L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
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The L'Oreal/UNESCO Awards for Women in Science aims to improve the position of women in science by recognizing, every year, outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. The awards are a result of a partnership between the French cosmetics company L'Oréal and UNESCO. The same partnership awards research fellowships to young women scientists engaged in exemplary and promising projects (UNESCO-L’ORÉAL Fellowships).
Recipients
1998 laureates:
- Grance Aladunni L. Taylor (Nigeria): Biochemistry
- Myeong Hee-Yu (South Korea): Microbiology
- Pascale Cossart (France): Bacteriology
- Gloria Montenegro (Chile): Botany
- Valerie Mizrahi (Nigeria): Molecular biology
- Tuneko Okasaki (Japan): Molecular biology
- Margarita Salas (Spain): Molecular biology
- Eugenia Maria Del Pino Veintimilla (Ecuador): Molecular biology
- Joanne Chori (USA): Molecular biology
- Adeyinka Gladys Falusi (Nigeria): Molecular genetics
- Suzanne Cory (Australia): Molecular genetics
- Anne McLaren (United Kingdom): Reproductive biology
- Mayana Zatz (Brazil): Molecular biology
- Joan Argetsinger Steitz (USA): Molecular biophysics and biochemistry
- Nagwa Meguid (Egypt): Genetics applied to the prevention of mental diseases
- Indira Nath (India): The treatment of leprosy
- Mary Osborn (Germany): Met6hods for the observation of cell structures
- Ana Maria Lopez Colome (Mexico): The prevention of blindness
- Shirley Tilghman (USA): Gene expression and parental origin of chromosomes
- Karimat El-Sayed (Egypt): Physics
- Fang-hua Li (China): Electron microscopy
- Ayse Erzan (Turkey): Condensed matter physics
- Mariana Weissmann (Argentina): Computational condensed matter physics
- Johanna M.H. Levelt Sengers (USA): Thermodynamics
- Jennifer Thomson (South Africa): "For work on transgenic plants resistant to drought and to viral infections, in an effort to respond to the continent's chronic food shortage."
- Lúcia Mendonça Previato (Brazil): "For studies which enable progress in the understanding, treatment and prevention of the Chagas disease."
- Philippa Marrack (United States) "For the characterization of lymphocyte T functions in the immune system and the discovery of superantigenes.
- Nancy Ip (China): "For discoveries concerning proteins which favour the growth and preservation of neurons in brain development."
- Christine Petit (France): "For research on the molecular and cellular bases of human hereditary deafness and other sensorial deficiencies."
- Zohra ben Lakhdar (Tunisia): "For experiments and models in infrared spectroscopy and its applications to pollution, detection and medicine."
- Fumiko Yonezawa (Japan): "Fir pioneering theory and computer simulations on amorphous semiconductors and liquid metals."
- Dominique Langevin (France): "For fundamental investigations on detergents, emulsions and foams."
- Belita Koiller (Brazil): "For innovative research on electrons in disordered matter such as glass."
- Myriam P. Sharachik (USA): "For important experiments on electrical conduction and transitions between metals and insulators."
- Habiba Bouhamed Chaabouni (Tunisia: "For her contribution to the analysis and prevention of hereditary disorders."
- Jennifer Graves (Australia): "For studies on the evolution of mammalian genomes."
- Christine van Broeckhoven (Netherlands): "For the genetic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases."
- Esther Orozco (Mexico): "For the discovery of the mechanisms and control of infections by amebas in the tropics."
- Pamela Bjorkman (USA): "For the discovery of how the immune system recognizes targets."
Statistics
Women from the following countries received the awards:- USA: 6 times
- France, Brazil and Nigeria: 3 times each
- Japan, China, Mexico, Australia, Egypt and Tunisia: 2 times each
- South Korea, Chile, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, UK, Turkey, South Africa, Netherlands and India: 1 time each
External links
- [For Women in Science]. L'Oréal Official Page of the Awards.
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