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Iran grants scientific award to 2 US-based physicists
2021-10-23
[IsraelTimes] Mustafa Prize winner Cumrun Vafa of Harvard says ’there is no border for science and technology and they belong to all human beings’

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Thursday awarded a prestigious prize in the study of science and technology to two physicists based in the United States.

Harvard University physics professor Cumrun Vafa received The Mustafa Prize in the field of "All Areas of Science and Technology." Vafa is an Iranian-American.

The award, he said, reminds him "that there is no border for science and technology and they belong to all human beings."

He donated his award to an Iranian science foundation.

A quantum professor at Princeton University, Bangladesh-born M. Zahid Hasan, received the prize, too.

Three other scientists, Leb
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’s Mohammed H. Sayegh, Pakistain’s Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary and Morocco’s Yahya Tayalati also won awards.

Each of the five won $500,000. They were selected from more than 500 entrants.

It was the fourth award ceremony for the biennial prize since 2015. Iran launched the prize as part of its goal to become a regional scientific powerhouse.

The award comes against the backdrop of US sanctions on Tehran and Iran’s unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Medici Fauci and Fab-Star Admiral Levine.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-10-23 13:04  

#2  What was the award for? Was it like Obama's peace prize for existing?
Posted by: james   2021-10-23 10:40  

#1  No big deal. Next year, the Nobel Prize for Physics will go to a Paleswinian 12-year old girl who can turn lead to gold with snail snot.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-10-23 06:43  

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