Rahul R Nair, Mehul Malik, Tanmay Bharat are among the 9 recipients of this year’s Blavatnik Awards for their pioneering work in the fields of chemical, physical and life sciences.

• They will be honored and receive grants totalling 480,000 pounds at a black-tie gala dinner and award ceremony in London on February 27.
• Professor Nair, a materials physicist at the University of Manchester, was named Laureate in Physical Sciences & Engineering for developing novel membranes based on two-dimensional (2D) materials that will enable energy-efficient separation and filtration technologies.
• A Quantum physicist and Professor of Physics, Professor Mehul Malik, is advancing quantum communications at Heriot-Watt University through revolutionary techniques that harness high-dimensional entanglement — a complex quantum physics phenomenon.