Six scientists win Infosys Prize 2020 for research 'improving the world'

The prize consists of a gold medal, a citation and a purse of $100,000

The Infosys Prize for 2020 will go to six scientists for their research that has the "the potential to improve our world".

The winners are Hari Balakrishnan, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for engineering and computer Science; Prachi Deshpande, of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences for humanities; Rajan Sankaranarayanan, of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology for life sciences, Sourav Chatterjee, of Stanford University for mathematical sciences; Arindam Ghosh, of Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru for physical sciences, and Raj Chetty, of Harvard University for social sciences. 

“Developed countries have succeeded mainly by improving their higher education and