{"id":18267,"date":"2023-12-17T04:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18267"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:20:34","slug":"nyholm-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nyholm-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyholm prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nyholm prize<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is awarded to inspirational, innovative and\u00a0dedicated individuals or teams making a substantial and sustained impact\u00a0within education.<\/li>\n<li>It celebrates individuals working in primary, secondary, further education, and higher education, encompassing teachers, technicians, and more.<\/li>\n<li>It recognises a major national or international research or innovation contribution to the field of\u00a0chemical science education.<\/li>\n<li>This prize was established to commemorate the life and work of\u00a0Sir Ronald Nyholm, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1968 to 1970.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0awarded annually.<\/li>\n<li>The prize alternates between being open to nominees both in the UK and Ireland and internationally, and open only to nominations from the UK and Ireland.<\/li>\n<li>For 2023, the prize was open to nominees\u00a0based anywhere in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The winner(s) receives\u00a0\u00a35000, a medal and a certificate.<\/li>\n<li>The winner(s) will complete a series of lectures or workshops in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>The winner(s) will be chosen by the\u00a0Education Prize Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Chemistry?<\/h3>\n<p>Chemistry is a branch of natural science that deals principally with the properties of substances, the changes they undergo, and the natural laws that describe these changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/mumbai-professor-bags-royal-society-of-chemistrys-nyholm-prize\/article67634487.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mumbai professor bags Royal Society of Chemistry\u2019s Nyholm prize<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyholm prize celebrates individuals working in primary, secondary, further education, and higher education, encompassing teachers, technicians, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}