Awards in science practice questions

Alfred Nobel established Nobel Prizes

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite

Originally 5 categories: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace

Economics prize added in 1968 (first awarded 1969)

Awarded in Stockholm (except Peace in Oslo)

Peace Prize awarded in Oslo, Norway

Awarded on December 10 (Nobel’s death anniversary)

C.V. Raman won Physics Nobel in 1930

C.V. Raman won Nobel Prize in Physics 1930

Raman won for Raman Effect (scattering of light)

Hargobind Khorana won Medicine Nobel 1968

Khorana won Nobel in Physiology/Medicine 1968

Khorana won for genetic code interpretation

S. Chandrasekhar won Physics Nobel 1983

Chandrasekhar won for stellar evolution

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won Chemistry Nobel 2009

Ramakrishnan won for ribosome structure

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won 2023 Medicine Nobel

Won for mRNA vaccine technology

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won 2020 Chemistry

Won for CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

Aspect, Clauser, Zeilinger won 2022 Physics

Won for quantum entanglement experiments

SSB is India’s highest science award

SSB Prize instituted in 1957

CSIR gives SSB Prize

CSIR stands for Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

SSB has 7 categories

SSB prize money is Rs 5 lakh

Infosys Prize is for science and research

Infosys Prize started in 2008

Infosys Prize is $100,000

Breakthrough Prize is for fundamental science

Breakthrough Prize is $3 million

Funded by Zuckerberg, Brin, Milner, etc.

Fields Medal is for mathematics

Fields Medal awarded every 4 years

Fields Medal for mathematicians under 40

Manjul Bhargava (Indian origin) won 2014

Abel Prize is for mathematics

Abel Prize first awarded 2003

Turing Award is for computer science

Turing Award instituted 1966

Turing Award is $1 million

Bengio, Hinton, LeCun won 2018 Turing

Won for deep learning

Lasker Award is for medical research

Lasker Award is called American Nobel

Kyoto Prize is Japanese award for science and arts

Kyoto Prize established 1984