Iranian women top on inventor list Sat, 10 May 2008 10:13:45 http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=55009§ionid=3510208
Iranian female inventors shine among 25 countries Iran's women inventors have received 23 medals at the Korea International Women's Invention Exposition, coming at the top of the list. Bagging 12 gold medals, 5 silver and 6 bronze, Iranian women inventors gained the first place among 25 countries participating at the international event. Mehrnaz Golchinfar, has invented an electricity generator system for Third World countries. Her power station, free of environmental pollution, was selected as the best invention and received the special jury award. Sonia Saberi's nano-composite earned her the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Award. Maryam Eslami's implement for reparation and surgery of osseous diseases in olecranon grabbed the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA) Award. Some of twenty women inventors from Iran competed with participants from 25 other countries across the world at the prestigious festival held in the South Korean capital of Seoul. Iranian Woman scientist takes physics prize Sat, 17 May 2008 06:07:16 http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=56088§ionid=3510208 An Iranian scientist has won the Young Scientist Prize in Particle Physics at an international contest on pure and applied physics. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has chosen Dr Yasaman Farzan as this year's top scientist, ISNA reported. The prize has been established recently and is awarded every two years to a young scientist who has made greatest achievements in the field of practical or theoretical physics, ISNA reported on Friday. The nominees for the prize must not have more than eight years experience of research work after their PhD. Farzan, educated in Tehran's Sharif University, is to receive the award at the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2008) which is to be held in Philadelphia, USA on July 30th-August 5th 2008. The IUPAP prize includes an IUPAP medal, a certificate citing the recipient's scientific achievements and a honorary cash award which will be presented at the 34th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2008) Philadelphia, USA, July 30th-August 5th, 2008.
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