As many as nine Nobel laureates including Gujarat-educated Venkatraman Ramkrishnan would use eighth edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) to be held in the second week of January 2017 as platform for knowledge sharing platform.
“The session with Nobel laureates – a first in India – is among the most awaited events in VGGS 2017. The event involving Nobel laureates is planned further to the tripartite MoU signed by the Nobel Media AB (Sweden), the Government of India and Government of Gujarat,” said Gujarat’s Chief Secretary JN Singh, adding that the five week long Nobel Prize Series exhibition at Gujarat Science City will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9th January next year. Singh further said that the exhibition would help to acquire knowledge and unparalleled exposure to students and academicians during their interaction with Nobel laureates.
The Nobel series exhibition would cover the Nobel Prize and Alfred Nobel–whose philosophy and lifelong collection funds and prizes. Besides, the exhibits will also cover themes of Nobel Prize over decades, in our daily lives and the future.
“The Nobel Prize winner scientists going to present during VGGS 2017 are Dr Richard Robert (Medicine, 1993), Dr Harold Varmus (Medicine 1989), Dr David Gross (Physics 2004), Dr Serge Haroche (Physics 2012), Dr Randy Schekman (Medicine 2013), Dr WE Moerner (Chemistry, 2014), Dr HC Hartmut Michel (Chemistry, 1988) and Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishna (Chemistry, 2009). These scientists would take part in panel discussion on ‘Science for Humankind’ and ‘Science as the Engine for Economic Growth’. These two events will provide a golden opportunity for science enthusiasts, students, researchers and scholars to know their textbook heroes and bask in the glow of their wisdom,” said Dhananjay Dwivedi, secretary Science and technology, Government of Gujarat.