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

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 Diego5R.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 5R.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, US3R.A. Mashelkar,
K. Kasturirangan,
R. Ramachandran,"Besides the millisecond pulsarsdistant stars emitting very high-frequency radio waveshe also discovered brown dwarfs."

Ashoke Sen
String theorist,
HRI, Allahabad3Ramanath 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, Italy1K. Kasturirangan,E.Premkumar Reddy
Cell biologist,
Fels Institute, Philadelphia1P.M. Bhargava,Lalji Singh
Molecular biologist,
CCMB, Hyderabad1P.M. Bhargava,Goverdhan Mehta
Organic chemist
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore1Ramanath CowsikJ.V. Narlikar
Astrophysicist,
IUCA, Pune 1Ramanath CowsikM.S. Swaminathan
Plant geneticist
MSRF, Chennai 1Ramanath CowsikK. Vijay Raghavan
Biologist,
TIFR, Bangalore1Ramanath CowsikG. Padmanabhan
Molecular biologist,
IISc, Bangalore 1Ramanath CowsikM.K. Chandrashekaran
Evolutionary biologist, JNCASR, Bangalore 1Ramanath CowsikV. Ramakrishnan
Structural biologist,
MRC Lab, Cambridge 1R. Ramachandran,Mriganka Sur
Neuroscientist, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology  1R. Ramachandran,Jainendra Jain
Physicist,
Penn State University1R. Ramachandran,Lov Grover
Quantum computing,
Bell Labs  1Vithal C. Nadkarni,Abhay Ashtekar
Quantum physicist,
Penn State University  1Vithal C. Nadkarni,Gurdev Khush
Genetic agronomist,
IRRI, Manila1Vithal C. Nadkarni,S. Chandrashekhar
Physicist Liquid Crystal Laboratory, Bangalore 1Vithal 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