Awards and Honours Flashcards
Gupta, power grid Corporation director bags gold Stevie award
Mrs Seema Gupta, director (operations) power grid Corporation of India Ltd has been named the winner of gold Stevie award in the lifetime achievement business category in the 17th annual Stevie awards for women in business.
Four activists share right livelihood award 2020
Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, Nasrin Sotoudeh from Iran, Bryan Stevenson of the USA and Lottie Cunningham Wren of NicaraguaWere declared the joint winners of the right livelihood award of 2020 October 5 2020 by the right livelihood award foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Kerala State film awards: Vasanthi bags the best film honour
The Kerala State film awards were conferred different categories on October 13, 2020 noted cinematographer filmmaker Madhu Ambat was the head of the award jury.
IOC President Thomas Bach honoured with Seoul peace prize
International Olympic committee president Thomas Bach was on October 26, 2020 honoured with the coveted civil peace prize when he joined the award ceremony virtually from love Zayn and former United nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the honour of in Seoul on behalf of Mr Thomas Bach amid preventive measures for COVID-19 pandemic.
United Nations global climate action awards 2020
United Nations global climate action awards 2020 were announced on October 27, 2023 categories ‘climate neutral now’, ‘financing for climate friendly investment’ and ‘woman for results’.
the 13 award were named announced including one for an Indian organisation named ‘global Himalayan expedition’ (GHE) in financing for climate friendly investment category.
Nobel prizes 2020
Medicine or physiology- American scientists duo Harvey J. Alter and Charles M Rice and british scientist Michael Hougton when declared the joint winners of the noble prize for medicine 2020 in October 5.
Physics-British physicist Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez of the USA and Reinhard Genzel Of Germany were declared the winners of noble prize for Physics.
Miss Andrea Ghez is just the fourth woman to get a noble prize for physics since 1901 when the first noble prices were presented.
Chemistry
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of thr USA
Literature
American poet Louise Gluck won the Nobel in Literature.
Economics
American economists duo Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, both based at Stanford University USA were declared the joint winners of noble prize in economics.
