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Wednesday, 10th March 2010 (667 views)

Gold medals have been awarded to eight international scholars and scientists who have excelled in their fields of work over the last year.

The Saudi Arabia-based King Faisal Foundation's annual prizes of 22-c gold commemorative medals, money and a certificate were presented to experts from countries in Europe, the Middle East and North America by King Abdullah in a ceremony earlier this week.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, received the Service to Islam prize, while Professor Abderrahman El-Houari Hadj-Saleh of Algeria and Professor Ramzi Mounir Baalbaki of Lebanon jointly won the award for Arabic Language and Literature.

The co-winners of the medicine prize were Professor Reinhold Ganz of Germany and Canadian scientists Professor Jean-Pierre Pelletier and Professor Johanne Martel-Pelletier.

Finally, the prize for mathematics went to Professor Enrico Bombieri from the US and Professor Terence Chi-Shen Tao of Australia and the US.

The King Faisal Foundation was created by the sons of the King Faisal ibn Abd Al Aziz, who was Saudi Arabia's third monarch, in 1976.

Its King Faisal International Prize aims to highlight important topics and issues in various fields of the arts and science and reward those who focus on these.

 

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