Ganindu Nanayakkara
Ganindu Nanayakkara is a Sri Lankan innovator, software engineer and the inventor of I-helmet.[1] He was also awarded a cash price of US$500,000 for his inspiral invention of I-helmet. He received the cash price for emerging as first runnersup in the transportation category in the Verizon 2015 Powerful Answers Award contest.[2][3]
In order to honour his invention,a main belt asteroid was named as "26441 Nanayakkara"(2000 AX33) in 2010.[4]
Ganindu Nanayakkara was also awarded first place in the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his computer-science project. He attends the Ananda College, Colombo, Sri Lanka.[5][6][7][8]
See also[edit]
Meanings of minor planet names: 26001–27000
References[edit]
- ↑ "ihelmet". ihelmet. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ↑ "Sri Lanka's Ganindu gets US$ 500,000 for iHelmet". TechAdvisor.lk. 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ↑ "Congratulations Ganindu Nanayakkara for making Sri Lanka proud - Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology". Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ↑ Chamberlin, Alan. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ↑ "Ananda College inventor won international computer award". Student Sri Lanka Education. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ↑ "Ganindu Nanayakkara – Disrupt Asia". www.disruptasia.today. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ↑ "26441 Nanayakkara". Vikipedio (in Esperanto). 2016-09-09.
- ↑ "Sri Lankan entrepreneurs iHelmet sensor up for $1 million grant". www.adaderana.lk. Retrieved 2017-03-16. C1 control character in
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