Mahmoud Fahmy Hegazi 2019

Professor Mahmoud Fahmy Hegazi

by Arabic Language and Literature

 

Fahmy Hegazi completed his bachelor’s degree at Cairo University in the Arabic Language Department in 1958, and his master’s degree in 1959. At the same time, he pursued all the courses of the German Language Department at the Al-Alsun School in the Ministry of Higher Education, where he mastered Dutch. He was the first Egyptian to teach Dutch in the general education schools in Egypt. He was then appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature. Afterwards, he was sent to Germany to complete his doctoral studies in linguistics at the University of Munich.

He held several academic and administrative positions, including: President of the Egyptian University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Chairman of the National Library and Archives, Professor of Linguistics and Head of Arabic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Director of Arabic Language Center at Cairo University, University of Budapest (Hungary), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Lyon (France), and Visiting Professor of Postgraduate Studies at several Arab universities. Professor Hejazi was a Language Sciences instructor at the College of Arts, Cairo University, a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language Sciences in Cairo, and the Editor-in-Chief of the ZAL Journal in Erlangen, Germany. Professor Hegazi is the author of many books and research in Arabic Linguistic and Literature.

In recognition of his scientific efforts, he was awarded a number of decorations and awards, including the Federal Order of Merit of the First Class of Germany in 1997, the 1998 Cairo University Prize in Humanities, the State Prize for Literature in Egypt in 2000, and the 2013 Medal of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

جامعة افريقيا العالمية 2019

International University of Africa

by Service to Islam

The university began with the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Studies and gradually expanded until it reached twenty-two colleges, and three specialized centers.

The number of students now at the university has reached fifteen thousand and one hundred and ninety-one law students. The students’ body is 50 % Africans, 25% Asians and European, and 25% Sudanese.

The University is considered as the largest Sunni religious institution in sub-Saharan Africa. The university has fifteen colleges outside Sudan in Africa, China, and Turkey. In order to expand the scope of knowledge, culture, and advocacy, the University has established the Radio Africa station and the Al-Alamiya satellite channel.

The International African University has become a prominent foundation for Islamic sciences in the African continent. It has brought together most Muslim scholars in seminars and conferences and has become a role model for Islamic colleges and universities in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.

The University got a medal of achievement from the Republic of Sudan and the award for the scientific miracles in the Qur’an and the Sunnah in the science fields from Al-Azhar and several other awards.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

جون بول 2018

Professor Sir John M. Ball

by Science

 

John Macleod Ball obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1969 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Sussex. He completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at Heriot Watt university in Scotland and at Brown university in the U.S.A. Between 1974-1996, he was at Heriot Watt university, where he took on various appointments, including a Professorship of Applied Analysis. Since 1996, he has been a Sedleian professor of natural philosophy at Oxford. He is the director of Oxford Center for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and a fellow of the queen’s college at the same university.

Professor Sir John Ball has made fundamental mathematical contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations, the calculus of variations and their applications to materials science and liquid crystals. He has pioneering work giving the first global existence theorems for energy minimizing configurations in nonlinear elasticity under realistic hypotheses on the material response and the first rigorous treatment of non-interpenetration of matter and cavitation in solids. He worked with Richard James to develop the widely used mathematical theory of martensitic phase transformations and their microstructure as well as a theory of metastability based on geometric incompatibility of parent and product phases. He is well known for his groundbreaking work on infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, in which his method is widely used for proving the existence of global attractors for nonlinear wave equations and other systems. His work on the Landau-de Gennes theory has greatly stimulated the worldwide study of mathematics of liquid crystals. In particular, his fundamental contributions with zarnescu towards orientability of director configurations, and the satisfaction of eigenvalue constraints on the de Gennes Q-tensor with Majumdar.

He published over 70 articles, and 7 books, and he is a member of the editorial board of many reputable scientific journals. He is also a member of several scientific societies and former president of the International Mathematical Union.

Professor Sir John Ball received many distinguished awards and honors including Keith Prize, Sylvester Medal and John von Neumann Prize. He was knighted in 2006 for his services to science.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

جيمس أليسون 2018

Professor James P. Allison

by Medicine

 

James Allison obtained his B.S. in Microbiology in 1969, followed by a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Texas (UT), Austin, TX, USA in 1973. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Immunology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. Afterwards, he served in several reputable universities and Hospitals all over the US as a professor, a director, a chair, and a head of Molecular, Immunology, and Cancer Departments. Since 2012, he has been a Professor at the Department of Immunology at MD Anderson, the Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair in Immunology, the Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the Chair of the Department of Immunology, an Executive Director of the Immunotherapy Platform, and a Deputy Director of the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers at MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston.

He published over 250 highly cited articles, with over 40,796, and an H-index of 102. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and has participated in various conferences and exhibitions in his field.

Professor Allison received over 60 awards and honors including the Dana Foundation Award in Human Immunology Research, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and Canada Gairdner International Award.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

 

2018 -شكري المبخوت-

Professor Chokri Mabkhout

by Arabic Language and Literature

 

Chokri Mabkhout earned the Certificate for the Completion of Studies from the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Teachers’ Institute in Soussa in 1986. A year later, he obtained the Certificate of Research Aptitude from the Arts College in Manouba. He earned the Certificate of Aggregation in Arabic Language and Literature from the same college in 1988. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature from the College of Arts, Manouba University.

Professor Mabkhout has been teaching language, literature, linguistics, and discourse analysis, at Manouba University since 1988. He assumed the deanship of the Faculty of Arts, and Humanities at Manouba University, and then assumed the chancellorship of this university where he is currently a professor.

He founded, supervised, and edited the magazine Academia, which was published by Manouba University. He also edited and supervised the quarterly cultural magazine The New Thought (Al-Fikr Al-Jadid). He is the Director of the refereed Jjournal Annals of the Tunisian University that is issued by Manouba University. Besides, he is a member of a number of scholarly committees and rights organizations.

Professor Mabkhout has published a number of scholarly works, including Sirat Al-Ghaeb, Sirat Al-A’ati: Al-Sirah Al-Thatiyah Fi Kitab Al-Ayyam of Tâhâ Hussayn, Aesthetics: The Text and its Readers in Classical Arabic Poetics, The construction of Negation, Rhetorical Induction, The Circle of Linguistic Works, The Progeny of the Thief of Fire: The Intellectual Biography, and The Leader and his Shadows: Biography in Tunisia. He then published a collection of stories, Madame President and a second novel titled Baganda.

He received a number of awards, including the Tunisian Ministry of Culture’s award in 1994 for his book The Aesthetics of Intimacy, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation (Honorary Award) in 2012 for his book The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pragmatics, and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2015 for his novel Etalyenni (The Italian).

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

 

2018 -بشار عواد

Professor Bashar Awad

by Islamic Studies

Bashar Awad graduated from primary and secondary schools in 1960. He enrolled in the Department of History at the College of Arts at Baghdad University, from which he graduated in 1964. In that same year, he enrolled in the Master’s Program of History and Archeology at Baghdad University. Professor Marouf was appointed in 1967 as a teacher at the College of Shari’a Studies at Baghdad University. He later earned his Ph.D. from the College of Arts at the same university in 1976. His doctoral thesis was titled Ad-Dahabi’s Approach in ‘History of Islam’.

Professor Awad worked at Baghdad University and advanced through academic work, eventually earning professorship in 1981. He has been keenly interested in studying and minutely scrutinizing the Prophet’s Hadiths. He has been particularly devoted to studying biographies, narrators, and the ‘hidden defects’ of some Hadiths. He taught as a Professor of Hadith in several universities.

Many of Awad’s studies have been published in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Tunis, and London. Notable among his publications are The Impact of Hadith on the Emergence of Muslim History, Al-Mundhiri’s and His ‘Al-Takmila’, Baghdad’s Biographical Histories, Ad-Dahabi’s Approach in ‘History of Islam’, A Journey through Thought and Heritage, The History of Islam and the Concept of the Arab Leadership of the Islamic Ummah [community], Explanation of the Ruling on Chanting the Quran, A Selection of the Prophet’s Hadiths, The whole Musnad [collection of Hadith] (22 volumes), and Classified and Verified Musnad (41 volumes).

Among the many books Professor Marouf verified are Al-Wafayāt by Abu Masoud Al-Hajji, Ahlu Al-Mi’a and Upwards by Al-Hafiz Ad-Dahabi, Postscript to the History of Baghdad, City of Peace by Ibn Al-Dabaythi (5 volumes), The Grand Mosque by Imam Abu Issa Al-Tirmidhi in six volumes, Sunan Ibn Majah by Imam Muhammad ibn Yazid Al-Qazwini in six volumes, The History of the City of Peace by Hafiz Abu Bakr Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi in seventeen volumes, The History of Islam and the Deaths of Celebrities and the Famous by Al-Hafiz Shams Addeen Ad-Sahabi in seventeen volumes, and many other publications.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

2018 - إرواندي جاسوير- copy

Professor Irwandi Jaswir

by Service to Islam

 

Irwandi Jaswir majored in Food Technology and Human Nutrition at Bogor Agriculture University (IPB), Indonesia, and received his bachelor’s degree in 1993. He conferred a Master’s of Science in Food Science and Biotechnology in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Food Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2000 at Universiti Putra Malaysia. In the years 1998 to 1999, Universiti Putra Malaysia granted him the opportunity to participate in the Ph.D. exchange program at the Department of Food, Nutrition and Health of the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He continued his pursuit of knowledge at a Diploma in Islamic Revealed Knowledge at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2003. Then, he obtained a fellowship in Lipid Biochemistry at the National Food Research Institute in Tsukuba, Japan, 2006-2008.

With his present appointment as the Deputy Dean for Academic, Research, and Publication at INHART at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Professor Jaswir was appointed various administrative and academic positions, including, a Secretary of IIUM Council of Professors from 2014 to present, a Senior Professor of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry at IIUM from 2015 to present, and the Chairman of the Korean-INHART Halal Certification Authority in Korea from 2016 to present.

Professor Irwandi Jaswir’s contributions to the Islamic World has uniquely carved an edge in the development of scientific knowledge by establishing and developing a new discipline termed “Halal Science”. This cutting-edge research reveals a significant relationship between Halal and Haram in Islamic jurisprudences and science. Through this new discipline, he is in a position to incorporate Halal Science as a tool to complement the opinions held by Fiqh scholars.

Professor Jaswir dedication to scientific research is shown in the publication of over 120 articles in scientific journals, 30 Book Chapters, completed over 30 research projects, and presented more than 250 papers in International Conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of many reputable scientific journals. Professor Jaswir’s achievement and dedication in the scientific research of Halal Science culminated with receiving 60 international awards and honors.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

2017 - Professor Laurens Molenkamp-

Professor Laurens Molenkamp

by Science

Laurens Molenkamp studied Physical Chemistry in Groningen University (1974-1980) from which he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1985. Throughout the next 10 years, he became involved in industrial research at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 1994, he took up the post of Associate Professor at RWTH, Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, and in 1999, he became the Chair of Experimental Physics and Head of the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Unit at the Physics Institute in the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Professor Molenkamp’s research focuses on quantum transport in nanostructures, semiconductor spintronics and optical spectroscopy of semiconductors. He is famous for discovering the quantum spin Hall effect, which in turn opened up a whole new field of topological insulators. He has also developed novel methods for creating and manipulating spin-polarized charge carrier states in semiconductors, which have the potential to develop magnetic storage devices.

He has published around 375 papers in major international journals and has been a Thomson-Reuter Citation Laureate in 2014. He has delivered many invited lectures and several named colloquia. He served as an Editor-in-Chief of Semiconductor Science and Technology (2001-2011), Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters (001-2007), Editor of EPJ Applied Physics (2004-2015) and presently is Lead Editor of Physical Review B (2012).

Professor Molenkamp’s outstanding achievements have been recognized by several prizes and honors, including the Europhysics Prize (2010), American Physical Society Oliver E. Buckley Prize (2012), Frontier Physics Prize (2013), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation DFG (2014) and the Stern-Gerlach Medal (2017). He was an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physics Society and Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.

2017 - Professor Daniel Loss-

Professor Daniel Loss

by Science

Daniel Loss studied theoretical physics at the University of Zurich (1979-1983) from which he obtained a Ph.D. in Statistical Mechanics in 1985. His academic career spans around 35 years. He worked first as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Zurich (1985-1989) then moved to the USA as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (with Nobel Laureate Prof. A. J. Leggett) at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1989-1991) then as a Research Scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York (1991-1993). Thereafter, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor, then as an Associate Professor of Physics (1993-1995; 1995-1996, respectively) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. In 1996, he returned to Basel University as Professor (Ordinarius) of Theoretical Physics and chaired the Department of Physics three times between 1998 and 2010. He has also served as a Co-Director of the Swiss National Center of Competence and Research in Nanoscale Science and is currently a Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at Basel University, Director of the Basel

Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence and Co-Director of the Swiss Nanoscale Center at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute.

Professor Loss has made seminal contributions to the quantum theory of spin dynamics and spin coherence in semiconductors, particularly in quantum dots. Together with D.P. DiVincenzo proposed the concept of a spin quantum computer of exceptionally high speed and storage capacity, using electron spins trapped in quantum dots as qubits. This and many other ground-breaking predictions by Loss and his team have been confirmed experimentally by other groups around the world and have inspired much further research into the basic physics and practical applications of spin-related phenomena and, in particular, spin qubits in developing powerful quantum computers, and in structures such as semiconducting quantum dots, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and molecular magnets. Professor Loss has also made pioneering contributions to low-dimensional interacting systems (discovered new states of matter), to topological quantum memories and topological quantum computing based on Majorana fermions and parafermions.

Professor Loss has authored over 435 papers, with a total Web of Science (Google Scholar) citations of 24,830 (35,720) and an H-index of 73 (85). His accomplishments in the field of solid state quantum information processing have been recognized by more than 415 invited talks at international conferences, and by major awards and honors, namely the Humboldt Research Prize (2005), the Marcel Benoist Prize, the highest scientific honor in Switzerland (2010), Simon Distinguished Visiting Scholar KITP (2013) and the Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics from the European Academy of Sciences (2014). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000) and the Institute of Physics (UK, 2005) and an Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2013) and the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina (2014).

This biography was written in the year the prize was awarded.