Saturday 7 January 2012

Famous Personalities (2m)

1.Venkatrman Ramakrishnan - Indo-American scientist ; 2009 Nobel prize winner for Chemistry for studies of structure and function of Ribosome ; Padma Vibhushan awarded in 2010 ; recently in news as given 'Knighthood' in England for 'molecular biology' ; currently working in MRC Laboratory at Cambridge.

2. Daniel Shechtman-  Israeli Scientist ; 2011 Nobel prize winner for chemistry for discovery of 'Quasi-periodic crystals' (or quasi crystals) ; discovered same type of structure in Aluminium and Manganese ; quasicrystals hve modest impact on everyday life.

3.Ela Bhatt - Founder of 'Self Employed Women's Association' (SEWA) in India ; former MP and Member of Indian Planning Commission ; recently in news for wining 'Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development 2011' for Empowering Women in India and abroad.

4. Captain Mohanta Panging - Indian Air Force officer, initially part of delegation  to China for peace talks;denied visa by China as he is from Arunachal Pradesh.

5. D.Bala Venkatesh Verma a senior Indian Diplomat; given 1st S.K.Singh Award; key member who saw Indo-US nuclear deal through; awarded for his extraordinary efforts to streanthen Indias position in global nuclear order. 

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