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Information about the WOSCO Gold Medal
Gold medal of WOSCO is the highest award of the World Organization for Scientific Cooperation.
Gold medal of WOSCO is awarded to scientists, specialists, pedagogues, public figures and statesmen for outstanding service in development of science and education.
Persons awarded with the gold medal of WOSCO in 2009:
THE BOARD OF WOSCO
HAS AWARDED
the Academician of AS of the USSR and RAS, Professor,
Doctor of geological-mineralogical sciences
Victor Yefimovich Khain
(Moscow, Russia)
With the WOSCO Gold Medal
for outstanding service in development of
earth sciences and education.
April 21, 2009, UK, London
Victor Yefimovich Khain
Academician of the USSR AS and RAS,
Honoured Professor of M. V. Lomonosov MSU,
Doctor of geological-mineralogical sciences,
Honorary President of WOSCO,
Honorary President of International Academy of Science H&E
Victor Yefimovich Khain was born in the capital of Azerbaijan – in Baku, on 26 February, 1914. He graduated from the Geologic-research Department of the Mining Faculty of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (now Oil Academy).
Academician of the AS of the USSR, Academician of RAS, Laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, Victor Khain is the author of more than 1000 scientific works, including about 60 fundamental monographs.
V. E. Khain is an honorable doctor of the Pier and Mary Curie Paris University, honorable member of the European Academy of Sciences, full member of the International Academy of Science H&E, member of the New-York Academy, honorable member of French, London, Bulgarian and American geological societies, member of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and a corresponding member of the International Committee on the History of Geological Sciences.
Academician V. Y. Khain was awarded the A. P.Karpinskiy gold medal, the Royal Belgium Academy of Science’s P. Furmarye gold medal, the Germany Geological Society’s Steinman medal, the French Geological Society’s Prestvich medal, the World Organization for Scientific Cooperation’s (WOSCO) Gold Medal and Diploma of the First Degree, and the International Academy of Science Health and Ecology’s Nobel Prize Laureate Pavlov gold pin. In 2007 the Academician Victor Khain was chosen as Honorable President of International Academy of Science H&E (Austria, Innsbruck).
In 2007 the Academician Victor Khain was chosen as Honorable President of International Academy of Science H&E (Austria, Innsbruck).
In 2009 the Academician Victor Khain was chosen as the Honorable President of the World Organization for Scientific Cooperation (WOSCO, London).
The world-famous scientist in the sphere of geotectonics and geodynamics, and participant and organizer of more than 600 scientific international and national congresses, conferences and meetings, has been to more than 50 countries of the world.
THE BOARD OF WOSCO
HAS AWARDED
His Royal Highness Sultan and Governor
of Indonesian Special Region Yogyakarta
Hamengku Buwono X
(Yogyakarta, İndonesia)
with the WOSCO Gold Medal
for outstanding service in development of
international scientific cooperation
(For development of the Global Network for the Forecasting
of Earthquakes in Indonesia)
His Royal Highness Sultan and Governor
of Indonesian Special Region Yogyakarta
Hamengku Buwono X
His Royal Highness Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X (also seen as Hamengkubuwana) (born BRM Herjuno Darpito, 2 April 1946 in Yogyakarta) is the current monarch of the historical Yogyakarta Sultanate in Indonesia, and is currently also the elected governor of the modern Yogyakarta Special Region. He was inaugurated on 3 October 1998.
According to special status granted to the Yogyakarta state when the Republic of Indonesia was formed, the hereditary monarch is to hold the position of governor of the province. In 1998 the central government required an election be held for the post of governor, and His Royal Highness Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X was elected by the province's assembly.
THE BOARD OF WOSCO
HAS AWARDED
the Academician of IAS and RAMS, Professor,
Doctor of medical science
Karl Hecht
(Berlin, Germany)
With the WOSCO Gold Medal
for outstanding service in development of
medical science and education.
21.04.2009, UK, London
Prof.Dr. Karl Hecht
Academician of IAS and RAMS,
Professor,
Doctor of medical science,
Head
of the WOSCO Scientific Commission on Medicine
(Berlin, Germany)
| 1957-1977: | Scientific Director of the Department of Stress and Hypertension in the Central Institute for Heart and Circulation Research at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Buch; |
| 1964-1977: | Deputy Director of the Central Institute for Heart-Circulation Research, Berlin-Buch; |
| 1972-1990: | Coordinator ‘Chronobiology and Chronomedicine’ of the Space Medicine and Biological Work; Group ‘Interkosmos’; |
| 1977-1988: | Establishment and directorship of the independent Department of Neuropathophysiology at the Charitÿ der Humboldt-University in Berlin; |
| 1977-1991: | Establishment and directorship of the Space Medicine and Biological Centres at the Berliner Charitÿ; |
| 1983: | Establishment and directorship of the Sleep Laboratory at the Charité (3 Chairs); |
| 1988-1991: | Foundation and Directorship of the Institute for Pathophysiology at the Charité der Humboldt-University in Berlin; |
| 1990: | Foundation of the Sleep Medicine Centre and Leadership of the Charité der Humboldt-University in Berlin; |
| 1991: | Awarded the title of Professor Emeritus; |
| 1992: | Co-founder of the Russian Section of the International Academy of Sciences; |
| 1995-2000: | Co-founder and Medical Director of the I.S.F. Institute for Stress Research GmbH, Berlin; |
| 2000: | Founder of the Institute for Psychosocial Health; |
| 2001: | Co-founder of the Azerbaijan Section of the International Academy of Sciences H&E; |
| 2008: | Head of the WOSCO Scientific Commission on Medicine; |
THE BOARD OF WOSCO
HAS AWARDED
The deputy of Parliament of Azerbaijan, Former Speaker
of the Parliament of Azerbaijan (1996-2005),
Academician of International
Academy of Science H&E (Austria, Innsbruck)
Prof.Dr. Murtuz Alasgarov
(Baku, Azerbaijan)
with the WOSCO Gold Medal
for outstanding service in development of
science and education
21.04.2009, UK, London
Prof.Dr. Murtuz Alasgarov
The deputy of Parliament of Azerbaijan,
Former Speaker of the Parliament of Azerbaijan
(1996-2005), Academician of International
Academy of Science H&E (Austria, Innsbruck)
Prof. Dr. Murtuz Alasgarov was born 20 September 1928. During many years Prof. Murtuz Alasgarov was at the head of the most authoritative University of Azerbaijan - Baku State University. And over this period he made an important contribution to development of science and education, the training of highly skilled specialists for Azerbaijan. Afterwards, Prof. M. Alasgarov was a Speaker of the Parliament of Azerbaijan during many years (1996-2005), and for that period his knowledge and great experience as a scientist and organizer allowed him to work out and approve many important laws which correspond to international law. His scientific knowledge in the sphere of jurisprudence has been of use in forming of constitutional and international law in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
www.murtuz-alasgarov.wosco.org
THE BOARD OF WOSCO
HAS AWARDED
President of Pakistan Academy of Science,
Advisor on Science Technology
in the Planning Commission
with the status of Minister of State
Dr.Ishfaq Ahmad
(Islamabad, Pakistan)
with the WOSCO Gold Medal
for outstanding service in development of
science and education
April 21, 2009, UK, London
Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad
President of Pakistan Academy of Science,
Advisor on Science & Technology
in the Planning Commission
with the status of Minister of State
Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad (Urdu: اشفاق احمد) Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Nishan-i-Imitiaz, (born 3 November 1930) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and well-known educationist of Pakistan. He played an important role in establishing of the research institutes in the field of nuclear sciences, notably nuclear physics, in Pakistan. Ishfaq Ahmad is considered one of the top nuclear physicists in Pakistan. He is currently President of Pakistan Academy of Science, Advisor on Science in the Planning Commission with the status of Minister of State, and was the chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) from 1991-2001. Ishfaq Ahmad played an important role in Pakistan's nuclear program, and considered one of the pioneers of Pakistan's both civilian and military purpose nuclear program. During his stay in PAEC, he was considered to be the one of the central figures of Pakistan's nuclear program. He rose to national fame in May 1998 when he headed PAEC as a chairman while conducted the country's successful nuclear tests in Balochistan.
THE BOARD OF WOSCO
HAS AWARDED
Director of Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota,
Mayo Hospital, Dept of Laboratory Medicine
Prof.Dr.Franz Halberg
(Minnesota, USA)
with the WOSCO Gold Medal
for outstanding service in development of
science and education
April 21, 2009, UK, London
Prof. Franz Halberg, M.D., Dr. h.c.
Director, Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota,
Mayo Hospital, Dept of Laboratory Medicine, Minneapolis Campus,
Minneapolis, USA.
Franz Halberg (born July 5, 1919) is a scientist and the founder of modern chronobiology. He first began his experiments in the 1940s and later founded the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota. Halberg published many papers in the serials of the History Commission of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), edited by Wilfried Schröder. He also published in "Wege zur Wissenschaft, Pathways to Science", edited by Wilfried Schröder his biography. He is a member of many international bodies, he has five titles as Dr. honoris causa, and was a member of the Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
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