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture focus on conflicts over cultural secure access to natural resources, and Power; and Elite and Everyman: meanings and resources, social livelihoods and democratic rights. The Cultural Politics of the Indian movements, the anthropology Her published work offers us Middle Classes. These have had of development, urban studies, a wonderful lens into the rich major impact on social scientists, state formation and the complexity of social movements activists and policy-makers in India environment in South Asia. that challenge dominant views and beyond. This has been in part of environment-society relations Professor Baviskar is the due to the original insights of her and that strive to create a more co-editor of India's flagship arguments and also her ability to democratic, equitable and just sociology journal, Contributions address audiences across disciplinary society. to Indian Sociology, along with boundaries. Her work meets the Professor Nandini Sundar. highest international standards in the study of social movements for
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Prof. Subra Suresh Prof. Inder Verma Prof. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan Subra Suresh is the Vannevar Inder Verma is Irwin and Joan Jacobs Srinivasa Varadhan is a Professor of Bush Professor of Engineering at Chair in Exemplary Life Sciences and Mathematics and Frank J. Gould Massachusetts Institute of Technology. the American Cancer Society Professor, Professor of Science at the Courant He has been elected to the US National Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Academy of Engineering, American Institute for Biological Studies. He is New York University. He is a winner Academy of Arts and Sciences, Indian one of the world's leading authorities of the 1994 Birkhoff Prize, the 1995 National Academy of Engineering, on the development of viruses for gene Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of Indian Academy of Sciences, Royal therapy vectors. He is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New Spanish Academy of Sciences, Academy National Academy of Sciences USA, York University, the 1996 Leroy Steele of Sciences of the Developing World, Institute of Medicine and Foreign Prize and the 2007 Abel Prize. He also Italy, and German National Academy fellow of Indian National Academy of has honorary degrees from the Université of Sciences. He is a recipient of the science. The Vilcek Foundation named Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (2003), 2006 Acta Materialia Gold Medal, Professor Verma as the recipient of from the Indian Statistical Institute, 2007 European Materials Medal, its 2008 prize in biomedical science. Kolkata (2004) and from the Chennai 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society Professor Verma was the winner Mathematical Institute (2008). of Engineering Science, and a Senior of 2010 Pasarow award in Cancer Humboldt Research Prize from research. He has also been conferred Jurors Germany. the 1998 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Outstanding Investigator Award. Prof. Maxim Kontsevich Professor at Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Jurors France Jurors Prof. Pradeep K. Khosla Prof. E. Weinan Dean of the College of Engineering, and the Philip Dr. Didier Trono Professor, Department of Mathematics and Program and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Professor of Genetics and Virology and Dean of in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Mellon University, USA the School of Life Sciences, Swiss Institutes of Princeton University, USA Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn Prof. David Mumford Director at Max Planck Institute for Computer Dr. Carol Prives University Professor in the Division of Applied Science, Germany Da Costa Professor of Biology in the Department of Mathematics at Brown University, USA Biological Sciences at Columbia University, USA Prof. Choon Fong Shih Prof. C. S. Sheshadri President, King Abdullah University of Science and Prof. Mriganka Sur Director of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Technology (KAUST) and Professor, Mechanical Paul E. Newton Professor of Neuroscience, Head of Engineering, KAUST, Saudi Arabia the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Director of the Simons Initiative on Autism Prof. Terry Speed Dr. R.A. Mashelkar and the Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Head of Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia President of Global Research Alliance and CSIR Technology, USA and Professor, Department of Statistics of the Bhatnagar Fellow, India Prof. Rudolf Jaenisch University of California, Berkeley, USA Member of Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Gurudev Khush Adjunct Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
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Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni Prof. Amartya Sen Shrinivas Kulkarni is the John D. and Amartya Sen is Lamont University Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Professor and Professor of Economics Astronomy and Planetary Science at and Philosophy at Harvard University. the California Institute of Technology He won the 1998 Nobel Prize in (Caltech). He is the Director of the Economics. His other awards include Caltech Optical Observatories which the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian includes the Palomar Observatory honor awarded by the President of and the WM Keck Observatory, India, the Senator Giovanni Agnelli Hawaii. He has been awarded the Alan International Prize in Ethics, the T. Waterman Prize of the National Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Science Foundation (NSF), a fellowship Award, the Edinburgh Medal, the from the David and Lucile Packard Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico Foundation, a Presidential Young (Grã-Cruz), the Presidency of the Investigator award from the NSF, the Italian Republic Medal, the Eisenhower Helen B. Warner award of the American Medal, Honorary Companion of Astronomical Society and the Janksy Honour (UK), and the George C. Prize of Associated Universities, Inc. Marshall Award. Professor Kulkarni is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Jurors Technology, Delhi. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Prof. Arjun Appadurai Arts and Sciences (1994), Fellow of Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, the Royal Society of London (2001) and Communication, Steinhardt, New York University, USA and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2003). Prof. Alaka Basu Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University, USA and Visiting Professor at the Centre Jurors for Social Medicine and Community Health at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Prof. Dan McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University, UK Prof. André Béteille National Research Professor and Professor Emeritus Prof. T. V. Ramakrishnan of Sociology at the University of Delhi, India Hindustan Lever Research Professor, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Prof. Dipankar Gupta Varanasi; Distinguished Associate, Centre for Professor of Sociology (till July 2009) at the Condensed Matter Theory, Indian Institute of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Science, India Prof. Nur Yalman Prof. Frank Wilczek Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Anthropology, Harvard University, USA Prof. Harry B. Gray Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and the Founding Director of the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, USA Infosys Prize 2010 Trustees
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Infosys Prize 2010 The Infosys Science Foundation Securing India's scientific future
The Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust, was set up in February 2009 by the Infosys management. The Foundation instituted the Infosys Prize, an annual award, to honor outstanding achievements of researchers and scientists across five categories: Engineering and Computer Science, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences, each carrying a prize of `50 Lakh.
The award intends to celebrate success and stand as a marker of excellence in scientific research.
A jury comprising eminent leaders in each of these fields comes together to evaluate the achievements of the nominees against the standards of international research, placing the winners on par with the finest researchers in the world. Prof. Amita Baviskar Social Sciences – Sociology
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