The five-day Nobel Prize Series 2017 will kickstart from January 9 that will witness to nine Nobel laureates taking part in conference, lectures, roundtables and other meetings together with experts and students from several universities.
The event will take place at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru; The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi; IIT Gandhinagar; Gujarat University & MS University, Vadodara. In the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the event will kickstart with the inauguration of month-long exhibition— The Nobel Prize: Ideas Changing the World at Science City, Ahmedabad, that will take the visitors through the history of the Nobel Prize.
The Nine Nobel laureates are Prof David Gross, Physics 2004; Prof Michel Hartmut, Chemistry 1988; Prof Serge Haroche, Physics 2012; Prof William Moerner, Chemistry 2014; Prof Ventrakraman Ramakrishnan, Chemistry 2009; Prof Richard Roberts, Physiology or Medicine 1993; Prof Randy Schekman, Physiology or Medicine 2013; Prof Harold Varmus, Physiology or Medicine 1989 and Prof Ada Yonath, Chemistry 2009.
For more information, log on to http://www.nobelprize.org/india2017.