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Abhijit Banerjee wins 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for study on poverty

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer have jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Mr Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ..

Topics: Abhijit Banerjee • Awards • Center for Global Development • Development economists • Economics • Economists • Elinor Ostrom • Esther Duflo • Fellows of the Econometric Society • Guggenheim Fellows • MacArthur Fellows • Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Karen Uhlenbeck recipient of 2019 Abel Prize for mathematics

Prof. Karen Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin has become first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious international mathematics awards. The award is sometimes called the Nobel Prize of mathematics. She has been awarded the 6 million Norwegian kroner ($700,000) prize for her work in the fields ..

Topics: Abel Prize • Awards • Guggenheim Fellows • Karen Uhlenbeck • Mathematics • Mathematics awards • Niels Henrik Abel • Wolf Prize in Mathematics • Women in physics

Raghu Karnad wins 2019 Windham Campbell Prize

Delhi-based Journalist and author, Raghu Karnad has won the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize under non-fiction category for his debut book ‘The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War’ in London. Hence, Karnad has become the 2nd Indian to receive the prestigious prize, since Jerry Pinto won it for his novel ‘Em And The ..

Topics: American writers • Donald Windham • Em and the Big Hoom • Guggenheim Fellows • Jerry Pinto • Karnad • Raghu Karnad • Sandy Campbell • Windham • Writers • Yale University Library

Ntozake Shange, noted African-American Playwright, poet and author, passes away

Ntozake Shange (70), the noted African-American Playwright, poet and author, has passed away in Maryland, United States on October 27, 2018. Her most acclaimed theatre piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf”, which describe the racism, sexism, violence and rape experienced by seven black ..

Topics: African-American literature • American writers • Betsey • Betsey Brown • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf • Guggenheim Fellows • Liliane • Lost in language & sound • Nappy edges • Ntozake Shange • Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Donald Hall, noted poet passes away

Donald Hall, the award-winning American poet and writer, has passed away in New Hampshire, United States on June 23, 2018. Hall began writing when he was just 12 years old. Over the course of a career that spanned more than seven decades, he wrote more than 40 books, half of which were works of poetry. ..

Topics: American poets • Donald Hall • Guggenheim Fellows • In poetry • Literature • Poet laureate • Poet Laureate of New Jersey • Poets • Robert Frost • Wesley McNair

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly awarded to three US scientists – Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to three US scientists – Rainer Weiss, Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish – for the detection of gravitational waves. The ripples were predicted by Albert Einstein and are a fundamental consequence of his General Theory of Relativity. The winners are members of the ..

Topics: Barry Barish • Gravitational-wave astronomy • Guggenheim Fellows • Kip Thorne • LIGO • Natural sciences • Nobel laureates in Physics • Particle physicists • Physical sciences • Physics • Rainer Weiss