Infosys Prize – Statutes

The Infosys Prize - Statutes

The Infosys Prize in each of the five categories shall be awarded to a person who, in the opinion of the award jury, has made outstanding contributions – fundamental or applied – in any field of mathematical sciences, physical sciences, engineering and computer sciences, life sciences and social sciences. The Prize intends to recognize contributions of extraordinary depth and influence in these sciences.
Prizes in all five categories shall follow the same calendar.
The Prize can be given for an outstanding invention or discovery or for a cumulative body of work.
Preference will be given to recent work (over the last 5 – 10 years), to encourage active researchers conducting contemporary research.
Self-nominations will not be accepted.
The nominated candidate’s work should have been conducted in India and should have had a positive impact in India, or it should have the potential to make a positive impact in India.
Candidates may be citizens of India or persons of Indian origin. However, it is important that they are residents of India at the time of conducting research for which they have been nominated. Candidates of non-Indian origin may also be considered provided that the work which is nominated for the award has been conducted in India and has had a positive impact in India.
It is recommended that the candidate be 50 years of age or less as on October 31, 2009. However, in exceptional cases, the jury may consider candidates up to the age of 55 on a discretionary basis.
In any given year, the Prize may be awarded to a group of individuals. The eligibility criteria of residence and age applicable to individual winners shall apply to each individual in the group.
Prize winners will be selected by the respective jury, and the decision of the jury shall be final.
The trustees of the Infosys Science Foundation shall invite a person of repute in the relevant field to chair the jury for that particular category. The jury chair shall choose other jurors to complete the jury for that specific category. The tenure of the chair shall be three years, and each individual juror shall serve for one year.
If the jury does not find suitable candidates, the Prize will not be awarded in that year.
The Prize shall consist of a cash award of Rs. 50 lakh (Indian Rupees Fifty Lakh), a citation and a medallion. If a team is selected to win the award, the prize money shall be equally shared by the team members and each individual member of the team shall be awarded a separate citation and medal.
There will be a single winner in a category in all categories. However, categories like Physical Sciences and Social Sciences may have more than one winner, but cannot exceed two winners. In the event that the prize is to be shared by two winners, they must not be from the same sub category within the category. For instance, joint winners in Social Sciences cannot both be from History or both from Economics. There can be one winner from each of these two separate sub categories of the Social Sciences Prize.
In cases where there are joint winners, the prize money will be equally shared by the two joint winners and each individual winner shall be awarded a separate citation and medal.
The Prize will be awarded once a year.
Please refer to the nomination section on www.infosys-science-foundation.com for the nomination form and process.

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