Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics and Computer Science
| Edmund Hlawka, Austria |
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laise Pascal Medal in Earth Sciences| Khalid Aziz, USA |
![]() Prof. Aziz made seminal contributions to multiphase and single phase flow of oil, gas and their mixtures in pipes for the design of innovative oil and gas transportation and production systems, development and use of computer reservoir simulators for predicting performance of petroleum reservoirs, techniques for predicting productivity and injectivity of horizontal and other non-conventional wells, natural gas engineering and hydrocarbon fluid phase behaviour, etc. Currently, he is Otto N. Miller Professor of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, USA. He is a Member of EAS. |
Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics and Chemistry
| Isaak M. Khalatnikov, Russia |
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Blaise Pascal Medal in Biomedical Sciences
| Anthony S. Fauci, USA |
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Blaise Pascal Medal in Engineering
| Marie-Paule Pileni, France |
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Blaise Pascal Medal in Natural Sciences
| Peter W H Holland, UK |
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Peter Holland is the Linacre Professor of Zoology, Associate Head of Oxford’s Department of Zoology, a Fellow of Merton College, and Head of theDevelopment Research Group. He took up this post in October 2002, following eight years as Professor of Zoology in the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at the University of Reading. Previously, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow, the Browne Research Fellow and a Demonstrator in Zoology at Oxford. His research interests include evolutionary developmental biology, genome evolution, homeobox genes, and molecular phylogeny. Peter Holland was awarded the first Genetics Society Medal in 2004, the De Snoo van 't Hoogerhuys Medal in 1999 and the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London in 1996. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2003. He is a Governor of the Marine Biological Association, member of the NHGRI Working Group on Comparative Genomics, member of the scientific advisory panel for the Kristineberg Marine Research Station, specialist advisor on homeobox genes for the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee, and member of the editorial board for seven journals (Proc. Roy. Soc. B; Evol. & Devel.; Mol. Devel. Evol.; BioEssays; BMC Evol. Biol.; Faculty of 1000; Devel. Genes & Evol.). He is a Member of EAS. |
Edmund
Hlawka is a leading number
theorist whose work has had a
lasting influence on modern
number theory and other branches
of mathematics. He has
contributed to diophantine
approximation, the geometry of
numbers, uniform distributions,
analytic number theory, discrete
geometry, convexity, numerical
integration, inequalities,
differential equations and gas
dynamics. Of particular
importance are his results in
the geometry of numbers
(especially the Minkowski-Hlawka
theorem) and uniform
distribution. He is a
Member of EAS.
The
investigations carried out by I.M. Khalatnikov in the field of cosmology
and relativistic astrophysics are particularly noteworthy. The work on
many years on the problem of singularity in the general relativity
theory has brought about the discovery of a new type of oscillatory
behaviour of relativistic cosmological models in the vicinity of the
time singularity. This type of singularity has proved to be of a most
general character and has promonted construction of the general
cosmological solution of the Einstein equations with the time
singularity. These results have been confirmed by the works of S. Hawkin
and R. Penrose. This series of works also involves development of
original qualitative methods of investigating the evolution of the
Universe with dissipative processed taken into account and also the
exact solution of the problem of stochastic properties of the evolution
of homogeneous models of the Universe (chaos in cosmology). Dr.
Khalatnikov is Director of the the Landau Institute for Theoretical
Physics. He is a Member of EAS.
Dr.
Fauci has made seminal
contributions to the
understanding of how the AIDS
virus destroys the body's
defenses leading to its
susceptibility to deadly
infections. He also has
delineated the mechanisms of
induction of HIV expression by
endogenous cytokines.
Furthermore, he has been
instrumental in developing
strategies for the therapy and
immune reconstitution of
patients with this serious
disease, as well as for a
vaccine to prevent HIV
infection. Dr. Fauci is a
member of the National Academy
of Sciences and is Director of
the National Institute for
Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
He serves on the editorial
boards of many scientific
journals; as an editor of
Harrison's Principles of
Internal Medicine; and as
author, coauthor, or editor of
more than 1,000 scientific
publications, including several
textbooks. He is a Member of EAS
Dr.
Pileni is Professor of the University of P&M Curie, Paris, France. She
made numerous fundamental contributions to nanotechnologies. Her
group pioneered in the fabrication of nanocrystals in colloidal
solutions that may have many fundamental industrial applications.
She is a Member of EAS.