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  UNESCO Science Prizes - Regulations for the Award of the Kalinga Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science was created by UNESCO in 1951 following a donation from Mr Bijoyanand Patnaik, Founder and President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.
The Prize rewards an individual who has distinguished him- or herself during a brilliant career as writer, editor, lecturer, film producer, radio/television programme director or presenter, through his/her talent in interpreting science and technology for the general public.
During his/her stay in India, the Kalinga Prize winner is encouraged to interact with the Indian scientific community, with young students and with the public at large to convey their personal message in science popularisation.
www.unesco.org /science/ips/science_prizes/kalinga_regulations.htm   (480 words)

  
 UNESCO's International Prizes in Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an international distinction created by UNESCO in 1952 following a donation from Mr Bijoyanand Patnaik, Founder and President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.
Under the terms of the Prize, the recipient receives the sum of two thousands pounds sterling and a UNESCO Albert Einstein Silver Medal.The recipient is also awarded the Ruchi Ram Sahni Chair, introduced by the Government of India in 2001 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kalinga Prize.
The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is administered by the Science Alanysis and Policies Division.
www.unesco.org /science/ips/science_prizes/kalinga_science_prize.html   (639 words)

  
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Among the prizes he won are the John Von Neumann Prize in 1986, the Prize of Japan in 1991, the Harvey Prize from Technion in 1991, the Daedalon Gold Medal for Science and Technology from Greece in 1991, and W T et Idalia Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1998.
The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Sun-Yung Alice Chang for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold.
She was awarded the S V Kovalevsky prize in 1992, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn on 13 May 2002, and the Golden Lomonosov Medal, the Ioffe Medal, and the St Petersburg University Medal in 2003.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=prize*&CONTEXT=1   (15844 words)

  
 UNESCO - UNESCO awards Science Prizes on World Science Day
The 2003 Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is awarded to Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, a nuclear and high-energy physics specialist at the Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad (Pakistan.).
The Kalinga Prize, established by the Kalinga Foundation Trust (India), is awarded every year to encourage dialogue between scientists and the general public.
The Javed Husain Prize was established by UNESCO in 1984 with a generous donation by Professor Javed Husain of India.
portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php@URL_ID=17154&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (847 words)

  
 Kalinga Prize
Normally, one prize is awarded every year; exceptionally the prize is split ex aequo or not awarded at all.
The prize consists of the Diploma and silver medal of Albert Eistein or Niels Bohr plus the sum of 1,000 British pounds.
The Prize is given to the laureate[s] in Delhi, India in the year following the announcement of the award.
www.astro.cz /~grygar/kalinga-laureats.htm   (97 words)

  
 rediff.com: Kalinga award may be scrapped
The Kalinga Award may be discontinued as its jury feels that the award money is too meagre to have any international significance.
Biju Patnaik had instituted the prestigious award for science and technology and the onus is on his son Naveen to keep it alive after half a century.
In 1991, the jury had written to the trust that with only a thousand pounds as prize money, the award was losing its standing and to make it prestigious the money should be substantially hiked.
www.rediff.com /news/2001/jan/11kal.htm   (285 words)

  
 Prize winners, pulitzer prize 2002, pulitzer prize fiction
Prize winners The first prize winner was the Australian Lance Coburn (aged 28).
Prize winners The European IST Prize is awarded at the end of the year.
The Nobel Prize Winners Channel are the inventors who have been recognized for their work by this prestigious annual prize to encourage their work which.
www.correspondence-course.net /prize/prize_winners.html   (942 words)

  
 UNESCO-IHE - Alumni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Descartes Prize aims to raise awareness of the scientific achievements of European scientists, highlighting the benefits of working together and the importance of the results achieved.
The aim of the prize is to reward the efforts of innovative scientists, academics and organisations carrying out applied research in the water resources sector worldwide.
The Prize is awarded to an institution, organization, individual or company that has contributed substantially to water preservation and enhancement through applied research or direct action.
www.ihe.nl /alumni/award.htm   (618 words)

  
 Prix UNESCO
The biennial UNESCO Science Prize rewards a person or group of persons for an outstanding contribution they have made to the technological development of a developing Member State or region through the application of scientific and technological research (particularly in the fields of education, engineering and industrial development).
Candidates for the Prize are proposed to the Director-General of UNESCO by governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commission for UNESCO, and by appropriate non-governmental organizations which have consultative status with UNESCO, each of which is entitled to nominate one candidate.
Candidates for the biennial Prize are proposed to the Director-General of UNESCO by governments of Members States, in consultation with the National Commissions for UNESCO, by intergovernmental organizations or by international non-governmental organizations having formal relations with UNESCO.
www.unesco.ch /organ-f/preise_frame.htm   (1387 words)

  
 EBSCOhost Search Result   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The above is the text of an address delivered by Bertrand Russell, on receiving the Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, at UNESCO Headquarters on 28 January 1958.
The Kalinga Prize is doing a great public service in encouraging those who attempt this difficult task.
In my own country, and to a lesser degree in other countries of the West, "culture" is viewed mainly, by an unfortunate impoverishment of the Renaissance tradition, as something concerned primarily with literature, history and art.
members.valley.net /~brs/kalinga.html   (583 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
New Delhi, Feb. 26: The Pakistani winner of Unesco’s £2,000 Kalinga award still awaits the customary invitation from India to spend three to four weeks here talking to young scientists, speak at universities and exchange ideas with the local scientific fraternity.
The Kalinga prize is awarded for popularisation of science.
To mark 50 years of the Kalinga award, the government has since 2001 invited the winner to visit India and meet a cross section of the scientific community as well as science students.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040227/asp/nation/story_2942710.asp   (396 words)

  
 Kalinga - Definition, explanation
Kalinga is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon.
Prior to 1995, Kalinga and Apayao used to be a single province named Kalinga-Apayao, until they were split into two to better service the needs of individual native tribes in the provinces.
The Kalinga ethnoarchaeological project was established in 1973.
www.calsky.de /lexikon/en/txt/k/ka/kalinga.php   (460 words)

  
 Prizes Encyclopedia Articles @ Recognized.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
See List of prizes, medals, and awards for articles that might belong in here.
There are 11 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
List of prizes, medals, and awards in Singapore
www.recognized.org /encyclopedia/Category:Prizes   (170 words)

  
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These prizes were announced at the closing of the three-day World Science Forum in Budapest (Hungary) on 10 November coincided with the celebration of World Science Day.
The Carlos J Finlay Prize is made possible by a grant from the government of Cuba and is named after a prominent 19th century Cuban biologist.The Javed Husain Prize for Young Scientists has been awarded to Ravi Silva of Sri Lanka, Professor of Solid State Electronics at the University of Surrey (United Kingdom).
The Centre for Ecology is a unit of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) which, for decades has not only generated a wealth of scientific knowledge in the field of tropical ecology, but has systematically and successfully disseminated this knowledge to professionals and the general public through education, training and awareness raising.
www.un.org.pk /unic/newsletters/NEWSLETTER031111.htm   (2093 words)

  
 UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The winner of the Prize must have had a distinguished career as writer, editor, lecturer, radio/television programme director or film producer which has enabled him to help to interpret science, research and technology to the public.
The  Kalinga Prize-winner is named by the Director-General of UNESCO on the recommendation of a Jury of four members designated by him.
Every year the Director-General of UNESCO shall invite the National Commissions of Member States to nominate one candidate Bach, on the recommendation of the national associations for the advancement of science or other science associations, or national associations of science writers or scientific journalists.
www.education.nic.in /htmlweb/KALINGAPRIZE.htm   (544 words)

  
 Prince_Louis-Victor_Pierre_Raymond_de_Broglie - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
For this he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929.
In an event unique in the history of the Académie, he was received as a member by his own brother Maurice, who had been elected in 1934.
UNESCO awarded him the first Kalinga Prize in 1952 for his work in popularizing scientific knowledge, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London on 23 April 1953.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Prince_Louis-Victor_Pierre_Raymond_de_Broglie   (889 words)

  
 Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1986, Clarke provided a grant to fund the prize money (initially £1,000) for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in Britain in the previous year.
In 2001 the prize was increased to £2001, and its value now matches the year (e.g., £2005 in 2005).
In 1988, he was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome and has since needed to use a wheelchair.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke   (2871 words)

  
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His greatest honor was being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1929 (Louis de Broglie).
Among publications on many topics he published work on Dirac's theory of the electron, on the new theory of light, on Uhlenbeck's theory of spin, and on applications of wave mechanics to nuclear physics.
Other honours which he received included the Kalinga Prize which was awarded to him by UNESCO in 1952 for his efforts towards the understanding of modern physics by the general public (Flato).
home.earthlink.net /~gurkha711/debroglie.doc   (810 words)

  
 Biographies - CERN
Other honours, which he received, included the Kalinga Prize, which was awarded to him by UNESCO in 1952.The French National Scientific Research Centre awarded him its gold medal in 1956.
He was nominated for a Nobel Prize On the 1st October 1990 John Bell died of a stroke.
Klaus Böckmann was born in Bonn in 1929.
library.cern.ch /archives/bio/index.php?tri=date_debut&mot=   (2728 words)

  
 Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The prize was given away by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
The kalinga Prize 2000 will be awarded at a function in New Delhi on the 26th of February, 2001.
The Kalinga Prize was established in 1951 by UNESCO at the generous initiative of Late Shri Biju Patnaik, Founder Chairman of the Kalinga Foundation Trust and is given as International recognition for Science Popularisation.
www.netguruindia.com /information/awards.html   (1080 words)

  
 Sir Fred Hoyle
He is a joint proponent of the Steady-State model of the Universe, and in collaboration with Chandra Wickramasinghe he has pioneered the modern theory of panspermia.
Amongst the numerous awards and distinctions bestowed on him are the UN Kalinga Prize, 1968, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In 1997 he was awarded the highly prestigious Crafoord Prize by the the Swedish Academy in recognition of outstanding basic research in fields not covered by the Nobel prize.
www.coseti.org /hoyle.htm   (222 words)

  
 Excelsior... Nation
Ernnst W. Hamburger of the University of Sao Paulo has been selected for the prestigious Kalinga Prize 2000 for popularising science in Brazil.....
The project aims at socialising and educating young out-of-school children through the use of personal computers at the centre, and with the help of specialised educators.
The Kalinga prize, established in 1951 by UNESCO, is given as an international recognition for science popularisation.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01feb25/national.htm   (2667 words)

  
 Kalinga award announced
Prof Dorairajan Balasubramanian, director of the Centre for Cellular and Microbiology, Hyderabad, has been selected for 1997 Kalinga award for his extensive work as a science columnist and journalist for daily newspapers, writer and presenter of programmes on a wide range of science subjects for television and author of science books.
The Kalinga prize was established at the initiative of the late chief minister of Orissa and founder chairman of the Kalinga Foundation Trust, Biju Patnaik.
Many of the prize winners have been scientists in their own right, while others have been trained in journalism or have been educators or writers.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19971217/35155223.html   (243 words)

  
 BENPRES HOLDINGS CORPORATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Regina Paz Lopez, managing director of ABS-CBN Foundation, shared the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for 1998 with Brazil-based Italian physicist Ennio Candotti in awards rites recently held in New Delhi.
The UNESCO Kalinga Prize - established in 1951 -- is presented annually in recognition of the awardee's "outstanding contribution to the interpretation of science and technology to the general public." The UNESCO director general selects the prizewinner out of nominations received from member states, on the recommendation of a four-member international jury.
Patnaik's father, Buji, founded the Kalinga Foundation Trust and initiated the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 1951.
www.benpres-holdings.com /press-41399.shtml   (302 words)

  
 United Nations Daily Highlights, 97-02-10
Also high on the agenda during the two-week session will be types of crimes over which the court would have jurisdiction and the relationship between the legal authority of the proposed court and the political authority of the Security Council.
Czech astronomer Jiri Grygar and Indian astrophysicist Jayant V. Narlikar are the laureates of the 1996 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of Science.
The Kalinga Prize for the Popularisation of Science, worth one thousand pounds sterling, has been awarded every year since 1951 to scientists, writers, editors, lecturers, radio and television programme directors, film producers and others whose work has promoted the popularisation of science, research and technology among the general public.
www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/world/undh/97-02-10.undh.html   (1298 words)

  
 Arthur C. Clarke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
His numerous honors include several doctorates in science and literature, the Gold Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Marconi Fellowship, the Charles A. Lindbergh Award, the UNESCO-Kalinga Prize, the Distinguished Public Service Medal (NASA's highest civilian award), and the Special Achievement Medal of the Association of Space Explorers (the astronauts' and cosmonauts' exclusive organization).
He has had long-time interests in underwater exploration and is a director of the Colombo-based Underwater Safaris.
In 1989, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his "services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka." In 1994 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1945 insights that led to the development of orbiting communication satellites.
mitpress.mit.edu /e-books/Hal/foreword/author.html   (223 words)

  
 UNESCO Employment/Fellowships/Prizes
UNESCO confers a number of prizes to individuals and associations all over the world.
Each prize awards accomplishments that strengthen and exemplify one or many of UNESCO's goals.
Prize nominations and appropriate material should be received by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO forty days or more before the prize deadline, such that that prize can be reviewed by the Commission.
www.state.gov /p/io/unesco/programs   (751 words)

  
 Awards - CIRS
Nathan Reingold Prize (Formerly Ida & Henry Schuman Prize)
Prizes of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Prizes of the Presidents of the Academies of Sciences of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine
www.cirs-tm.org /prix/nomeng.php?typ=General   (152 words)

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