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India to conduct VAIBHAV Summit
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to inaugurate VAIBHAV Summit on October 2, 2020. VAIBHAV is Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit. Highlights The summit is an initiative by Science and technology experts spread all over the world and working in academic organisations of India. It enables a deliberation on thought process and research and development culture focusing ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs • Summits and Conferences
Topics: annual summit • Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan • Non-residents • Research and Development • Scientists • VAIBHAV Summit
CSIR and Nature India launched Nature India Essay Competition 2020
With an aim to provide a platform for sharing ideas on how societally-impactful science can advance and strengthen the country for young and experienced scientists, researchers and authors in India, The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Nature India have launched the Nature India essay competition 2020 on Thursday 9th January 2020. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Topics: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) • Essay • Nature India • Nature India essay competition 2020 • Scientists
UK issues new ‘black hole’ coin in honour of Stephen Hawking
The UK’s Royal Mint has recently issued a new commemorative 50 pence coin inspired by the late legendary British physicist Stephen Hawking’s seminal work on black holes. The coin was designed by British engraver and printmaker Edwina Ellis. The purpose of the commemorative coin is to celebrate the life and “ground-breaking” achievements of Hawking, who ..
Topics: Coin • Commemorative coin • England • Fifty pence • Hawking • Physicists • Royal Mint • Scientists • Stephen Hawking
Breakthrough Listen Project (BLP)
BLP is US$100-million global astronomical initiative launched in 2015 by Internet investor Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. It has teams from around the world to find signs of intelligent life in universe. The 10-year programme aims to survey 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth by scanning entire galactic plane of Milky Way. It will listen for ..
Topics: Cosmologists • Galactic plane • Galaxy • Milky Way • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Scientists • Stephen Hawking • Yuri Milner
6 Indian-origin scientists elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society for 2012
Royal Society (RS): Founded in 1660 to recognise, promote and support excellence in science, has over the years awarded the Fellowship to nearly approximately 1,450 individuals, including Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton and Tim Berners-Lee. The Fellowship is made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2012
Topics: Fellows of the Royal Society • Knights Bachelor • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Scientists • Serre conjecture • Shankar Balasubramanian • Tejinder Virdee • Varinder Aggarwal • Vidyasagar
Nobel Prize – Chemistry
The winners of Nobel prize 2009 are Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , United States, Thomas A. Steitz United States, Ada E. Yonath Israel “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu He is a structural biologist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the Medical Research Council ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2009
Topics: Ada • Ada Yonath • Current Affairs 2009 • Howard Hughes Medical Investigators • Laboratory of Molecular Biology • Learned societies • Nobel laureates • Ramakrishnan • Ribosome • Scientists • Steitz • Thomas A. Steitz • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan