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Nobel Prize winners in Science (Physics, Chemistry and Medicine) :Year 2009
Charles Kuen (Born 4 November 1933) who is widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication".
Willard Sterling Boyle (born August 19, 1924)is a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.
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George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.
On October 6, they were awarded a one-quarter share each in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor".
Chemistry: 2009
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952 in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India) is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England.
Thomas Arthur Steitz (born August 23, 1940) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Ada E. Yonath (born 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. She become the first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of nine Israeli Nobel laureates, and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan,Thomas Arthur Steitz and Ada E. Yonath were together awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
Physiology/Medicine:2009
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born November 26, 1948) is an Australian born biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco.
Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider (born April 15, 1961) is a molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952) is a biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
All three share the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for “the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres”. Apart from this achievement Elizabeth Blackburn Co-discovered telomerase enzyme (responsible for replicating telomere) with Carolyn Widney who worked under her in 1984.
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Australian PM Mr. Kevin Michael Rudd contributes 1$million to The Energy and Resources Institute,India(TERI) to foster Energy Research,applauds as Premier Institution
Lauding TERI's sustainable development mission in India and other developing nations, Prime Minister Rudd said, "There are very few organizations like TERI in the world. Australia and AusAid is happy to collaborate with such a premier institution. The expanded fund will support 'bottom-up' investigator-initiated research and introduce new projects demonstrating both excellence in science and a clear path to end use for either commercial or public good. The increased investment in the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund will, in particular, seek to support more applied research and engagement of industry partners in order to produce outcomes that help address some of the pressing challenges that both countries face, especially global warming and Climate Change."
The Prime Minister also welcomed TERI's research collaboration with Deakin University in Australia in the general area of Biotechnology -- with an initial emphasis on industrial application research in the area of Bio-energy and food. He said, "The fellowship program between TERI and Deakin University in Australia will support exchanges for Australian and Indian researchers in the area of advance science and biotechnology"
Reciprocating to the Australian premier and informing the gathering on the TERI-Australia knowledge building projects, Dr R K Pachauri, Director General TERI, and Chair Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), said "Our aim is to broaden this interaction over the coming years, and progress into other areas of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology. For the future we are even considering the development of joint facilities to undertake research not only for India and Australia but to also address issues of global concern." Dr Pachauri further said, "Expansion of the two ongoing technological projects will accelerate the deployment of essential services to rural communities in India -- vastly improving their economic livelihood. This shows the commitment the Australian government has towards issues of sustainable development, especially focusing on the upheaval of the poorest communities".
The AusAid grant will primarily benefit two ongoing projects in India being conducted by TERI, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) - Australia. Work has been initiated on the ‘Solar cooling for urban and remote rural applications' project to develop a solar–biomass hybrid cooling system for combined, decentralized cold storage and power generation application in the rural areas. Accelerating the deployment of 'Smart Mini-grids' is the second TERI-CSIRO project.
For the TERI-Deakin University collaborative programme, the first batch of three Indian students will kick-start a unique PhD research program. While TERI will be the base for a large component of their research, a significant period in Australia will be spent for conducting critical experiments where they will be having detailed interactions with their Deakin supervisors. Each student has two leading researchers as supervisors – one from TERI and the other from Deakin.
The partnership between CSIRO and TERI will benefit the rural community by enabling:
- An additional demonstration of refrigerated food storage using renewable energy in rural villages in India.
- Monitoring of renewable electricity production and power distribution through a village level `smart minigrid'.
- Provision of safe drinking water through the application of synergistic desalination technology.
The Australian prime minister was shown around the TERI laboratories by Dr Banwari Lal, Director, Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology Division TERI, and Dr Alok Adholeya- Director, Biotechnology and Bioresources, TERI. The Environmental and Industrial biotechnology division at TERI focuses on basic and applied research on using microbial resources for biotechnological intervention in environmental pollution, harnesses capability of microbes for production of green energy and screening of biodiversity for bioactive molecules. The Biotechnology and Bioresources division of TERI fosters a multidisciplinary approach to solve the environmental problems and to improve plant species for sustainable utilization through biotechnology. The Division, on one hand, focuses on basic and applied research on using microbial resources for biotechnological intervention to address agriculture and energy- and environment-related issues, and on the other, supplements conventional methods of improving plant species with biotechnological techniques. The Prime Minister was also taken through a poster exhibition on renewable and clean energy technologies developed by TERI by Mr. Amit Kumar, Director Energy–Environment Technology Development (EETD) Division TERI. The focus areas of the EETD Division are -- sustainable buildings: mainstreaming through the national agenda, mainstreaming renewable energy, advancing bio-energy solutions, and managing and transforming the waste in environment-friendly manner.
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(*press release from TERI)
