{"id":24229,"date":"2024-06-14T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T04:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2025-04-07T08:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:32:02","slug":"kavli-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kavli-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavli Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is awarded in honour of <strong>Norwegian-American<\/strong> businessman and philanthropist <strong>Fred Kavli <\/strong>(1927-2013).<\/li>\n<li>The Kavli Prizes are awarded in <strong>three areas:<\/strong> astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience \u2014 the largest, the smallest, and the most complex. The inaugural prize was announced in <strong>2008<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Winners in 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ASTROPHYSICS<\/strong>: This year\u2019s prize for astrophysics has been awarded to David Charbonneau, and Sara Seager for <strong>discoveries of exoplanets,<\/strong> and the characterisation of their atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NANOSCIENCE<\/strong>: Robert Langer, Armand Paul Alivisatos, and Chad Mirkin were given the prize <strong>for nanoscience for biomedical applications breakthroughs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NEUROSCIENCE<\/strong>: The prize in neuroscience has been awarded to Nancy Kanwisher, Winrich Freiwald, and Doris Tsao for their collective effort over decades <strong>to map the linkage between facial recognition and the brain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is sustainable development?<\/h3>\n<p>Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/explained-kavli-prize-9391030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explained: All about Kavli Prize, mirroring Nobel in fields of astrophysics, neuroscience, and nanoscience<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavli Prize is awarded in honour of Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist Fred Kavli (1927-2013)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24229","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\/24229","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=24229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}