Kalinga Prize
The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (in short: Kalinga Prize; English Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science ) is a UNESCO award since 1952. It is awarded for significant contributions to the popularization of science exclusively to natural persons who have an excellent career as a scientist or as a writer , editor or film producer .
In the first few years the award was given annually. The prize will be awarded every two years from 2009. The prize money is US $ 20,000 (as of 2017) and is provided by the Kalinga Foundation Trust , based in Bhubaneswar , India. The foundation goes back to a donation from Biju Patnaik ( Bijayananda Patnaik , 1916–1997) in 1951. Since 2010, the foundation has also been awarding a national Kalinga Samman for Popularization of Science, which is endowed with 100,000 rupees .
The award bears the name of the ancient Indian kingdom of Kalinga . The asteroid (26214) Kalinga was again named after the Kalinga Prize.
Award winners
- 1952 Louis de Broglie (France, Nobel Prize in Physics 1929)
- 1953 Julian Huxley (United Kingdom)
- 1954 Waldemar Kaempffert (United States)
- 1955 Augusto Pi Suner (Venezuela)
- 1956 George Gamow (United States)
- 1957 Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom, Nobel Prize in Literature 1950)
- 1958 Karl von Frisch (Austria / Germany, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973)
- 1959 Jean Rostand (France)
- 1960 Ritchie Calder (United Kingdom)
- 1961 Arthur C. Clarke (United Kingdom)
- 1962 Gerald Piel (United States)
- 1963 Jagjit Singh (India)
- 1964 Warren Weaver (United States)
- 1965 Eugene Rabinowitch (United States)
- 1966 Paul Couderc (France)
- 1967 Fred Hoyle (United Kingdom)
- 1968 Gavin de Beer (United Kingdom)
- 1969 Konrad Lorenz (Austria, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973)
- 1970 Margaret Mead (United States)
- 1971 Pierre Auger (France)
- 1972 Philip H. Abelson (United States) Nigel Calder (United Kingdom)
- 1973 not awarded
- 1974 José Reis (Brazil) Louis Estrada (Mexico)
- 1975 not awarded
- 1976 George Porter (United Kingdom, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967) Alexander Oparin (USSR)
- 1977 Fernand Seguin (Canada)
- 1978 Hoimar von Ditfurth (Germany)
- 1979 Sergei Kapiza (USSR)
- 1980 Aristide Bastidas (Venezuela)
- 1981 David Attenborough (United Kingdom) Dennis Flanagan (United States)
- 1982 Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa (Brazil)
- 1983 Abdullah Al Muti Sharafuddin (Bangladesh)
- 1984 Yves Coppens (France) Igor Petrjanow-Sokolow (USSR)
- 1985 Peter Medawar (United Kingdom, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960)
- 1986 Nikolai Bassow (USSR, Nobel Prize in Physics 1964) David Suzuki (Canada)
- 1987 Marcel Roche (Venezuela)
- 1988 Björn Kurtén (Finland)
- 1989 Saad Ahmed Shabaan (Egypt)
- 1990 Misbah-Ud-Din Shami (Pakistan)
- 1991 Radu Iftimovici (Romania) Narender K. Sehgal (India)
- 1992 Jorge Flores Valdés (Mexico) Peter Okebukola (Nigeria)
- 1993 Piero Angela (Italy)
- 1994 Nikolai Drozdov (Russia)
- 1995 Julieta Fierro Gossman (Mexico)
- 1996 Jirí Grygar (Czech Republic) Jayant V. Narlikar (India)
- 1997 Dorairajan Balasubramanian (India)
- 1998 Regina Paz Lopez (Philippines) Ennio Candotti (Brazil)
- 1999 Marian Addy (Ghana) Emil Gabrielian (Armenia)
- 2000 Ernst W. Hamburger (Brazil)
- 2001 Stefano Fantoni (Italy)
- 2002 Marisela Salvatierra (Venezuela)
- 2003 Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Pakistan)
- 2004 Jean Audouze (France)
- 2005 Jeter Jorge Bertoletti (Brazil)
- 2006–2008 not awarded
- 2009 Yash Pal (India) Trịnh Xuân Thuận (Vietnam)
- 2011 Rene Raul Drucker Colin (Mexico)
- 2013 Xiangyi Li (China)
- 2015 Andrés Golombek (Argentina)
- 2017 Erik Jacquemyn (Belgium)
- 2019 Karl Kruszelnicki (Australia)
Web links
- UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science at unesco.org
- History of Kalinga Prize, List of Kalinga Prize Laureates at kalingafoundationtrust.com