Indian-American Scientists Bag White House Honour
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 23:54 IST   |    5 Comments
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Steve Jobs, Gordon Moore, David Packard and Dean Kamen are among the legends that have won the technology medal, while several science medal recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. Varadhan, an alumnus of Presidency College, Chennai and Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, won the award for his work in probability theory, specially his work on large deviations from anticipated random performance, which has revolutionized this field of study all through the second half of the twentieth century and become a foundation stone of both pure and practical likelihood. "The mathematical insights he developed have been applied in diverse fields including quantum field theory, population dynamics, finance, econometrics, and traffic engineering."
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Agrawal, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, won the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, for an unexpected record of innovations in improving the energy effectiveness and plummeting the cost of gas liquefaction and separation. The White House said, "These innovations have had significant positive impacts on electronic device manufacturing, liquefied gas production, and the supply of industrial gases for diverse industries," Baliga, an alumnus of IIT Chennai, also won the technology medal, for expansion and commercialization of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor and other power semiconductor devices that are extensively used in transportation, lighting, medicine, defense, and renewable energy generation systems.