UNESCO Science Prize

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The UNESCO Science Prize is a biennial 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 of US$15,000, awarded together with a UNESCO Albert Einstein Silver Medal at a ceremony held in odd years (2001, 2003, etc.), jointly with UNESCO’s General Conference.

[edit] 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 International Rice Research Institute	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 Group of 9 researchers	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 Leonardo Mata	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 six 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 México	for his work in nuclear physics
1999
Pakistan Atta ur Rahman Director, H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi Brazil José Leite Lopes Co-founder, Latin American School of Physics and Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas	for his work in organic chemistry which has contributed to the development of plant-based therapies for cancer, AIDS and diabetes for his contribution to the development of physics in Latin America
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	for research on areas of renewable energy and drying technology.
2005
Mexico Alexander Balankin Fractal Mechanics Group at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico(IPN)[1]	for his pioneer contributions in development of fractal mechanics and their technological applications that have provided great benefits to Mexico and worldwide [2]