WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
Indian-born researcher Dinesh Bharadia (28) has won the
prestigious 2016 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award
for his contribution to radio waves. He was chosen for the award
for his contribution to send and receive radio (wireless) signals,
including mobile telephony and data on the same channel (wave).
His duplex radio technology has disproved a long-held assumption
that it is not possible for a radio to transmit and receive on the
same frequency band because of the interference.
Indian-American Abraham Verghese selected for
National Humanities Medal 2015:
Indian-American physician-author, Abraham Verghese
(61) has been selected for the prestigious 2015
National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama
will bestow the honour upon Verghese along with 11
others recipient’s at a ceremony to be held in
Washington on 21st September 2016. He has been
selected for the prestigious award for reminding us
that the patient is the centre of the medical enterprise.
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