CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Vikram Vishal has won the prestigious Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal for Young Scientist (2017).

Detailed explanation-2: -“The INSA Young Scientists Award, considered to be the highest recognition of promise, creativity, and excellence in a young scientist, is made annually to those distinguished for these attributes as evidenced by their research work carried out in India”.

Detailed explanation-3: -INSA awards the Young Scientist Medal each year. The award is a prestigious and a very competitive award given to Indian scientists below the age of 35 and is considered to be ‘the highest recognition of promise, creativity and excellence in a young scientist’.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Young Scientist Awards (YSA) recognises young researchers, aged 35 years and below, who are actively engaged in R&D in Singapore, and who have shown great potential to be world-class researchers in their fields of expertise.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shane O’Connor and Liam Carew, aged 18 and in sixth year in the Abbey School, Tipperary won with their project Assessing the impact of second-level education on key aspects of adolescents’ life and development.