Awards

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1. Assam’s highest civilian award for Ratan Tata

On the occasion of Asom Divas or Assam Day, the state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced to confer the most prestigious 'Asom Baibhav' award to the industrialist Ratan Tata.

2. U.S. maths prize for Nikhil Srivastava

Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize awarded by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “highly original work” in Operator Theory.

3. Balkrishna Doshi receives U.K Royal Gold Medal 2022.

Acclaimed Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been selected for the Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture.

Nobel Prize 2021

Nobel prize 2021 winners were conferred with the prize on 10 December on the birth anniversary of  Alfred Nobel.

Nobel Prize Winner 2021.

Physics 

Syukuro Manabe of Japan  and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Girogio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Giorgio Parisi of Italy 

 “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

Chemistry 

Benjamin List   of Germany and David W.C. MacMillan of Scotland 

- “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

Medicine/Physiology 

David Julius of U.S and Ardem Patapoutian of   U.S 

- “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

Peace 

Maria Ressa  of Philippines and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov of Russia 

Maria Ressa in 2012,   co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism.

Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov was the co-founder of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.Novaya Gazeta is the most independent newspaper in Russia today. 

Literature 

Abdulrazak Gurnah of Britain . He was born in Tanzania, Africa.

His famous works are Paradise, By the Sea,Desertion

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 

David Card of Canada, Joshua D. Angrist  of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland   David Card  got this award - “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”

Joshua D. Angrist   of the U.S and Guido W. Imbens of Holland  for 

 - “ their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”