UNESCO Science Prize
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The UNESCO Science Prize is a biennal prize awarded by UNESCO to "a person or group of persons for an outstanding contribution they have made to the technological development of a developing member state or region through the application of scientific and technological research (particularly in the fields of education, engineering and industrial development)."
The candidates for the Science Prize are proposed to the Director-General of UNESCO by the governments of member states or by non-governmental organizations. All proposals are judged by a panel of six scientists and engineers. The prize consists in US$ 15,000 awarded together with a UNESCO Albert Einstein Silver Medal during a ceremony organized in odd years (2001, 2003, etc.), jointly with UNESCO’s General Conference.
Past winners
| 1968 | ||
| UK Robert Simpson Silver | for his discovery of a process for the demineralization of sea water | |
| 1970 | ||
| Mexico International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre Philippines | for their work which made it possible to produce, in the space of a few years, improved strains of cereals | |
| 1972 | ||
| USSR Viktor Kovda Austria |
for his theory on the hydromorphic origin of the soils of the great plains of Asia, Africa, Europe and [America for their development of the L-D process designed for recovery of steel from low phosphorus pig iron | |
| 1976 | ||
| France Alfred Champagnat | for his findings on the low-cost mass production of new proteins from petroleum | |
| 1978 | ||
| UK A team of research workers from the Lawes Agricultural Trust | for their work on synthetic insecticides related to natural pyrethrum | |
| 1980 | ||
| Ireland A group of 4 scientists from the Medical Research Council of Ireland Costa Rica |
for their work on the synthesis of an anti-leprosy agent, B-633 for his work on the relationship between malnutrition and infection, particularly in infants | |
| 1983 | ||
| UK Roger Whitehead | for his work on the role of maternal nutrition and lactation in infant growth | |
| 1985 | ||
| Australia
A group of 6 scientists from the Australian Research Group of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization | For their work on the biological control of Salvinia molesta infestations in the Sepik River Basin of Papua New Guinea | |
| 1987 | ||
| China Yuan Longping National Hybrid Cooperative Research Group | for his work leading to the creation of an hybrid rice with high yield potential | |
| 1989 | ||
| Brazil Johanna Döbereiner Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária ([EMBRAPA]) | for her work in exploiting biological nitrogen fixation as the major source of nitrogen in tropical agriculture | |
| 1991 | ||
| Venezuela A group of researchers and engineers from the Instituto Tecnológico Venezolano del Petróleo S.A. | for their contribution to the development of hydrocracking distillation and hydrotreatment technology | |
| 1993 | ||
| Mexico O.A. Novaro-Peñalosa | for his contribution to the phenomenon of catalysis | |
| 1995 | ||
| China Wang Xuan Informatics Institute, Beijing University | for his contribution to the Chinese photocomposition system | |
| 1997 | ||
| Mexico Marcos Moshinsky Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico | for his work in nuclear physics | |
| 1999 | ||
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Pakistan Brazil | for his work in organic chemistry which has contributed to the development of plant-based therapies for cancer, AIDS and diabetes
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| 2001 | ||
| Mexico Baltasar Mena Iniesta Institute of Materials Research and the Faculty of Engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) | for his ability to relate his research in rheology and new materials to technological applications | |
| 2003 | ||
| Thailand Somchart Soponronnarit | ||
Address
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email: wcs.webmaster@unesco.org
External links
- [UNESCO Science Prize] webpage
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