Kalinga Prize recipients

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)

American anthropologist (1901-1978)

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality - Non-Daily.

Soviet physicist (1922-2001)

British astronomer (1915–2001)

Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)

German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)

English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)

Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)

British chemist (1920–2002)

British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)

Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist

Indian astrophysicist and writer (1938–2025)

French writer (1894–1977)

US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)

Soviet and Russian physicist, TV host (1928-2012)

French physicist

American mathematician (1894–1978)

UNESCO science award

French paleoanthropologist (1934–2022)

Russian naturalist and broadcaster

Indian physicist (1926–2017)

Italian science journalist (1928–2022)

Mexican astrophysicist

Pakistani nuclear physicist

Ghanaian female science professor and quiz host

Philippine politician

Vietnamese-American astrophysicist

British evolutionary embryologist (1899-1972)

Australian medical researcher, author, science communicator, radio commentator, television commentator

Finnish paleontologist (1924-1988)

British science writer (1931–2014)

German physician and journalist (1921–1989)

Brazilian physicist

silesian astrophysicist and astronomer (*1936)

American biophysicist (1898–1973)

French astrophysicist

Argentine chronobiologist

American science writer and museum director (1877–1956)

Armenian physician (1931–2010)

Sheikh Abdullah Al Muti Sharafuddin (1 January 1930 – 30 November 1998), known as Abdullah Al Muti, was a Bangladeshi educationalist and science writer. He wrote tough scientific ideas in an easy fashion suitable for children and teenagers. He became first Bangladeshi writer to win the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 1983. He had earned major national awards - Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1975, Ekushey Padak in 1985 and Independence Day Award in 1995. He wrote many science fiction stories like Akash(আকাশ)

British journalist and academic (1906–1982)

italo-brazilian physicist

Brazilian physician and scientist (1917-2010)

French physicist

Brazilian scientist (1907-2002)

Venezuelan physician (1920–2003)