TWAS Prize

TWAS Prize
Awarded by The World Academy of Sciences
Type Science award
Category International
Description
Description A bronze rectangular plaque embedded on a red base
Medal Citation
Plaque
Statistics
First awarded 1985
Last awarded 2016
Total awarded 242
Cash award US$ 15000
Previous name(s) TWAS Awards in Basic Sciences (till 2003)
Award rank
 TWAS-Lenovo Science Prize

TWAS Prize is an annual award instituted in 1985 by The World Academy of Sciences to recognize excellence in scientific research in the global South.[1][note 1] At inception, the award was titled TWAS Awards in Basic Sciences and was awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics categories but was merged with the TWNSO (Third World Network of Scientific Organizations) Prizes in Applied Sciences in 2003 to form the present-day TWAS Prize, which is awarded in nine categories viz. Agricultural Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Medical Sciences, Physics and Social Sciences.[2] The award carries a plaque and a cash prize of US$ 15000[3] and is open to scientists living and working in a developing country.[4]

The World Academy of Sciences
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a global science academy headquartered at the premises of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. The academy, founded in 1983, promotes science and engineering for sustainable prosperity in the developing world.[5] It was originally named TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world at inception but was renamed as The World Academy of Sciences in 2004.[6]

List of recipients

Category Year started Total recipients First recipient
Agricultural Sciences Sciences
2003
18
Fu Ting-Dong
Biology
1986
39
Mysore A. Viswamitra
Chemistry
1985
40
Leopoldo De Meis
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui[note 2]
Earth Sciences
2003
16
Kaigala Venkata Subbarao
Engineering Sciences
2003
18
Mayra de la Torre
Mathematics
1985
34
Liao Shan Tao
Medical Sciences
1988
35
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Physics
1985
38
E. C. G. Sudarshan
Social Sciences[note 3]
2014
4
Ayşe Buğra
Zheng Xiaoying[note 2]
Male recipients = 216
Female recipients = 26[note 4]

Agricultural Sciences

Year Recipient Country
2003Fu Ting-DongChina
2004Mohammad J. MalakoutiIran
2005Alex E. Bustillo PardeyColombia
2006Heong Kong-LuenPhilippines
2007Muhammad ArshadPakistan
2008Jei-Fu ShawChina
2009Huey Lang YangTaiwan
2010Francisco Alfonso Larqué Saavedra[note 5]Mexico
2010Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov[note 5]Uzbekistan
2011Segenet Kelemu[note 5]Ethiopia
2011Zeyaur Rahman Khan[note 5]India
2012Jun Yu[note 5]China
2012Egamberdieva Dilfuza[note 5]Uzbekistan
2013Yong-Guan ZhuChina
2014Fusuo ZhangChina
2015Jagdish LadhaIndia
2015Feng-Min LiChina
2016Ismail CakmakTurkey

Biology

Year Recipient Country
1986Mysore A. ViswamitraIndia
1987Adolfo Martinez-PalomoMexico
1988Francisco José BarrantesArgentina
1990Eduardo H. RapoportArgentina
1991Ramon R. LatorreChile
1992Tsou Chen-LuChina
1993Luis Rafael Herrera-EstrellaMexico
1994Armando J. ParodiArgentina
1995Carlos S. Andreo[note 6]Argentina
1995Carlos Eduardo G. da Rocha Miranda[note 6]Brazil
1996Juan Carlos Castilla Zenobi[note 6]Chile
1996Asis Datta[note 6]India
1997Francisco Bolívar ZapataMexico
1998Gabriel GuarnerosMexico
1999Raghavendra GadagkarIndia
2000Alberto C. FraschArgentina
2001Avadhesha SuroliaIndia
2002Wang Zhizhen (Chih-Chen)China
2003Rafael Palacios de la LamaMexico
2004Jorge KalilBrazil
2005Yang Huanming[note 6]China
2005Jerson L. Silva[note 6]Brazil
2006Pedro E. León AzofeifaCosta Rica
2007Lúcia Mendonça PreviatoArgentina
2008Carlos Arias Ortiz[note 6]Mexico
2008Susana López Charretón[note 6]Mexico
2009Lin He[note 6]China
2009Partha Pratim Majumder[note 6]India
2010Satyajit Mayor[note 6]India
2010Soo-Chen Cheng[note 6]Taiwan
2011Ana Belén Elgoyhen[note 6]Argentina
2011Valakunja Nagaraja[note 6]India
2012Ann-Shyn ChiangTaiwan
2013Xu Guoliang[note 6]China
2013Sue Duan Lin-Chao[note 6]Taiwan
2014Marcelo RubinsteinArgentina
2015Maria Isabel ColomboArgentina
2016Amitabha Chattopadhyay[note 6]India
2016Zhou Qi[note 6]China

Chemistry

Tessy María López Goerne
Year Recipient Country
1985Leopoldo De Meis[note 7]Brazil
1985Salimuzzaman Siddiqui[note 7]Pakistan
1986Saad S.M. HassanEgypt
1987Chuang-Tian ChenChina
1988Sukh DevIndia
1990Mohammed Hilmy ElnagdiEgypt
1991Otto Richard GottliebBrazil
1992Manapurathu Verghese GeorgeIndia
1993Animesh Chakravorty[note 7]India
1993Giuseppe Cilento[note 7]Brazil
1994Padmanabhan Balaram[note 7]India
1994Huang Yao-Zeng[note 7]China
1996Enrique J. BaranArgentina
1996Henrique Eisi TomaBrazil
1997Reuben Jih-Ru HwuChina
1998Biman BagchiIndia
1999Darshan RanganathanIndia
2000Gautam Radhakrishna DesirajuIndia
2001Kimoon KimKorea
2002Peng Shie-MingChina
2003Eluvathingal Devassy JemmisIndia
2004Miguel A. BlesaArgentina
2005Krishna N. GaneshIndia
2006Che Chi-MingChina
2007Kankan BhattacharyyaIndia
2008Dongyuan ZhaoChina
2009Li-Jun Wan[note 7]China
2009Swapan Kumar Ghosh[note 7]India
2010Yang Dan[note 7]China
2010Santanu Bhattacharya[note 7]India
2011Jairton Dupont[note 7]Brazil
2011Lei Jiang[note 7]China
2012Xiao-Ming Chen[note 7]China
2012Swapan K. Pati[note 7]India
2013Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh[note 7]India
2013Chung-Yuan Mou[note 7]Taiwan
2014Xie YiChina
2015Pi-Tai ChouTaiwan
2015Tessy María López GoerneMexico
2016Zhao YuliangChina

Earth Sciences

Year Recipient Country
2003Kaigala Venkata SubbaraoIndia
2004Adolpho J. MelfiBrazil
2005Zhu RixiangChina
2006Rengaswamy RameshIndia
2007Paulo ArtaxoBrazil
2008Sun JiminChina
2009Rafael Navarro GonzálezMexico
2010Anil Kumar Gupta[note 8]India
2010Alexander Kellner[note 8]Brazil
2011S. K. Satheesh[note 8]India
2011Wu Fuyuan[note 8]China
2012Patrick George ErikssonSouth Africa
2013Li XiaChina
2014Sun-Lin ChungTaiwan
2015Piao ShilongChina
2016Mario HamuyChile

Engineering Sciences

Carlos Artemio Coello Coello
Year Recipient Country
2003Mayra de la TorreMexico
2004Li AizhenChina
2005Mauricio TerronesMexico
2006Chang Chun-YenChina
2007Chih-Kung LeeTaiwan
2008Ashutosh SharmaIndia
2009Chen Liang-GeeTaiwan
2010Vivek Borkar[note 9]India
2010Edgar D. Zanotto[note 9]Brazil
2011Lin Yi-bingTaiwan
2012Abdul Latiff Ahmad[note 9]Malaysia
2012Kalyanmoy Deb[note 9]India
2013Indranil Manna[note 9]India
2013Mohammad Ahmad Al-Nimr[note 9]Jordan
2014Kumaran Viswanathan[note 9]India
2014Chih-Yuan Lu[note 9]Taiwan
2015Upadrasta RamamurtyIndia
2016Carlos Artemio Coello CoelloMexico

Mathematics

Year Recipient Country
1985Liao Shan TaoChina
1986Mauricio M. PeixotoBrazil
1987Mudambai Seshachalu NarasimhanIndia
1988Jacob PalisBrazil
1990Wu Wen-TsunChina
1991Madabusi S. RaghunathanIndia
1992Manfredo do CarmoBrazil
1993Chang Kung-ChingChina
1994Ricardo MañéBrazil
1995Ibrahim A. Eltayeb[note 10]Sultanate of Oman
1995Carlos Segovia[note 10]Argentina
1996César Leopoldo Camacho[note 10]Brazil
1996K. R. Parthasarathy[note 10]India
1998Marcelo VianaBrazil
1999Servet MartinezChile
2000Weiping ZhangChina
2001Sundararaman RamananIndia
2002José Antonio de la PeñaMexico
2003Welington Celso de MeloBrazil
2004Long YimingChina
2005Parimala RamanIndia
2006Claudio LandimBrazil
2007Shrikrishna G. DaniIndia
2008Vasudevan SrinivasIndia
2009Enrique PujalsBrazil
2010Manindra Agrawal[note 10]India
2010Carlos Gustavo Moreira[note 10]Brazil
2011Shun-Jen Cheng[note 10]Taiwan
2011Patricio Luis Felmer[note 10]Chile
2012Fernando Codá MarquesBrazil
2013Artur AvilaBrazil
2014Ya-xiang YuanChina
2015Alicia DickensteinArgentina
2016Lorenzo Justiniano Diaz CasadoBrazil

Medical Sciences

Year Recipient Country
1988Manuel Elkin PatarroyoColombia
1990Sérgio Henrique FerreiraBrazil
1991Leonidas de Mello Deane[note 11]Brazil
1991Maria José von Paumgartten Deane[note 11]Brazil
1992Juan Carlos FascioloArgentina
1993Etim Moses EssienNigeria
1994Suhayl J. JabburLebanon
1995Dorairajan Balasubramanian[note 11]India
1995Iván Antonio Izquierdo[note 11]Brazil
1996Bhola Nath DhawanIndia
1997Eduardo H. Charreau[note 11]Argentina
1997Charles O.N. Wambebe[note 11]Nigeria
1998Felix Konotey-AhuluGhana
1999Esper A. CavalheiroBrazil
2000Rabia HussainPakistan
2001Rodolfo R. BrennerArgentina
2002Ranulfo RomoMexico
2003Mayana ZatzBrazil
2004Shiv Kumar SarinIndia
2005Shah M. FaruqueBangladesh
2006Jacinto ConvitVenezuela
2007Sérgio Danilo Junho PenaBrazil
2008Salim Abdool KarimSouth Africa
2009Ricardo GazzinelliBrazil
2010Gabriel Adrián RabinovichArgentina
2011Alberto KornblihttArgentina
2012Quarraisha Abdool Karim[note 11]South Africa
2012George Gao[note 11]China
2013Mei-Hwei Chang[note 11]Taiwan
2013Turgay Dalkara[note 11]Turkey
2014Irene Oi Lin NG[note 11]China
2014Tse Wen Chang[note 11]Taiwan
2015Eduardo Arzt[note 11]Argentina
2015Ge Ri-Li[note 11]China
2016Zulfiqar Ahmed BhuttaPakistan

Physics

Year Recipient Country
1985E. C. G. SudarshanIndia
1986Zhao Zhong-xianChina
1987Cesar Mansueto Giulio LattesBrazil
1988Govind SwarupIndia
1990Tirupattur V. RamakrishnanIndia
1991Francisco de la CruzArgentina
1992Narendra KumarIndia
1993K.H. Kuo (Kexin Guo)China
1994Girish S. AgarwalIndia
1995Ramanath Cowsik[note 12]India
1995Jayme Tiomno[note 12]Brazil
1996Fan Hai-fu[note 12]China
1996Enrique Tirapegui[note 12]Chile
1997Luis F. Rodríguez[note 12]Mexico
1997Ashoke Sen[note 12]India
1998B. Sriram ShastryIndia
1999Nai-ben MingChina
2000Ajay Kumar SoodIndia
2001Luiz DavidovichBrazil
2002Deepak DharIndia
2003Rodolfo GambiniUruguay
2004Spenta R. WadiaIndia
2005Wang EngeChina
2006Dipankar Das SarmaIndia
2007Zhang JieChina
2008Predhiman Krishan Kaw[note 12]India
2008Ali Chamseddine[note 12]Lebanon
2009Gao Hongjun[note 12]China
2009Nathan Berkovits[note 12]Brazil
2010Xue QikunChina
2011Thanu PadmanabhanIndia
2012Juan Pablo PazChina
2013Rajesh Gopakumar[note 12]India
2013Marcos Pimenta[note 12]Brazil
2014Daniel de FlorianArgentina
2015Sandip Trivedi[note 12]India
2015Zhou Xingjiang[note 12]China
2016Shiraz MinwallaIndia

Social Sciences

Year Recipient Country
2014Rajah RasiahMalaysia
2015Ayşe Buğra[note 13]Turkey
2015Zheng Xiaoying[note 13]China
2016Marilda SotomayorBrazil

See also

Notes

  1. Please see North-South divide
  2. 1 2 Shared prize
  3. Social Sciences Prize is also known as TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize
  4. Maria José von Paumgartten Deane was the first women recipient of the Prize
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Shared prize in Agricultural Sciences
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Shared prize in Biology
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Shared prize in Chemistry
  8. 1 2 3 4 Shared prize in Earth Sciences
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shared prize in Engineering Sciences
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shared prize in Mathematics
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Shared prize in Medical Sciences
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Shared prize in Physics
  13. 1 2 Shared prize in Social Sciences

References

  1. "Recipients of TWAS Awards and Prizes". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  2. "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  3. "TWAS Prizes". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  4. "TWAS 2016 Prizes". OWSD South African National Chapter. 2016.
  5. "TWAS, the voice for science in the South". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
  6. Li, Jiao. "TWAS changes name, but not its mission". SciDev.Net. scidev.net. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
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