UNESCO KALINGA AWARDS

KALINGA AWARDS

The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people. It was created in 1952, following a donation from Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.

The Kalinga Prize is awarded during the Celebration of the World Science Day in odd years (2003, 2005, etc.) and in New Delhi, India, in even years. Under the terms of the Prize, the recipient receives twenty thousand dollars (20,000 USD) 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.

1950’s Kalinga Prize Laureates

1.     1952 Louis de Broglie – France [1^st recipient of the Kalinga prize]

2.     1953 Julian Huxley – United Kingdom

3.     1954 Waldemar Kaempffert – United States

4.     1955 Augusto Pi Sunyer – Venezuela

5.     1956 George Gamow – United States

6.     1957 Bertrand Russell – United Kingdom

7.     1958 Karl von Frisch – Germany

8.     1959 Jean Rostand – France

1960’s Kalinga Prize Laureates

1.     1960 Ritchie Calder – United Kingdom

2.     1961 Arthur C. Clarke – United Kingdom

3.     1962 Gerard Piel – United States

4.     1963 Jagjit Singh – India

5.     1964 Warren Weaver – United States

6.     1965 Eugene Rabinowitch – United States

7.     1966 Paul Couderc – France

8.     1967 Fred Hoyle – United Kingdom

9.     1968 Gavin de Beer – United Kingdom

10.  1969 Konrad Lorenz – Austria

1970’s Kalinga Prize Laureates

1.     1970 Margaret Mead – United States

2.     1971 Pierre Augier – France

3.     1972 Philip H. Abelson – United States; Nigel Calder – United Kingdom

4.     1973 no award

5.     1974 José Reis – Brazil and Luis Estrada Martinez – Mexico

6.     1975 no award

7.     1976 George Porter – United Kingdom and Alexander Oparin – Russia

8.     1977 Fernand Seguin – Canada

9.     1978 Hoimar von Ditfurth – Germany

10.  1979 Sergei Kapitza – Russia

1980’s Kalinga Prize Laureates

1.     1980 Arístides Bastidas – Venezuela

2.     1981 David Attenborough – United Kingdom and Dennis Flanagan – United States

3.     1982 Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa – Brazil

4.     1983 Abdullah Al Muti Sharafuddin – Bangladesh

5.     1984 Yves Coppens – France and Igor Petryanov – Russia

6.     1985 Peter Medawar – United Kingdom

7.     1986 Nicolai G. Basov – Russia and David Suzuki – Canada

8.     1987 Marcel Roche – Venezuela

9.     1988 Björn Kurtén – Finland

10.  1989 Saad Ahmed Shabaan – Egypt

1990’s Kalinga Prize Laureates

1.     1990 Misbah-Ud-Din Shami – Pakistan

2.     1991 Radu Iftimovici – Romania and Narender K. Sehgal – India

3.     1992 Jorge Flores Valdés – Mexico and Peter Okebukola – Nigeria

4.     1993 Piero Angela – Italy

5.     1994 Nikolai N. Drozdov – Russia

6.     1995 Julieta Fierro Gossman – Mexico

7.     1996 Jiří Grygar – Czech Republic and Jayant V. Narlikar – India

8.     1997 Dorairajan Balasubramanian – India

9.     1998 Regina Paz Lopez – Philippines AND Ennio Candotti – Brazil

10.  1999 Marian Addy – Ghana and Emil Gabrielian – Armenia

2000’s Kalinga Prize Laureates

1.     2000 Ernst W. Hamburger – Brazil

2.     2001 Stefano Fantoni – Italy

3.     2002 Marisela Salvatierra – Venezuela

4.     2003 Pervez Hoodbhoy – Pakistan

5.     2004 Jean Audouze – France

6.     2005 Jeter Bertoletti – Brazil

7.     2006-2008 No awards due to change of UNESCO rules

8.     2009 Yash Pal – India AND Trinh Xuan Thuan – USA-Vietnam

9.     2010 Gokulananda Mohapatra – India

10.  2011 René Raúl Drucker Colín – Mexico

11.  2012 Basanta Kumar Behura – India

12.  2013 Prof. Xiangyi Li