Six Nobel laureates to attend Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2017

Mumbai: Six Nobel laureates, including Indian-origin structural biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, have agreed to be part of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in January next year.

American Nobel prize-winning scientist Harold E Varmus, American physical chemist and chemical physicist William Esco Moerner, American cell biologist Randy Wayne Schekman, Israeli crystallographer Ada E Yonath and American theoretical physicist David Jonathan Gross are the other Nobel-winning scientists who would be present at the biennial event.

Ramakrishnan shared the Nobel in chemistry with Thomas A Steitz in 2009.

The laureates would be part of the Nobel Prize Series Exhibition and Nobel Laureate Symposium which are happening for the first time in India at Vibrant Gujarat summit, an official statement here said.

The symposium is to be attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 10, 2017, at Gandhinagar.

Under the programme, Nobel laureates will engage with students on new ideas in science and will hold conference, lectures and roundtables.

Besides the conference and meeting events, Nobel prize series will feature a 5-week long exhibition at Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad.

PTI