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The Jury And Their Nominees

Outlook invited a seven-man jury, comprising five scientists and two science writers, to nominate Indian scientists and scientists of Indian origin who they felt were most likely to bag a Nobel Prize in the next 10 years. The nominees and their voter

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The Jury And Their Nominees

Outlook invited a seven-man jury, comprising fivescientists and two science writers, to nominate Indian scientists and scientists of Indianorigin who they felt were most likely to bag a Nobel Prize in the next 10 years. Thenominees and their voters were... 

Nominees

Votes

Voting Jury

Vilayanur Ramachandran, Neurobiologist, 
University of California, 
San Diego
5
R.A. Mashelkar,
P.M. Bhargava,
M.G.K. Menon,
R. Ramachandran
Vithal C. Nadkarni,
"Besides the phantom-limb syndrome, he has raised oddball questions like why we laugh and why we believe in God."
C.N.R. Rao
Nanotechnologist, 
JNCASR, Bangalore 
5
R.A. Mashelkar,
K. Kasturirangan,
M.G.K. Menon,
Ramanath Cowsik
Vithal C. Nadkarni,
"A classical music aficionado who turned down Rajya Sabha nominations, he led India to its first supercomputer."
Shrinivas Kulkarni
Astrophysicist, 
Caltech, Pasadena, US
3
R.A. Mashelkar,
K. Kasturirangan,
R. Ramachandran,
"Besides the millisecond pulsars—distant stars emitting very high-frequency radio waves—he also discovered brown dwarfs."
Ashoke Sen
String theorist,
HRI, Allahabad
3
Ramanath Cowsik
R. Ramachandran,
Vithal C. Nadkarni,
His contributions set the agenda for string theory research and he ranks with Ed Witten and other pioneers of the field.
K.R. Srinivasan
Physicist, 
ASICTP, Trieste, Italy
1
K. Kasturirangan,
E.Premkumar Reddy
Cell biologist, 
Fels Institute, Philadelphia
1
P.M. Bhargava,
Lalji Singh
Molecular biologist, 
CCMB, Hyderabad
1
P.M. Bhargava,
Goverdhan Mehta
Organic chemist 
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
1
Ramanath Cowsik
J.V. Narlikar
Astrophysicist, 
IUCA, Pune 
1
Ramanath Cowsik
M.S. Swaminathan
Plant geneticist 
MSRF, Chennai 
1
Ramanath Cowsik
K. Vijay Raghavan
Biologist, 
TIFR, Bangalore
1
Ramanath Cowsik
G. Padmanabhan
Molecular biologist, 
IISc, Bangalore 
1
Ramanath Cowsik
M.K. Chandrashekaran
Evolutionary biologist, JNCASR, Bangalore 
1
Ramanath Cowsik
V. Ramakrishnan
Structural biologist, 
MRC Lab, Cambridge 
1
R. Ramachandran,
Mriganka Sur
Neuroscientist, Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology  
1
R. Ramachandran,
Jainendra Jain
Physicist, 
Penn State University
1
R. Ramachandran,
Lov Grover
Quantum computing, 
Bell Labs  
1
Vithal C. Nadkarni,
Abhay Ashtekar
Quantum physicist, 
Penn State University  
1
Vithal C. Nadkarni,
Gurdev Khush
Genetic agronomist, 
IRRI, Manila
1
Vithal C. Nadkarni,
S. Chandrashekhar
Physicist Liquid Crystal Laboratory, Bangalore 
1
Vithal C. Nadkarni,

Jury
Nominees
K. Kasturirangan , 
Chairman, 
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
C.N.R. Rao 
K.R. Srinivasan 
Shrinivas Kulkarni 
R.A. Mashelkar,
Director-general, 
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
C.N.R. Rao 
Shrinivas Kulkarni 
Vilayanur Ramachandran
P.M. Bhargava,
Founder-director, 
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
E. Premkumar Reddy
Vilayanur Ramachandran 
Lalji Singh
M.G.K. Menon, 
Physicist and former 
Union science minister
C.N.R. Rao 
Vilayanur Ramachandran
Ramanath Cowsik,  
Director, 
Indian Institute of 
Astrophysics (IIAP)
C.N.R. Rao  
Goverdhan Mehta
Ashoke Sen
J.V. Narlikar 
M.S. Swaminathan 
K. Vijay Raghavan
G. Padmanabhan
M.K. Chandrashekaran 
R. Ramachandran , 
Science writer, 
Frontline
V. Ramakrishnan 
Mriganka Sur 
Jainendra Jain
Shrinivas Kulkarni
Vilayanur Ramachandran 
Ashoke Sen
Vithal C. Nadkarni, 
Science writer, 
Times of India Group
C.N.R. Rao
Vilayanur Ramachandran 
Ashoke Sen
Lov Grover 
Abhay Ashtekar 
Gurdev Khush
S. Chandrashekhar
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