Iranian women top on inventor list
Sat, 10 May 2008 10:13:45
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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
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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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