Blaise Pascal Medal in Biology and Life Sciences
Howard Green, USA
In recognition of his outstanding work on the development of cultivation
of human epidermal cells to generate large scale autologous skin transplant.
He discovered and developed to perfection his method to restore the skin of
3rd degree burn victims who were too severely burnt for conventional skin
grafting. In the last 20 years this method has saved the lives of tens of
thousands of burn victims all over the world.
Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry
Frans Carl de Schryver, Belgium
In recognition of his outstanding contribution to the study of photochemical
polymerization, of dynamic processes inducing either photophysical or
photochemical patways. He studied systems involving polymers but also crystals
at the liquid-solid interface and developed techniques to detect single
molecules.
Blaise Pascal Medal in Computational Science
Oscar H. Ibarra, USA
In recognition of his
outstanding contributions in several areas of computational science, including
theory of computing, design and analysis of algorithms, computational
complexity, parallel computing, VLSI computation, formal verification, and
membrane computing.
Blaise Pascal Medal in Earth Sciences
Sven Erik Jørgensen, Danemark
In recognition of his outstanding contributions in the fields of
ecological modeling, management of ecosystems, ecosystem theory, ecological
engineering and ecological thermodynamics. He is one of the few
multidisciplinary researchers that has understood how to integrate several
disciplines to solve ecological and environmental problems. Sven Erik
Jørgensen has been able to integrate ecology (particularly systems ecology),
with management and technological issues (ecological engineering) and
thermodynamics and has developed ecological models as an integration tool.
Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Sciences
Alexander N. Guz, Ukraine
In recognition of his outstanding achievements in fundamental aspects of
modern mechanics. He personally developed the theory of composite materials
including all levels of composite material structure: macro, meso, and
micro. He is also one well-known leader in the three-dimensional linearized
theory of stability of solids.
Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics
Edward Layer, Poland
In recognition of his outstanding personal contribution to metrology of
dynamical systems. Prof. Layer has made seminal contribution in elaboration
of the general calibration theory of measuring systems intended for
measurement of dynamic signals. Practical application of this theory create
the basis for determining dynamic accuracy classes of different measurement
systems applied in many scientific fields e.g. in electrical metrology,
geodesy, diagnostic systems in medicine , meteorology and others, for which
dynamic accuracy is not given by the producers and for which the method of
such accuracy determination has not been worked out so far.
Some lectures presented at the G.A.
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