Awards

Lenovo, a global Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial, and enterprise technology has partnered with TWAS to launch a high-level prize to give international recognition and visibility to individual scientists in the developing world for their outstanding scientific achievements. The Prize carries a monetary award of US $ 100,000 provided by Lenovo, as well as a medal and a certificate highlighting the recipient's major contributions to science.

This Prize is named after TWAS Founding Fellow and former president Prof. C.N.R. Rao. It is initiated to honour TWAS Fellows from the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), who have made significant contributions to global science. It carries a cash award of US $ 5,000 generously provided by Professor Rao.

The TWAS Prizes are awarded to individual scientists from developing countries in recognition of scientific research achievement of outstanding significance for the development of scientific thought and/or outstanding contribution to the application of science and technology for sustainable development. Candidates for this Prize must be scientists who have been working and living in a developing country for at least 10 years prior to their nomination.

The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, presented every year by the World Food Prize Foundation, is endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation in honour of Nobel Peace Prize winner and World Food Prize founder, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug. This $10,000 award recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in the field of international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40. The Award is presented in a ceremony during World Food Prize Week events in Des Moines, Iowa, on or near World Food Day, October 16.

The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for outstanding work and intellectual achievement in the world to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The Prizes are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.

Longitude Prize, a challenge with a prize fund of £10 million, has been launched to help solve one the greatest issues of our time: the rise of antibiotic resistance. The prize has been developed and is being run by Nesta, the UK?s innovation foundation. The prize was announced by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2013 and a public vote was launched on BBC in May 2014, and the antibiotics challenge emerged the winner.

This award is given in recognition of international cooperation in Science & Technology and for contributions to public understanding of Science. Scientists from all nations are eligible for consideration. The award was first given in 1990. The award carries a plaque and a citation. The name of the awardee is announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Academy.

The award is to be given to a Astronomer / Astrophysicist of international recognition. Scientists from all nations are eligible for consideration. The award consists of a bronze Medal, an honorarium of Rs. 25,000/- and a citation. In the case of the award being given to a foreign Scientist, the international airfare would be met and he/she would be provided with cash equivalent of the honorarium in US dollars. The award was established in 1985 from an endowment by the mother of late Dr. Manali Vainu Bappu, an eminent Astronomer and a Fellow of the Academy.

The Fields Medal is awarded every 4 years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians in recognition of outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and showing promise of future achievement. The Fields Medal Committee is chosen by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union and is normally chaired by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) President. The Committee is asked to choose at least two, with a strong preference for four, Fields Medalists, and to have regard in its choice as to represent a diversity of mathematical fields.

The Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries has been awarded annually since 2005. It was originally instituted by ICTP, the Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund, and IMU. The participation of the Abel Fund ended in 2012. DST, Govt. of India has agreed to fund the Prize for a 5 year period, starting with the 2014 Prize. The Prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age and who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country in any branch of Mathematical Sciences.