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GITAM Award for Japanese physicist
GITAM University will honour Noble Laureate Dr Takaaki Kajita with GITAM Foundation Award-2017 on Saturday during the GITAM University Foundation Day celebrations.
Visakhapatnam: GITAM University will honour Noble Laureate Dr Takaaki Kajita with GITAM Foundation Award-2017 on Saturday during the GITAM University Foundation Day celebrations.
Takaaki Kajita, a world renowned Japanese physicist, working on Cosmic Ray Physics, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for his revolutionary neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande detectors in the Kamioka mines of Japan.
Kajita shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Canada’s Arthur McDonald for showing experimentally that neutrinos have mass. He is presently Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo.
While announcing the award GITAM University Vice-Chancellor Prof MS Prasada Rao said that the GITAM Foundation Award was instituted with the donation by Dr MVVS Murthi with a corpus of Rs 30 million.
The Vice-Chancellor briefed that the GITAM Foundation Award was aimed at recognising personalities for their outstanding contribution in any of the fields of education, economics, science, literature, fine arts, and service.
As part of GITAM Foundation Award a plaque and a cheque for Rs 1 million will be presented to Dr Takaaki Kajita during the GITAM Foundation Day, the Vice-Chancellor informed.
