Awards – India/International

BP Paul Centenary Award to – MS Swaminathan
Commander of Agriculture Award by France to – MS Swaminathan
Rajiv Gandhi Outstanding Leadership Award 2006 – MS Swaminathan ?? (please anybody confirm)
Saha Maitreyi award by Combodian Govt on Rice Research and Development to – MS Swaminathan
MS Swaminathan award for leadership in Agriculture – GS Kush
Jugde’s Prize for Newspaper Category 2005 – P Sainath, Hindu Editor for Rural Affairs
(Also called Harin Chappin Media Award)
Prem Bhatia memorial award for excellence in political reporting to Pallavi ayyer – Hindu correspondent in china
Mother Teresa International and Millennium Award 2005 – Shiekh Hasina
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International Gandhi Peace Prize : By the GOI from 1995
1995 – Julius Nyerere (First President of Tanzania)
1996 – AT Ariyaratne
1997 – Gerhard Fischer (Anti Leprosy Campaign, former Germany Ambassador to India)
1998 – Ramakrishna Mission
1999 – Baba Amte
2000 – Nelson Mandela and Grameen Bank
2001 – John Hume (Irish Politician)
2002 – Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
2003 – Vaclav Havel
2004 – Corretta Scott King (Widow of Martin Luther King)
2005 – Desmond Tutu
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Legion D Honor to – Rajendre K Pachiru for his contributions in Environmental Sustenable Dev.
Hon. Doctorate Degree from Harward Univ – 2001 for her contribution to Under Privileged Children – Elaa Bhatt (SEWA) – Gujarat
Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award – Nirmala Deshpande
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Ramon Magsasay Award –
Govt Service – CD Deshmukh, Kiran Bedi, TN Seshan, JM Lyngdoh
Public Service – Jayaprakash Narayan, MS Subbalakshmi, Manibhai Desai, Baba Amte, Lakshmi Chand Jain, Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, Mahesh Chander Mehta, V Shanta
Community Leadership – Vinoba Bhave, Veghese Kurien, Dara Khurodi, Tribhuvandas Patel, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, MS Swaminathan, Ela Bhatt, Mabelle Arole, Rajikanth Arole, Pramod Karan Sethi, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Pandurang Sastri Athavale, Aruna Roy, Rajendra Singh, Shanta Sinha
Journalism, Literature and Creative Arts – Amitabha Choudary, Satyajith Raj, Boobli George Verghese, Sombhu Mitra, Gour Kishore Ghosh, Arun Shourie, RK Laxman, KV Subbanna, Ravi Shankar, Mahaswetha Devi
Peace and International Understanding – Mother Teresa, Jockin Arputham, Laxminarayan Ramdas
Emergent Leadership – Sandeep Pandey, Arvind Kejriwal
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International Cosmos Prize – Dr Raman Sukumar for striving harmonious co-existence of nature and mankind

39th Gnanapith Award to – Marathi writer, Vinda Karadikar

Sangeet Ratna Award has been started in memoir of Ustad Bismillah Khan by the UP GOvt
Sangeet Kalanidhi by Music Academy – Madurai Seshagopalan, Carnatic Vocalist

Winner of Right Livelihood award for social upliftment – Swami Agnivesh (he started the Bharat Nav Nirman Maha Abhiyan)

Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration – Javed Akhtar for 2005
Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai – Shanti Swarup Bhatnakar Award

Indira Gandhi Raj Bhasha Award to – Atish Agarwal

Indira Gandhi Paryavarana award to – Malayala Manorama for 2004 for its work “Pala Thulli”
GMOD award for innovation in ST – kota hari narayanan – designing light commercial aircraft
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Nobel Prize:

According to the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and started in 1901 by the Nobel Foundation
The economics prize was started in 1968 by the Sweden central bank in memory of Alfred Nobel and is not a Nobel prize and called Sveriges Riskbank Prize in Economic sciences and the first prize was awarded in 1969
Award ceremony on dec 10th, the birth anniversary of Alfred Nobel at Stockholm Concert Hall by the King of Sweden
Only the peace prize ceremony is held at the norwegian nobel institute or the university of Oslo
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences – responsible for Physics, Chemistry, Economics
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska University – for Medicine
The Swedish Academy – for Literature
The Norwegian Nobel committee – for Peace prize
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated five times for the award between 1937 and 1948 but never won it

Madam Curie – won twice in 1903 for discovery of Radioactivity in physics and in 1911 for isolation of pure radium in chemistry
Linus Pauling for hybridized orbital theory in 1954 in chemistry and in 1962 for peace for Nuclear test ban activism
John Bardeen – in 1956 in physics for the invention of transistor and in 1972 in physics for the theory of superconductivity
Frederick Sanger – in chemistry in 1958 for the structure of insulin molecule and in 1980 in chemistry for virus nucleotide sequencing

Otto Warburg was prevented by the Nazi government from accepting his second nobel prize for medicine in 1944

International Red Cross got the nobel prize for peace three times in 1917, 1944 and 1963

The curie family claims the most nobel prizes:
Madam Curie – 2
Pierre Curie – physics in 1903
and Joliot Curie , daughter of them – chemistry – 1935

William Lawrence Bragg is the youngest to get a nobel prize at the age of 25. he got it for physics in 1915

Nobel Prize for 2006:
Physics – John C Mather and Gerge Smoot
Chemistry – Roger D Kornberg
Medicine – Andrew Fire and Craig Mellow
Economics – Edmund S Phelps
Literature – Orhan Pamuk
Peace – Grameen Bank and Mohammud Yunus
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Man Booker Prize:

Started in 1968 as Booker Mc Conneel prize by the company Booker Mc Connel and in 2002, it was transferred to Man group and Booker Prize foundation and hence Man Booker prize

Booker of Booker prize award given in 1993 to Salman Rushdie for his work Midnight’s children for the 25 yr of existence

Prize for fiction for best original full length novel written in english by a citizen of commonwealth of nations or the republic of ireland

1981 – Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s children

1997 – Arundhati Roy – The God of small things

2006 – Kiran Desai – The Inheritence of Loss

1971 – VS Naipal – In a Free State – but not of India list though he is of Indian origin

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