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Dr. Ralph L. Mc Nutt, Jr. Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide Publication

Mar 5, 2022 by Praveen 0 Comments #Dr. Ralph L. Mc Nutt, #Lifetime Achievement Award, #Strathmore's

Dr. Ralph L. McNutt, Jr. of Ellicott City, Maryland has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide Edition for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of education.

About Dr. Ralph L. McNutt, Jr.
Dr. Ralph L. McNutt is a physicist and a principal professional staff member of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He specializes in space physics.

As part of a science team, he works on NASA missions. Currently, he is a co-investigator on NASA’s Voyager, New Horizon’s and Parker Solar Probe operating missions and on NASA’s Europa Clipper, now under development. Previously, he was a science team member of the past Cassini mission to Saturn and project scientist for the past MESSENGER mission to Mercury.

A recipient of many awards, Dr. McNutt was a national finalist in the competition for the 1987-1988 class of White House Fellows. He has received 13 NASA Group Achievement Awards as part of numerous teams. He is a recipient of the APL Lifetime Publication Award (2020), the NASA silver Achievement Medal to the Parker Solar Probe Team (2019), the IAA Laurels for Team Achievement Awards for New Horizons (Team award 2016) and for MESSENGER Team award 2012), and minor planet 172191 Ralphmcnutt is named for him.

Dr. McNutt is the co-author of over 220 articles and has given over 150 professional and popular talks including press conferences and live interviews. He has served on many NASA and National Academy panels, including co-chair of the National Academies Studies on Radioisotope Power Systems (2009) and NASA’s Large Strategic Science Missions (2017). He is a member and current trustee of the International Academy of Astronautics and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the American Astronomical Society. He has held various NASA grants and served on numerous NASA review and planning panels, including science and technology definition teams for Solar Probe (twice) and Interstellar Probe.

Dr. McNutt received his B.S. in physics, summa cum laude, from Texas A&M University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1980.

For further information on the most recent Interstellar Probe study for NASA, visit Interstellar Probe (jhuapl.edu)

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Aditya Puri conferred Lifetime Achievement Award by Euromoney Awards of Excellence 2020

Sep 14, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Aditya Puri, #Euromoney Awards, #HDFC Bank, #Lifetime Achievement Award

In a first-of-its-kind recognition for an Indian corporate leader, Aditya Puri, MD, HDFC Bank was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award by Euromoney Awards of Excellence 2020. The publication has recognised the iconic leader for his skills in building a world-class Indian bank at a time where there were no similar institutions in existence.

The coveted honour from the global financial magazine in recognition of his illustrious career
in banking comes just ahead of his retirement next month.

In its editorial, the magazine writes, “Aditya Puri’s success since building HDFC Bank in 1994 can be measured, in part, by the quality of its absences: the absence of scandal, the absence of any credit bust and the absence of drama. Indian banking generally is not short of any of these things, lurching between dismal creditor catastrophes amid cycles of bailouts and occasional fraud-related arrests, but HDFC Bank has done nothing but grow.”

“I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of all our stakeholders who have been with us in this journey,” said Aditya Puri. “I humbly accept this recognition on behalf of each one of them. And the journey wouldn’t have been as good without the support of one and all who have been a part of this.”

The awards are a rich recognition of Mr. Puri’s contribution to the following:

• Unremitting focus on the customer,
• Creating value for all stakeholders,
• Giving back to society and
• All the above helping him create a highly respected and trustworthy brand.

Euromoney further writes, “It has avoided the low-hanging fruit of lucrative but perilous lending to unsteady conglomerates, letting others take the short-term spoils and the longterm consequences, but while doing so it has somehow grown to be the biggest bank by market capitalization in the country, twice the size of the State Bank of India. By 2012 investors were so enamoured with the bank that it had the highest price-to-book ratio, not just in India but the world.”

What is also remarkable is that throughout this journey, the Bank has stayed true to its core values of customer focus, operational excellence, product leadership, people, and sustainability