en List of TWAS Prize recipients

This is a list of recipients of the TWAS Prize, awarded annually by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) since 1985.

Summary

Category	Year started	Total recipients	First recipient
Agricultural Sciences	2003	19	Fu Ting-Dong
Biology	1986	40	Mysore A. Viswamitra
Chemistry	1985	41	Leopoldo De Meis Salimuzzaman Siddiqui^{[note 1]}
Earth Sciences	2003	18	Kaigala Venkata Subbarao
Engineering Sciences	2003	20	Mayra de la Torre
Mathematics	1985	35	Liao Shantao
Medical Sciences	1988	37	Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Physics	1985	39	E. C. G. Sudarshan
Social Sciences^{[note 2]}	2014	6	Ayşe Buğra Zheng Xiaoying^{[note 1]}

Gender of recipients
Gender	Number
Male	225
Female^{[note 3]}	30

Country	Number of Agricultural Sciences TWAS laureates	Number of Biology TWAS laureates	Number of Chemistry TWAS laureates	Number of Earth Sciences TWAS laureates	Number of Engineering Sciences TWAS laureates	Number of Mathematics TWAS laureates	Number of Medical Sciences TWAS laureates	Number of Physics TWAS laureates	Number of Social Science TWAS laureates	Total Number of TWAS laureates
India	2	8	15	4	7	8	3	17	0	64
China	6	6	11	6	1	6	3	9	2	50
Brazil	0	5	5	3	1	13	8	6	1	42
Argentina	0	8	2	0	0	3	6	3	0	22
Taiwan	2	3	3	1	6	1	2	0	0	18
Mexico	1	7	1	2	3	1	1	1	0	17
Chile	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	6
Turkey	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	4
Pakistan	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	4

Agricultural Sciences

Segenet Kelemu

Year	Recipient	Country
2003	Fu Ting-Dong	China
2004	Mohammad J. Malakouti	Iran
2005	Alex E. Bustillo Pardey	Colombia
2006	Heong Kong-Luen	Philippines
2007	Muhammad Arshad	Pakistan
2008	Jei-Fu Shaw	Taiwan
2009	Huey Lang Yang	Taiwan
2010	Francisco Alfonso Larqué Saavedra [es]^{[note 4]}	Mexico
2010	Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov^{[note 4]}	Uzbekistan
2011	Segenet Kelemu^{[note 4]}	Ethiopia
2011	Zeyaur Rahman Khan^{[note 4]}	India
2012	Jun Yu^{[note 4]}	China
2012	Egamberdieva Dilfuza^{[note 4]}	Uzbekistan
2013	Yong-Guan Zhu	China
2014	Fusuo Zhang	China
2015	Jagdish Ladha	India
2015	Feng-Min Li	China
2016	Ismail Cakmak	Turkey
2018	Dabing Zhang^[1]	China

Biology

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Year	Recipient	Country
1986	Mysore A. Viswamitra	India
1987	Adolfo Martinez-Palomo	Mexico
1988	Francisco José Barrantes	Argentina
1990	Eduardo H. Rapoport	Argentina
1991	Ramon R. Latorre	Chile
1992	Tsou Chen-Lu	China
1993	Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella	Mexico
1994	Armando J. Parodi	Argentina
1995	Carlos S. Andreo^{[note 5]}	Argentina
1995	Carlos Eduardo G. da Rocha Miranda^{[note 5]}	Brazil
1996	Juan Carlos Castilla Zenobi^{[note 5]}	Chile
1996	Asis Datta^{[note 5]}	India
1997	Francisco Bolívar Zapata	Mexico
1998	Gabriel Guarneros	Mexico
1999	Raghavendra Gadagkar	India
2000	Alberto C. Frasch	Argentina
2001	Avadhesha Surolia	India
2002	Wang Zhizhen	China
2003	Rafael Palacios de la Lama	Mexico
2004	Jorge Kalil	Brazil
2005	Yang Huanming^{[note 5]}	China
2005	Jerson L. Silva^{[note 5]}	Brazil
2006	Pedro E. León Azofeifa	Costa Rica
2007	Lúcia Mendonça Previato	Brazil
2008	Carlos Arias Ortiz^{[note 5]}	Mexico
2008	Susana López Charretón^{[note 5]}	Mexico
2009	Lin He^{[note 5]}	China
2009	Partha Pratim Majumder^{[note 5]}	India
2010	Satyajit Mayor^{[note 5]}	India
2010	Soo-Chen Cheng^{[note 5]}	Taiwan
2011	Ana Belén Elgoyhen^{[note 5]}	Argentina
2011	Valakunja Nagaraja^{[note 5]}	India
2012	Ann-Shyn Chiang	Taiwan
2013	Xu Guoliang^{[note 5]}	China
2013	Sue Duan Lin-Chao^{[note 5]}	Taiwan
2014	Marcelo Rubinstein	Argentina
2015	Maria Isabel Colombo	Argentina
2016	Amitabha Chattopadhyay^{[note 5]}	India
2016	Zhou Qi^{[note 5]}	China
2018	Luisa Lina Villa^[1]	Brazil

Chemistry

Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju

E. D. Jemmis

Tessy María López Goerne

Year	Recipient	Country
1985	Leopoldo De Meis^{[note 6]}	Brazil
1985	Salimuzzaman Siddiqui^{[note 6]}	Pakistan
1986	Saad S.M. Hassan	Egypt
1987	Chen Chuangtian	China
1988	Sukh Dev	India
1990	Mohammed Hilmy Elnagdi	Egypt
1991	Otto Richard Gottlieb	Brazil
1992	Manapurathu Verghese George	India
1993	Animesh Chakravorty^{[note 6]}	India
1993	Giuseppe Cilento^{[note 6]}	Brazil
1994	Padmanabhan Balaram^{[note 6]}	India
1994	Huang Yao-Zeng^{[note 6]}	China
1996	Enrique J. Baran	Argentina
1996	Henrique Eisi Toma	Brazil
1997	Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu	China
1998	Biman Bagchi	India
1999	Darshan Ranganathan	India
2000	Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju	India
2001	Kimoon Kim	Korea
2002	Peng Shie-Ming	Taiwan
2003	Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis	India
2004	Miguel A. Blesa	Argentina
2005	Krishna N. Ganesh	India
2006	Che Chi-Ming	China
2007	Kankan Bhattacharyya	India
2008	Dongyuan Zhao	China
2009	Wan Lijun^{[note 6]}	China
2009	Swapan Kumar Ghosh^{[note 6]}	India
2010	Yang Dan^{[note 6]}	China
2010	Santanu Bhattacharya^{[note 6]}	India
2011	Jairton Dupont^{[note 6]}	Brazil
2011	Lei Jiang^{[note 6]}	China
2012	Xiao-Ming Chen^{[note 6]}	China
2012	Swapan K. Pati^{[note 6]}	India
2013	Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh^{[note 6]}	India
2013	Chung-Yuan Mou^{[note 6]}	Taiwan
2014	Xie Yi	China
2015	Pi-Tai Chou	Taiwan
2015	Tessy María López Goerne	Mexico
2016	Zhao Yuliang	China
2018	Thalappil Pradeep^[1]	India

Earth Sciences

Anil Kumar Gupta

Mario Hamuy

Year	Recipient	Country
2003	Kaigala Venkata Subbarao	India
2004	Adolpho J. Melfi	Brazil
2005	Zhu Rixiang	China
2006	Rengaswamy Ramesh	India
2007	Paulo Artaxo	Brazil
2008	Sun Jimin	China
2009	Rafael Navarro González	Mexico
2010	Anil Kumar Gupta^{[note 7]}	India
2010	Alexander Kellner^{[note 7]}	Brazil
2011	S. K. Satheesh^{[note 7]}	India
2011	Wu Fuyuan^{[note 7]}	China
2012	Patrick George Eriksson	South Africa
2013	Li Xia	China
2014	Sun-Lin Chung	Taiwan
2015	Piao Shilong	China
2016	Mario Hamuy	Chile
2018	Guochun Zhao^[1]	China
2018	Alejandro Raga^[1]	Mexico

Engineering Sciences

Carlos Artemio Coello Coello

Year	Recipient	Country
2003	Mayra de la Torre	Mexico
2004	Li Aizhen	China
2005	Mauricio Terrones	Mexico
2006	Chang Chun-Yen	Taiwan
2007	Chih-Kung Lee	Taiwan
2008	Ashutosh Sharma	India
2009	Chen Liang-gee	Taiwan
2010	Vivek Borkar^{[note 8]}	India
2010	Edgar D. Zanotto^{[note 8]}	Brazil
2011	Lin Yi-bing	Taiwan
2012	Abdul Latiff Ahmad^{[note 8]}	Malaysia
2012	Kalyanmoy Deb^{[note 8]}	India
2013	Indranil Manna^{[note 8]}	India
2013	Mohammad Ahmad Al-Nimr^{[note 8]}	Jordan
2014	Kumaran Viswanathan^{[note 8]}	India
2014	Chih-Yuan Lu^{[note 8]}	Taiwan
2015	Upadrasta Ramamurty	India
2016	Carlos Artemio Coello Coello	Mexico
2018	Yu-Chee Tseng^[1]	Taiwan
2018	Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay^[1]	India

Mathematics

Year	Recipient	Country
1985	Liao Shantao	China
1986	Mauricio M. Peixoto	Brazil
1987	Mudambai Seshachalu Narasimhan	India
1988	Jacob Palis	Brazil
1990	Wu Wen-Tsun	China
1991	Madabusi S. Raghunathan	India
1992	Manfredo do Carmo	Brazil
1993	Chang Kung-Ching	China
1994	Ricardo Mañé	Uruguay / Brazil
1995	Ibrahim A. Eltayeb ^{[note 9]}	Sultanate of Oman
1995	Carlos Segovia^{[note 9]}	Argentina
1996	César Leopoldo Camacho^{[note 9]}	Brazil
1996	K. R. Parthasarathy^{[note 9]}	India
1998	Marcelo Viana	Brazil
1999	Servet Martinez	Chile
2000	Weiping Zhang	China
2001	Sundararaman Ramanan	India
2002	José Antonio de la Peña	Mexico
2003	Welington Celso de Melo	Brazil
2004	Long Yiming	China
2005	Parimala Raman	India
2006	Claudio Landim	Brazil
2007	Shrikrishna G. Dani	India
2008	Vasudevan Srinivas	India
2009	Enrique Pujals	Brazil
2010	Manindra Agrawal^{[note 9]}	India
2010	Carlos Gustavo Moreira^{[note 9]}	Brazil
2011	Shun-Jen Cheng^{[note 9]}	Taiwan
2011	Patricio Luis Felmer^{[note 9]}	Chile
2012	Fernando Codá Marques	Brazil
2013	Artur Avila	Brazil
2014	Ya-xiang Yuan	China
2015	Alicia Dickenstein	Argentina
2016	Lorenzo Justiniano Diaz Casado	Brazil
2018	Ricardo Guillermo Durán	Argentina

Medical Sciences

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Shah M. Faruque

Year	Recipient	Country
1988	Manuel Elkin Patarroyo	Colombia
1990	Sérgio Henrique Ferreira	Brazil
1991	Leonidas de Mello Deane^{[note 10]}	Brazil
1991	Maria José von Paumgartten Deane^{[note 10]}	Brazil
1992	Juan Carlos Fasciolo	Argentina
1993	Etim Moses Essien	Nigeria
1994	Suhayl J. Jabbur	Lebanon
1995	Dorairajan Balasubramanian^{[note 10]}	India
1995	Iván Antonio Izquierdo^{[note 10]}	Brazil
1996	Bhola Nath Dhawan	India
1997	Eduardo H. Charreau^{[note 10]}	Argentina
1997	Charles O.N. Wambebe ^{[note 10]}	Nigeria
1998	Felix Konotey-Ahulu	Ghana
1999	Esper A. Cavalheiro	Brazil
2000	Rabia Hussain	Pakistan
2001	Rodolfo R. Brenner	Argentina
2002	Ranulfo Romo	Mexico
2003	Mayana Zatz	Brazil
2004	Shiv Kumar Sarin	India
2005	Shah M. Faruque	Bangladesh
2006	Jacinto Convit	Venezuela
2007	Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena	Brazil
2008	Salim Abdool Karim	South Africa
2009	Ricardo Gazzinelli	Brazil
2010	Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich	Argentina
2011	Alberto Kornblihtt	Argentina
2012	Quarraisha Abdool Karim^{[note 10]}	South Africa
2012	George F. Gao^{[note 10]}	China
2013	Mei-Hwei Chang^{[note 10]}	Taiwan
2013	Turgay Dalkara^{[note 10]}	Turkey
2014	Irene Oi Lin NG^{[note 10]}	China
2014	Tse Wen Chang^{[note 10]}	Taiwan
2015	Eduardo Arzt^{[note 10]}	Argentina
2015	Ge Ri-Li^{[note 10]}	China
2016	Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta	Pakistan
2018	Lynn Morris^[1]	South Africa
2018	Seza Õzen^[1]	Turkey

Physics

E. C. George Sudarshan

Year	Recipient	Country
1985	E. C. G. Sudarshan	India
1986	Zhao Zhongxian	China
1987	Cesar Mansueto Giulio Lattes	Brazil
1988	Govind Swarup	India
1990	Tirupattur V. Ramakrishnan	India
1991	Francisco de la Cruz	Argentina
1992	Narendra Kumar	India
1993	Guo Kexin (K.H. Kuo)	China
1994	Girish S. Agarwal	India
1995	Ramanath Cowsik^{[note 11]}	India
1995	Jayme Tiomno^{[note 11]}	Brazil
1996	Fan Hai-fu^{[note 11]}	China
1996	Enrique Tirapegui^{[note 11]}	Chile
1997	Luis F. Rodríguez^{[note 11]}	Mexico
1997	Ashoke Sen^{[note 11]}	India
1998	B. Sriram Shastry	India
1999	Min Naiben	China
2000	Ajay Kumar Sood	India
2001	Luiz Davidovich	Brazil
2002	Deepak Dhar	India
2003	Rodolfo Gambini	Uruguay
2004	Spenta R. Wadia	India
2005	Wang Enge	China
2006	Dipankar Das Sarma	India
2007	Zhang Jie	China
2008	Predhiman Krishan Kaw^{[note 11]}	India
2008	Ali Chamseddine^{[note 11]}	Lebanon
2009	Gao Hongjun^{[note 11]}	China
2009	Nathan Berkovits^{[note 11]}	Brazil
2010	Xue Qikun	China
2011	Thanu Padmanabhan	India
2012	Juan Pablo Paz	Argentina
2013	Rajesh Gopakumar^{[note 11]}	India
2013	Marcos Pimenta^{[note 11]}	Brazil
2014	Daniel de Florian	Argentina
2015	Sandip Trivedi^{[note 11]}	India
2015	Zhou Xingjiang^{[note 11]}	China
2016	Shiraz Minwalla	India
2018	Daniel Mario Ugarte^[1]	Brazil

Social Sciences

Year	Recipient	Country
2014	Rajah Rasiah	Malaysia
2015	Ayşe Buğra^{[note 12]}	Turkey
2015	Zheng Xiaoying^{[note 12]}	China
2016	Marilda Sotomayor	Brazil
2018	Alex Chika Ezeh^[1]	Kenya
2018	Yansui Liu^[1]	China

Notes

^ ^a ^b Shared prize
^ Social Sciences Prize is also known as TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize
^ Maria José von Paumgartten Deane was the first women recipient of the Prize
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Shared prize in Agricultural Sciences
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Shared prize in Biology
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Shared prize in Chemistry
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Shared prize in Earth Sciences
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Shared prize in Engineering Sciences
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Shared prize in Mathematics
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Shared prize in Medical Sciences
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Shared prize in Physics
^ ^a ^b Shared prize in Social Sciences

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Winners of 2018 TWAS Prizes announced". The World Academy of Sciences. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2018.

External links

"Recipients of TWAS Awards and Prizes". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2010 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2011 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2012 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2013 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2014 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2015 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
"TWAS 2016 Awardees". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.

[note2-1] Shared prize

[note3-2] Social Sciences Prize is also known as TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize

[note13-3] Maria José von Paumgartten Deane was the first women recipient of the Prize

[note4-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Shared prize in Agricultural Sciences

[note5-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Shared prize in Biology

[note6-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Shared prize in Chemistry

[note7-8] Shared prize in Earth Sciences

[note8-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Shared prize in Engineering Sciences

[note9-10] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Shared prize in Mathematics

[note10-11] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Shared prize in Medical Sciences

[note11-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Shared prize in Physics

[note12-13] Shared prize in Social Sciences

[2018_winners-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Winners of 2018 TWAS Prizes announced". The World Academy of Sciences. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2018.

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List of TWAS Prize recipients

Summary

Agricultural Sciences

Biology

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

Engineering Sciences

Mathematics

Medical Sciences

Physics

Social Sciences

See also

Notes

References

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