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UNESCO honors Chinese scientist with Avicenna Prize
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) -- UNESCO Deputy Director-General Marcio Barbosa awarded the 2009 Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science to the Chinese Professor Qiu Renzong.
The award ceremony was held on December 18 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Established by the Executive Board of UNESCO on the initiative from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science, awarded every two years, is intended to reward the activities of individuals and groups in the field of ethics in science.
The UNESCO website called Renzong “a pioneer in the field of bioethics whose research in the ethics of science and steadfast public advocacy of ethical issues related to science have established him as a major figure both in the Chinese academic community and across the world”.
The prize was named after Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, known as Abu Ali Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna was born in c. 980 near Bukhara, contemporary Uzbekistan, and died 1037 in Hamedan, Iran.
He was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, soldier, statesman, and teacher.
The Prize consists of a gold medal of Avicenna along with a certificate, the sum of $10,000, and a one-week academic visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, which includes giving lectures in relevant academic gatherings organized for this purpose by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The award ceremony was held on December 18 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Established by the Executive Board of UNESCO on the initiative from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science, awarded every two years, is intended to reward the activities of individuals and groups in the field of ethics in science.
The UNESCO website called Renzong “a pioneer in the field of bioethics whose research in the ethics of science and steadfast public advocacy of ethical issues related to science have established him as a major figure both in the Chinese academic community and across the world”.
The prize was named after Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina, known as Abu Ali Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna was born in c. 980 near Bukhara, contemporary Uzbekistan, and died 1037 in Hamedan, Iran.
He was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, soldier, statesman, and teacher.
The Prize consists of a gold medal of Avicenna along with a certificate, the sum of $10,000, and a one-week academic visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, which includes giving lectures in relevant academic gatherings organized for this purpose by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
