This is a list of recipients of the TWAS Prize, awarded annually by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) since 1985.

Summary Category Year started Total recipients First recipientAgricultural Sciences200319Fu Ting-DongBiology198640Mysore A. ViswamitraChemistry198541Leopoldo De MeisSalimuzzaman SiddiquiEarth Sciences200318Kaigala Venkata SubbaraoEngineering Sciences200320Mayra de la TorreMathematics198535 Liao ShantaoMedical Sciences198837Manuel Elkin PatarroyoPhysics198539E. C. G. SudarshanSocial Sciences20137Ayşe BuğraZheng Xiaoying

Country Number of Agricultural Sciences TWAS laureates Number of Biology TWAS laureates Number of Chemistry TWAS laureates Number of Earth Sciences TWAS laureates Number of Engineering Sciences TWAS laureates Number of Mathematics TWAS laureates Number of Medical Sciences TWAS laureates Number of Physics TWAS laureates Number of Social Science TWAS laureates Total Number of TWAS laureates 2 8 15 4 7 8 3 17 064 6 6 11 6 1 6 3 9 3 51 0 5 5 3 1 13 86 142 0 8 2 0 0 3 6 3 022 2 3 3 1 6 1 2 0 0 18 1 7 1 2 3 1 1 1 0 17 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 4

Agricultural Sciences

Year Recipient Country2003Fu Ting-DongChina2004Mohammad J. MalakoutiIran2005Alex E. Bustillo PardeyColombia2006Heong Kong-LuenPhilippines2007Muhammad ArshadPakistan2008Jei-Fu ShawTaiwan2009Huey Lang YangTaiwan2010Mexico2010Ibrokhim AbdurakhmonovUzbekistan2011Segenet KelemuEthiopia2011Zeyaur Rahman KhanIndia2012Jun YuChina2012Egamberdieva DilfuzaUzbekistan2013Yong-Guan ZhuChina2014Fusuo ZhangChina2015Jagdish LadhaIndia2015Feng-Min LiChina2016Ismail CakmakTurkey2018Dabing ZhangChina

Biology

Year Recipient Country1986Mysore A. ViswamitraIndia1987Adolfo Martinez-PalomoMexico1988Francisco José BarrantesArgentina1990Eduardo H. RapoportArgentina1991Ramon R. LatorreChile1992Tsou Chen-LuChina1993Luis Rafael Herrera-EstrellaMexico1994Armando J. ParodiArgentina1995Carlos S. AndreoArgentina1995Carlos Eduardo G. da Rocha MirandaBrazil1996Juan Carlos Castilla ZenobiChile1996Asis DattaIndia1997Francisco Bolívar ZapataMexico1998Gabriel GuarnerosMexico1999Raghavendra GadagkarIndia2000Alberto C. FraschArgentina2001Avadhesha SuroliaIndia2002Wang ZhizhenChina2003Rafael Palacios de la LamaMexico2004Jorge KalilBrazil2005Yang HuanmingChina2005Jerson L. SilvaBrazil2006Pedro E. León AzofeifaCosta Rica2007Lúcia Mendonça PreviatoBrazil 2008Carlos Arias OrtizMexico2008Susana López CharretónMexico2009Lin HeChina2009Partha Pratim MajumderIndia2010Satyajit MayorIndia2010Soo-Chen ChengTaiwan2011Ana Belén ElgoyhenArgentina2011Valakunja NagarajaIndia2012Ann-Shyn ChiangTaiwan2013Xu GuoliangChina2013Sue Duan Lin-ChaoTaiwan2014Marcelo RubinsteinArgentina2015Maria Isabel ColomboArgentina2016Amitabha ChattopadhyayIndia2016Zhou QiChina2018Luisa Lina VillaBrazil

Chemistry

Year Recipient Country1985Leopoldo De MeisBrazil1985Salimuzzaman SiddiquiPakistan1986Saad S.M. HassanEgypt1987Chen Chuangtian China1988Sukh DevIndia1990Mohammed Hilmy ElnagdiEgypt1991Otto Richard GottliebBrazil1992Manapurathu Verghese GeorgeIndia1993Animesh ChakravortyIndia1993Giuseppe CilentoBrazil1994Padmanabhan BalaramIndia1994Huang Yao-ZengChina1996Enrique J. BaranArgentina1996Henrique Eisi TomaBrazil1997Reuben Jih-Ru HwuChina1998Biman BagchiIndia1999Darshan RanganathanIndia2000Gautam Radhakrishna DesirajuIndia2001Kimoon KimKorea2002Peng Shie-MingTaiwan2003Eluvathingal Devassy JemmisIndia2004Miguel A. BlesaArgentina2005Krishna N. GaneshIndia2006Che Chi-MingChina2007Kankan BhattacharyyaIndia2008Dongyuan ZhaoChina2009Wan LijunChina2009Swapan Kumar GhoshIndia2010Yang DanChina2010Santanu BhattacharyaIndia2011Jairton DupontBrazil2011Lei JiangChina2012Xiao-Ming ChenChina2012Swapan K. PatiIndia2013Ayyappanpillai AjayaghoshIndia2013Chung-Yuan MouTaiwan2014Xie YiChina2015Pi-Tai ChouTaiwan2015Tessy María López GoerneMexico2016Zhao YuliangChina2018Thalappil PradeepIndia

Earth Sciences

Year Recipient Country2003Kaigala Venkata SubbaraoIndia2004Adolpho J. MelfiBrazil2005Zhu RixiangChina2006Rengaswamy RameshIndia2007Paulo ArtaxoBrazil2008Sun JiminChina2009Rafael Navarro GonzálezMexico2010Anil Kumar GuptaIndia2010Alexander KellnerBrazil2011S. K. SatheeshIndia2011Wu FuyuanChina2012Patrick George ErikssonSouth Africa2013Li XiaChina2014Sun-Lin ChungTaiwan2015Piao ShilongChina2016Mario HamuyChile2018Guochun ZhaoChina2018Alejandro RagaMexico

Engineering Sciences

Year Recipient Country2003Mayra de la TorreMexico2004Li AizhenChina2005Mauricio TerronesMexico2006Chang Chun-YenTaiwan2007Chih-Kung LeeTaiwan2008Ashutosh SharmaIndia2009Chen Liang-geeTaiwan2010Vivek BorkarIndia2010Edgar D. ZanottoBrazil2011Lin Yi-bingTaiwan2012Abdul Latiff AhmadMalaysia2012Kalyanmoy DebIndia2013Indranil MannaIndia2013Mohammad Ahmad Al-NimrJordan2014Kumaran ViswanathanIndia2014Chih-Yuan LuTaiwan2015Upadrasta RamamurtyIndia2016Carlos Artemio Coello CoelloMexico2018Yu-Chee TsengTaiwan2018Sanghamitra BandyopadhyayIndia

Mathematics

Year Recipient Country1985 Liao Shantao China1986Mauricio M. PeixotoBrazil1987Mudambai Seshachalu NarasimhanIndia1988Jacob PalisBrazil1990Wu Wen-TsunChina1991Madabusi S. RaghunathanIndia1992Manfredo do CarmoBrazil1993Chang Kung-ChingChina1994Ricardo Mañé Uruguay / Brazil1995Ibrahim A. Eltayeb Sultanate of Oman1995Carlos SegoviaArgentina1996César Leopoldo CamachoBrazil1996K. R. ParthasarathyIndia1998Marcelo VianaBrazil1999Servet MartinezChile2000Weiping ZhangChina2001Sundararaman RamananIndia2002José Antonio de la PeñaMexico2003Welington Celso de MeloBrazil2004Long YimingChina2005Parimala RamanIndia2006Claudio LandimBrazil2007Shrikrishna G. DaniIndia2008Vasudevan SrinivasIndia2009Enrique PujalsBrazil2010Manindra AgrawalIndia2010Carlos Gustavo MoreiraBrazil2011Shun-Jen ChengTaiwan2011Patricio Luis FelmerChile2012Fernando Codá MarquesBrazil2013Artur AvilaBrazil2014Ya-xiang YuanChina2015Alicia DickensteinArgentina2016Lorenzo Justiniano Diaz CasadoBrazil2018Ricardo Guillermo DuránArgentina

Medical Sciences

Year Recipient Country1988Manuel Elkin PatarroyoColombia1990Sérgio Henrique FerreiraBrazil1991Leonidas de Mello DeaneBrazil1991Maria José von Paumgartten DeaneBrazil1992Juan Carlos FascioloArgentina1993Etim Moses EssienNigeria1994Suhayl J. JabburLebanon1995Dorairajan BalasubramanianIndia1995Iván Antonio IzquierdoBrazil1996Bhola Nath DhawanIndia1997Eduardo H. CharreauArgentina1997Charles O.N. Wambebe Nigeria1998Felix Konotey-AhuluGhana1999Esper A. CavalheiroBrazil2000Rabia HussainPakistan2001Rodolfo R. BrennerArgentina2002Ranulfo RomoMexico2003Mayana ZatzBrazil2004Shiv Kumar SarinIndia2005Shah M. FaruqueBangladesh2006Jacinto ConvitVenezuela2007Sérgio Danilo Junho PenaBrazil2008Salim Abdool KarimSouth Africa2009Ricardo GazzinelliBrazil2010Gabriel Adrián RabinovichArgentina2011Alberto KornblihttArgentina2012Quarraisha Abdool KarimSouth Africa2012George F. GaoChina2013Mei-Hwei ChangTaiwan2013Turgay DalkaraTurkey2014Irene Oi Lin NGChina2014Tse Wen ChangTaiwan2015Eduardo ArztArgentina2015Ge Ri-LiChina2016Zulfiqar Ahmed BhuttaPakistan2018Lynn MorrisSouth Africa2018Seza ÕzenTurkey

Physics

Year Recipient Country1985E. C. G. SudarshanIndia1986 Zhao Zhongxian China1987Cesar Mansueto Giulio LattesBrazil1988Govind SwarupIndia1990Tirupattur V. RamakrishnanIndia1991Francisco de la CruzArgentina1992Narendra KumarIndia1993Guo Kexin (K.H. Kuo)China1994Girish S. AgarwalIndia1995Ramanath CowsikIndia1995Jayme TiomnoBrazil1996Fan Hai-fuChina1996Enrique TirapeguiChile1997Luis F. RodríguezMexico1997Ashoke SenIndia1998B. Sriram ShastryIndia1999Min Naiben China2000Ajay Kumar SoodIndia2001Luiz DavidovichBrazil2002Deepak DharIndia2003Rodolfo GambiniUruguay2004Spenta R. WadiaIndia2005Wang EngeChina2006Dipankar Das SarmaIndia2007Zhang JieChina2008Predhiman Krishan KawIndia2008Ali ChamseddineLebanon2009Gao HongjunChina2009Nathan BerkovitsBrazil2010Xue QikunChina2011Thanu PadmanabhanIndia2012Juan Pablo PazArgentina2013Rajesh GopakumarIndia2013Marcos PimentaBrazil2014Daniel de FlorianArgentina2015Sandip TrivediIndia2015Zhou XingjiangChina2016Shiraz MinwallaIndia2018Daniel Mario UgarteBrazil

Social Sciences Year Recipient Country2013Zhang LinxiuChina2014Rajah RasiahMalaysia2015Ayşe BuğraTurkey2015Zheng XiaoyingChina2016Marilda SotomayorBrazil2018Alex Chika EzehKenya2018Yansui LiuChina

See also Nikkei Asia Prize Borlaug CAST Communication Award L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science

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