Nobel Prize 2019
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Field |
Awardee & Rationale |
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Physics |
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos". One half to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star." |
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Chemistry |
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries." |
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Physiology or Medicine |
William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability." |
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Literature |
Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." |
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Peace |
Abiy Ahmed Ali "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea." |
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences |
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." |
11-Oct-2019: Kayakalp awards 2019
Under the Central Government Hospitals A category, the first prize of Rs. 3 crore was given to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi. JIPMER, Puducherry was judged as the runner-up in this category with Rs. 1.5 crore prize money, and Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER),Chandigarh and Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi won the Commendation Award of Rs. 50 Lakh each.
In the group B category, the winner was VBCH, Silvassa winning Rs. 2 crore, with AIIMS Bhubaneswar as the runner-up winning Rs. 1 crore. NEIGRIHMS, Shillong, LGBRIMH, Tezpur and AIIMS, Bhopal each won Rs. 50 lakhs as Commendation Award. Dr. Harsh Vardhan also felicitated the District Hospitals, PHCs and CHCs, wherein 29 hospitals won the First Prize, 14 were awarded the Second Prize and the Third Prize was won by 2 hospitals. In the current year, for the holistic and comprehensive improvement across the health sector, the Kayakalp scheme was extended to private sector health facilities; 11 private health facilities were felicitated at the event.
The Kayakalp Award was instituted as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on 15th May 2015 as a national initiative to recognize and felicitate public health facilities that demonstrate high levels of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control measure on promoting cleanliness in public spaces. Over the period, the number of facilities under Kayakalp rose from 750 health facilities in 2015-16 to more than 26000 facilities in 2018-19. The number of facilities that got the Kayakalp awards also increased from 97 2015-16 to 1539 facilities in 2016-17 and 2962 in 2017-18. For FY 2018-19, 4820 healthcare facilities have received Kayakalp awards.
Dr. B C Roy Awards 2018
Eminent Medical Person:
- H. S. Shashidhar (Medical Director, Manasa group of hospitals Karnataka)
- B. K. Misra
Outstanding service in the field of socio medical relief
- P Raghu. Ram
- H. R. Surendra, MBBS, MS (ophthalmology), WHO fellow, General Secretary of International Friends of Buddhists
- Kirit Premjibhai Solanki , MBBS , MS (General Surgery),FICS. Ex Professor of Surgery V S Hospital Ahmedabad (He is currently 2nd term Member of Parliament from Ahmedabad West constituency Gujarat)
Best talents in encouraging the development of specialties in different branches in Medicine
- Sanjay Desai