List of Kalinga Award Winners

In government exams like SSC, Banking, Railways, etc we find many questions from the Awards and Honours section. This is a part of the current affairs section. we will cover the section comprehensively so that students can learn and get most of the questions correct in this section. In this article, we will provide a complete list of Kalinga Award winners.

Kalinga Award: An Introduction

• An international award recognizing outstanding contributions by individuals to communicating science to society and promoting the popularization of science. 
  
• By promoting the mutual understanding between science and society, the benefits of scientific knowledge can be harnessed to improve daily lives, empower people and find solutions to global, regional, and local challenges.    
  
• In order to strengthen communication between science and society, it is important that efforts to bridge the gap do not go unnoticed. There is a need to promote the popularization of science, including all activities that bring scientific knowledge and scientific methods to the public outside the formal framework of the classroom and promote public understanding of the history of science.  
  
• The UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an international award that recognizes exceptional contributions by individuals to communicating science to society and promoting the popularization of science.   
  
• It is awarded to individuals who have had distinguished careers as writers, editors, lecturers, radio, television, web program directors, or film producers to help interpret science, research, and technology for the public.    
  
• UNESCO Kalinga Prize winners recognize the potential power of science, technology and research to improve public welfare, enrich nations’ cultural heritage, and provide solutions to social problems at the local, regional and global levels. 
  
• The UNESCO Kalinga Prize for Popularizing Science is the oldest UNESCO award, established in 1951 following a donation from Mr. Bijayananda Patnaik, the founder and Chairman of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India. The award is currently funded by the Kalinga Foundation Trust(link is external), the Government of the State of Orissa, India, and the Government of India.

List of Kalinga Awardees:

Serial No.	Recipient Name	Country	Year
1	Louis de Broglie	France	1952
2	Julian Huxley	United Kingdom	1953
3	Waldemar Kaempffert	United States	1954
4	Augusto Pi Suner	Venezuela	1955
5	George Gamow	United States	1956
6	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	1957
7	Karl von Frisch	Germany	1958
8	Jean Rostand	France	1959
9	Ritchie Calder	United Kingdom	1960
10	Arthur C. Clarke	United Kingdom	1961
11	Gerard Piel	United States	1962
12	Jagjit Singh	India	1963
13	Warren Weaver	United States	1964
14	Eugene Rabinowitch	United States	1965
15	Paul Couderc	France	1966
16	Fred Hoyle	United Kingdom	1967
17	Gavin de Beer	United Kingdom	1968
18	Konrad Lorenz	Austria	1969
19	Margaret Mead	United States	1970
20	Pierre Victor Auger	France	1971
21	Philip H. Abelson & Nigel Calder	United States &  United Kingdom	1972
22	José Reis & Luis Estrada Martínez	Brazil & Mexico	1974
23	George Porter & Alexander Oparin	United Kingdom & Soviet Union	1976
24	Fernand Seguin	Canada	1977
25	Hoimar von Ditfurth	Germany	1978
26	Sergey Kapitsa	Soviet Union	1979
27	Arístides Bastidas	Venezuela	1980
28	David Attenborough & Dennis Flanagan	United Kingdom & United States	1981
29	Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa	Brazil	1982
30	Abdullah Al Muti Sharafuddin	Bangladesh	1983
31	Yves Coppens & Igor Petryanov	France & Soviet Union	1984
32	Peter Medawar	United Kingdom	1985
33	Nicolai G. Basov & David Suzuki	Soviet Union & Canada	1986
34	Marcel Roche	Venezuela	1987
35	Björn Kurtén	Finland	1988
36	Saad Ahmed Shabaan	Egypt	1989
37	Misbah-Ud-Din Shami	Pakistan	1990
38	Radu Iftimovici & Narender K. Sehgal	Romania & India	1991
39	Jorge Flores Valdés & Peter Okebukola	Mexico & Nigeria	1992
40	Piero Angela	Italy	1993
41	Nikolai N. Drozdov	Russia	1994
42	Julieta Norma Fierro Gossman	Mexico	1995
43	Jiří Grygar & Jayant V. Narlikar	Czech Republic &         India	1996
44	Dorairajan Balasubramanian	India	1997
45	Regina Paz Lopez & Ennio Candotti	Philippines &    Brazil	1998
46	Marian Ewurama Addy & Emil Gabrielian	Ghana & Armenia	1999
47	Ernst W. Hamburger	Brazil	2000
48	Stefano Fantoni	Italy	2001
49	Marisela Salvatierra	Venezuela	2002
50	Pervez Hoodbhoy	Pakistan	2003
51	Jean Audouze	France	2004
52	Jeter Bertoletti	Brazil	2005
53	No awards	——–	2006–2008
54	Yash Pal and Trinh Xuan Thuan	India and Vietnam	2009
55	René Raúl Drucker Colín	Mexico	2011
56	Xiangyi Li	China	2013
57	Diego Golombek	Argentina	2015
58	Erik Jacquemyn	Belgium	2017
59	Karl Kruszelnicki	Australia	2019
60	Jean-Pierre Luminet	France	2021