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This is a list of recipients of the TWAS Prize, awarded annually by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) since 1985.
| Category | Year started | Total recipients | First recipient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Sciences | 2003 | 19 | Fu Ting-Dong |
| Biology | 1986 | 40 | Mysore A. Viswamitra |
| Chemistry | 1985 | 41 | Leopoldo De Meis Salimuzzaman Siddiqui[note 1] |
| Earth Sciences | 2003 | 18 | Kaigala Venkata Subbarao |
| Engineering Sciences | 2003 | 20 | Mayra de la Torre |
| Mathematics | 1985 | 35 | Liao Shantao |
| Medical Sciences | 1988 | 37 | Manuel Elkin Patarroyo |
| Physics | 1985 | 39 | E. C. G. Sudarshan |
| Social Sciences[note 2] | 2014 | 6 | Ayşe Buğra Zheng Xiaoying[note 1] |
| Gender | Number |
|---|---|
| Male | |
| Female[note 3] |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 India | 2 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 64 |
 China | 6 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 50 |
 Brazil | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 42 |
 Argentina | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 22 |
 Taiwan | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
 Mexico | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
 Chile | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
 Turkey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
 Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Fu Ting-Dong | China |
| 2004 | Mohammad J. Malakouti | Iran |
| 2005 | Alex E. Bustillo Pardey | Colombia |
| 2006 | Heong Kong-Luen | Philippines |
| 2007 | Muhammad Arshad | Pakistan |
| 2008 | Jei-Fu Shaw | Taiwan |
| 2009 | Huey Lang Yang | Taiwan |
| 2010 | Francisco Alfonso Larqué Saavedra[note 4] | Mexico |
| 2010 | Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov[note 4] | Uzbekistan |
| 2011 | Segenet Kelemu[note 4] | Ethiopia |
| 2011 | Zeyaur Rahman Khan[note 4] | India |
| 2012 | Jun Yu[note 4] | China |
| 2012 | Egamberdieva Dilfuza[note 4] | Uzbekistan |
| 2013 | Yong-Guan Zhu | China |
| 2014 | Fusuo Zhang | China |
| 2015 | Jagdish Ladha | India |
| 2015 | Feng-Min Li | China |
| 2016 | Ismail Cakmak | Turkey |
| 2018 | Dabing Zhang[1] | China |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Mysore A. Viswamitra | India |
| 1987 | Adolfo Martinez-Palomo | Mexico |
| 1988 | Francisco José Barrantes | Argentina |
| 1990 | Eduardo H. Rapoport | Argentina |
| 1991 | Ramon R. Latorre | Chile |
| 1992 | Tsou Chen-Lu | China |
| 1993 | Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella | Mexico |
| 1994 | Armando J. Parodi | Argentina |
| 1995 | Carlos S. Andreo[note 5] | Argentina |
| 1995 | Carlos Eduardo G. da Rocha Miranda[note 5] | Brazil |
| 1996 | Juan Carlos Castilla Zenobi[note 5] | Chile |
| 1996 | Asis Datta[note 5] | India |
| 1997 | Francisco Bolívar Zapata | Mexico |
| 1998 | Gabriel Guarneros | Mexico |
| 1999 | Raghavendra Gadagkar | India |
| 2000 | Alberto C. Frasch | Argentina |
| 2001 | Avadhesha Surolia | India |
| 2002 | Wang Zhizhen | China |
| 2003 | Rafael Palacios de la Lama | Mexico |
| 2004 | Jorge Kalil | Brazil |
| 2005 | Yang Huanming[note 5] | China |
| 2005 | Jerson L. Silva[note 5] | Brazil |
| 2006 | Pedro E. León Azofeifa | Costa Rica |
| 2007 | Lúcia Mendonça Previato | Brazil |
| 2008 | Carlos Arias Ortiz[note 5] | Mexico |
| 2008 | Susana López Charretón[note 5] | Mexico |
| 2009 | Lin He[note 5] | China |
| 2009 | Partha Pratim Majumder[note 5] | India |
| 2010 | Satyajit Mayor[note 5] | India |
| 2010 | Soo-Chen Cheng[note 5] | Taiwan |
| 2011 | Ana Belén Elgoyhen[note 5] | Argentina |
| 2011 | Valakunja Nagaraja[note 5] | India |
| 2012 | Ann-Shyn Chiang | Taiwan |
| 2013 | Xu Guoliang[note 5] | China |
| 2013 | Sue Duan Lin-Chao[note 5] | Taiwan |
| 2014 | Marcelo Rubinstein | Argentina |
| 2015 | Maria Isabel Colombo | Argentina |
| 2016 | Amitabha Chattopadhyay[note 5] | India |
| 2016 | Zhou Qi[note 5] | China |
| 2018 | Luisa Lina Villa[1] | Brazil |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Leopoldo De Meis[note 6] | Brazil |
| 1985 | Salimuzzaman Siddiqui[note 6] | Pakistan |
| 1986 | Saad S.M. Hassan | Egypt |
| 1987 | Chen Chuangtian | China |
| 1988 | Sukh Dev | India |
| 1990 | Mohammed Hilmy Elnagdi | Egypt |
| 1991 | Otto Richard Gottlieb | Brazil |
| 1992 | Manapurathu Verghese George | India |
| 1993 | Animesh Chakravorty[note 6] | India |
| 1993 | Giuseppe Cilento[note 6] | Brazil |
| 1994 | Padmanabhan Balaram[note 6] | India |
| 1994 | Huang Yao-Zeng[note 6] | China |
| 1996 | Enrique J. Baran | Argentina |
| 1996 | Henrique Eisi Toma | Brazil |
| 1997 | Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu | China |
| 1998 | Biman Bagchi | India |
| 1999 | Darshan Ranganathan | India |
| 2000 | Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju | India |
| 2001 | Kimoon Kim | Korea |
| 2002 | Peng Shie-Ming | Taiwan |
| 2003 | Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis | India |
| 2004 | Miguel A. Blesa | Argentina |
| 2005 | Krishna N. Ganesh | India |
| 2006 | Che Chi-Ming | China |
| 2007 | Kankan Bhattacharyya | India |
| 2008 | Dongyuan Zhao | China |
| 2009 | Wan Lijun[note 6] | China |
| 2009 | Swapan Kumar Ghosh[note 6] | India |
| 2010 | Yang Dan[note 6] | China |
| 2010 | Santanu Bhattacharya[note 6] | India |
| 2011 | Jairton Dupont[note 6] | Brazil |
| 2011 | Lei Jiang[note 6] | China |
| 2012 | Xiao-Ming Chen[note 6] | China |
| 2012 | Swapan K. Pati[note 6] | India |
| 2013 | Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh[note 6] | India |
| 2013 | Chung-Yuan Mou[note 6] | Taiwan |
| 2014 | Xie Yi | China |
| 2015 | Pi-Tai Chou | Taiwan |
| 2015 | Tessy María López Goerne | Mexico |
| 2016 | Zhao Yuliang | China |
| 2018 | Thalappil Pradeep[1] | India |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Kaigala Venkata Subbarao | India |
| 2004 | Adolpho J. Melfi | Brazil |
| 2005 | Zhu Rixiang | China |
| 2006 | Rengaswamy Ramesh | India |
| 2007 | Paulo Artaxo | Brazil |
| 2008 | Sun Jimin | China |
| 2009 | Rafael Navarro González | Mexico |
| 2010 | Anil Kumar Gupta[note 7] | India |
| 2010 | Alexander Kellner[note 7] | Brazil |
| 2011 | S. K. Satheesh[note 7] | India |
| 2011 | Wu Fuyuan[note 7] | China |
| 2012 | Patrick George Eriksson | South Africa |
| 2013 | Li Xia | China |
| 2014 | Sun-Lin Chung | Taiwan |
| 2015 | Piao Shilong | China |
| 2016 | Mario Hamuy | Chile |
| 2018 | Guochun Zhao[1] | China |
| 2018 | Alejandro Raga[1] | Mexico |
Carlos Artemio Coello Coello
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Mayra de la Torre | Mexico |
| 2004 | Li Aizhen | China |
| 2005 | Mauricio Terrones | Mexico |
| 2006 | Chang Chun-Yen | Taiwan |
| 2007 | Chih-Kung Lee | Taiwan |
| 2008 | Ashutosh Sharma | India |
| 2009 | Chen Liang-gee | Taiwan |
| 2010 | Vivek Borkar[note 8] | India |
| 2010 | Edgar D. Zanotto[note 8] | Brazil |
| 2011 | Lin Yi-bing | Taiwan |
| 2012 | Abdul Latiff Ahmad[note 8] | Malaysia |
| 2012 | Kalyanmoy Deb[note 8] | India |
| 2013 | Indranil Manna[note 8] | India |
| 2013 | Mohammad Ahmad Al-Nimr[note 8] | Jordan |
| 2014 | Kumaran Viswanathan[note 8] | India |
| 2014 | Chih-Yuan Lu[note 8] | Taiwan |
| 2015 | Upadrasta Ramamurty | India |
| 2016 | Carlos Artemio Coello Coello | Mexico |
| 2018 | Yu-Chee Tseng[1] | Taiwan |
| 2018 | Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay[1] | India |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Liao Shantao | China |
| 1986 | Mauricio M. Peixoto | Brazil |
| 1987 | Mudambai Seshachalu Narasimhan | India |
| 1988 | Jacob Palis | Brazil |
| 1990 | Wu Wen-Tsun | China |
| 1991 | Madabusi S. Raghunathan | India |
| 1992 | Manfredo do Carmo | Brazil |
| 1993 | Chang Kung-Ching | China |
| 1994 | Ricardo Mañé | Uruguay / Brazil |
| 1995 | Ibrahim A. Eltayeb [note 9] | Sultanate of Oman |
| 1995 | Carlos Segovia[note 9] | Argentina |
| 1996 | César Leopoldo Camacho[note 9] | Brazil |
| 1996 | K. R. Parthasarathy[note 9] | India |
| 1998 | Marcelo Viana | Brazil |
| 1999 | Servet Martinez | Chile |
| 2000 | Weiping Zhang | China |
| 2001 | Sundararaman Ramanan | India |
| 2002 | José Antonio de la Peña | Mexico |
| 2003 | Welington Celso de Melo | Brazil |
| 2004 | Long Yiming | China |
| 2005 | Parimala Raman | India |
| 2006 | Claudio Landim | Brazil |
| 2007 | Shrikrishna G. Dani | India |
| 2008 | Vasudevan Srinivas | India |
| 2009 | Enrique Pujals | Brazil |
| 2010 | Manindra Agrawal[note 9] | India |
| 2010 | Carlos Gustavo Moreira[note 9] | Brazil |
| 2011 | Shun-Jen Cheng[note 9] | Taiwan |
| 2011 | Patricio Luis Felmer[note 9] | Chile |
| 2012 | Fernando Codá Marques | Brazil |
| 2013 | Artur Avila | Brazil |
| 2014 | Ya-xiang Yuan | China |
| 2015 | Alicia Dickenstein | Argentina |
| 2016 | Lorenzo Justiniano Diaz Casado | Brazil |
| 2018 | Ricardo Guillermo Durán | Argentina |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Manuel Elkin Patarroyo | Colombia |
| 1990 | Sérgio Henrique Ferreira | Brazil |
| 1991 | Leonidas de Mello Deane[note 10] | Brazil |
| 1991 | Maria José von Paumgartten Deane[note 10] | Brazil |
| 1992 | Juan Carlos Fasciolo | Argentina |
| 1993 | Etim Moses Essien | Nigeria |
| 1994 | Suhayl J. Jabbur | Lebanon |
| 1995 | Dorairajan Balasubramanian[note 10] | India |
| 1995 | Iván Antonio Izquierdo[note 10] | Brazil |
| 1996 | Bhola Nath Dhawan | India |
| 1997 | Eduardo H. Charreau[note 10] | Argentina |
| 1997 | Charles O.N. Wambebe [note 10] | Nigeria |
| 1998 | Felix Konotey-Ahulu | Ghana |
| 1999 | Esper A. Cavalheiro | Brazil |
| 2000 | Rabia Hussain | Pakistan |
| 2001 | Rodolfo R. Brenner | Argentina |
| 2002 | Ranulfo Romo | Mexico |
| 2003 | Mayana Zatz | Brazil |
| 2004 | Shiv Kumar Sarin | India |
| 2005 | Shah M. Faruque | Bangladesh |
| 2006 | Jacinto Convit | Venezuela |
| 2007 | Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena | Brazil |
| 2008 | Salim Abdool Karim | South Africa |
| 2009 | Ricardo Gazzinelli | Brazil |
| 2010 | Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich | Argentina |
| 2011 | Alberto Kornblihtt | Argentina |
| 2012 | Quarraisha Abdool Karim[note 10] | South Africa |
| 2012 | George F. Gao[note 10] | China |
| 2013 | Mei-Hwei Chang[note 10] | Taiwan |
| 2013 | Turgay Dalkara[note 10] | Turkey |
| 2014 | Irene Oi Lin NG[note 10] | China |
| 2014 | Tse Wen Chang[note 10] | Taiwan |
| 2015 | Eduardo Arzt[note 10] | Argentina |
| 2015 | Ge Ri-Li[note 10] | China |
| 2016 | Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta | Pakistan |
| 2018 | Lynn Morris[1] | South Africa |
| 2018 | Seza Õzen[1] | Turkey |
.JPG)
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | E. C. G. Sudarshan | India |
| 1986 | Zhao Zhongxian | China |
| 1987 | Cesar Mansueto Giulio Lattes | Brazil |
| 1988 | Govind Swarup | India |
| 1990 | Tirupattur V. Ramakrishnan | India |
| 1991 | Francisco de la Cruz | Argentina |
| 1992 | Narendra Kumar | India |
| 1993 | Guo Kexin (K.H. Kuo) | China |
| 1994 | Girish S. Agarwal | India |
| 1995 | Ramanath Cowsik[note 11] | India |
| 1995 | Jayme Tiomno[note 11] | Brazil |
| 1996 | Fan Hai-fu[note 11] | China |
| 1996 | Enrique Tirapegui[note 11] | Chile |
| 1997 | Luis F. Rodríguez[note 11] | Mexico |
| 1997 | Ashoke Sen[note 11] | India |
| 1998 | B. Sriram Shastry | India |
| 1999 | Min Naiben | China |
| 2000 | Ajay Kumar Sood | India |
| 2001 | Luiz Davidovich | Brazil |
| 2002 | Deepak Dhar | India |
| 2003 | Rodolfo Gambini | Uruguay |
| 2004 | Spenta R. Wadia | India |
| 2005 | Wang Enge | China |
| 2006 | Dipankar Das Sarma | India |
| 2007 | Zhang Jie | China |
| 2008 | Predhiman Krishan Kaw[note 11] | India |
| 2008 | Ali Chamseddine[note 11] | Lebanon |
| 2009 | Gao Hongjun[note 11] | China |
| 2009 | Nathan Berkovits[note 11] | Brazil |
| 2010 | Xue Qikun | China |
| 2011 | Thanu Padmanabhan | India |
| 2012 | Juan Pablo Paz | Argentina |
| 2013 | Rajesh Gopakumar[note 11] | India |
| 2013 | Marcos Pimenta[note 11] | Brazil |
| 2014 | Daniel de Florian | Argentina |
| 2015 | Sandip Trivedi[note 11] | India |
| 2015 | Zhou Xingjiang[note 11] | China |
| 2016 | Shiraz Minwalla | India |
| 2018 | Daniel Mario Ugarte[1] | Brazil |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Rajah Rasiah | Malaysia |
| 2015 | Ayşe Buğra[note 12] | Turkey |
| 2015 | Zheng Xiaoying[note 12] | China |
| 2016 | Marilda Sotomayor | Brazil |
| 2018 | Alex Chika Ezeh[1] | Kenya |
| 2018 | Yansui Liu[1] | China |
- Shared prize
- Social Sciences Prize is also known as TWAS-Celso Furtado Prize
- Maria José von Paumgartten Deane was the first women recipient of the Prize
- Shared prize in Agricultural Sciences
- Shared prize in Biology
- Shared prize in Chemistry
- Shared prize in Earth Sciences
- Shared prize in Engineering Sciences
- Shared prize in Mathematics
- Shared prize in Medical Sciences
- Shared prize in Physics
- Shared prize in Social Sciences
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