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 Diego | 5 | R.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 | 5 | R.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, US | 3 | R.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, Allahabad | 3 | Ramanath 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, Italy | 1 | K. Kasturirangan, |
| E.Premkumar Reddy Cell biologist, Fels Institute, Philadelphia | 1 | P.M. Bhargava, |
| Lalji Singh Molecular biologist, CCMB, Hyderabad | 1 | P.M. Bhargava, |
| Goverdhan Mehta Organic chemist Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 1 | Ramanath Cowsik |
| J.V. Narlikar Astrophysicist, IUCA, Pune | 1 | Ramanath Cowsik |
| M.S. Swaminathan Plant geneticist MSRF, Chennai | 1 | Ramanath Cowsik |
| K. Vijay Raghavan Biologist, TIFR, Bangalore | 1 | Ramanath Cowsik |
| G. Padmanabhan Molecular biologist, IISc, Bangalore | 1 | Ramanath Cowsik |
| M.K. Chandrashekaran Evolutionary biologist, JNCASR, Bangalore | 1 | Ramanath Cowsik |
| V. Ramakrishnan Structural biologist, MRC Lab, Cambridge | 1 | R. Ramachandran, |
| Mriganka Sur Neuroscientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | R. Ramachandran, |
| Jainendra Jain Physicist, Penn State University | 1 | R. Ramachandran, |
| Lov Grover Quantum computing, Bell Labs | 1 | Vithal C. Nadkarni, |
| Abhay Ashtekar Quantum physicist, Penn State University | 1 | Vithal C. Nadkarni, |
| Gurdev Khush Genetic agronomist, IRRI, Manila | 1 | Vithal C. Nadkarni, |
| S. Chandrashekhar Physicist Liquid Crystal Laboratory, Bangalore | 1 | Vithal 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 | |
