The Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for people recognized for their efforts in presenting scientific ideas to lay people.

List of awardees

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1952	Louis de Broglie	Nobel 1929	France
1953	Julian Huxley		United Kingdom
1954	Waldemar Kaempffert		USA
1955	Augusto Pi Suner		Venezuela
1956	George Gamow		USA
1957	Bertrand Russell	Nobel 1950	United Kingdom
1958	Karl von Frisch	Nobel 1973	Germany
1959	Jean Rostand		France
1960	Ritchie Calder		United Kingdom
1961	Arthur C. Clarke		United Kingdom
1962	Gerald Piel		USA
1963	Jagjit Singh		India
1964	Warren Weaver		USA
1965	Eugene Rabinovitch		USA
1966	Paul Couderc		France
1967	Fred Hoyle		United Kingdom
1968	Gavin de Beer		United Kingdom
1969	Konrad Lorenz	Nobel 1973	Austria
1970	Margaret Mead		USA
1971	Pierre Augier		France
1972	Philip H. Abelson Nigel Calder		USA United Kingdom
1973	Not awarded
1974	José Reis Louis Estrada		Brazil Mexico
1975	Not awarded
1976	George Porter Alexander Oparin		United Kingdom Russia
1977	Fernand Seguin		Canada
1978	Heimar von Ditfurth		Germany
1979	Sergei Kapitza		Russia
1980	Aristide Bastidas		Venezuela
1981	David Attenborough Dennis Flanagan		United Kingdom USA
1982	Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa		Brazil
1983	Abdullah Al Muti Sharafuddin		Bangladesh
1984	Yves Coppens Igor Petryanov		France Russia
1985	Sir Peter Medawar	Nobel 1960	United Kingdom
1986	Nicolai G. Basov David Suzuki	Nobel 1964	Russia Canada
1987	Marcel Roche		Venezuela
1988	Björn Kurtén		Finland
1989	Saad Ahmed Shabaan		Egypt
1990	Misbah-Ud-Din Shami		Pakistan
1991	Radu Iftimovici Narender K. Sehgal		Romania India
1992	Jorge Flores Valdés Peter Okebukola		Mexico Nigeria
1993	Piero Angela		Italy
1994	Nikolai N. Drozdov		Russia
1995	Julieta Fierro Gossman		Mexico
1996	Jiří Grygar Jayant V. Narlikar		Czech Republic India
1997	Dorairajan Balasubramanian		India
1998	Regina Paz Lopez Ennio Candotti		Philippines Brazil
1999	Marian Addy Emil Gabrielian		Ghana Armenia
2000	Ernst W. Hamburger		Brazil
2001	Stefano Fantoni		Italy
2002	Marisela Salvatierra		Venezuela
2003	Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy		Pakistan
2004	Jean Audouze		France

Statistics

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The prize was awarded to 60 people from 22 different countries:

1. United Kingdom - 10 times
2. USA - 7 times
3. Russia and France - 5 times
4. Brazil, Venezuela and India - 4 times
5. Mexico - 3 times
6. Germany, Italy, Canada and Pakistan - 2 times
7. All other (1 time each) - 10 countries

One can see that the four better placed countries have conquered 47% of the awards.

See also

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• Public understanding of science
• Popularization of science
• Science journalism
• Kalinga Prize winners

External links

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• Official site
  • List of past awardees

Prizes | UNESCO

Prix Kalinga