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Riyadh: Scholars from Russia, Canada, the United States of America, Britain, Egypt and Morocco won the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for the year 2007.
The names of the winners were announced by Prince Khalid Al Faisal, chairman of the Prize Commission during a press conference in Riyadh on Tuesday evening.
The prize for Medicine has been awarded jointly to Canadian Professor Fernand Labrie, Head of the Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Central Hospital of Laval University at Quebec and Professor Patrick Craig Walsh, an American, in recognition of their respective contributions to therapeutic and surgical management of prostate cancer.
The prize for Science (Chemistry) was won by Professor James Fraser Stoddart, a British national.
The Prize for Arabic Language and Literature (Ancient Arabic Rhetoric) has been awarded jointly to Professor Mohammad A. Al Omari from Morocco and Professor Mustafa A. Nasif from Egypt.
Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz had chaired on Saturday a meeting for Islamic service selection committee. The committee decided to award the Service of Islam Prize to President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimev.
The prize panel announced that next year's categories for the prize for Islamic studies will be on the topic, 'Rules Governing International Relations During Peace and War in Islam'; on "Terminology Issues Of the Arabic Language' in Arabic Language and Literature; in the field of Biology (Science) and in Emergency Medicine (Medicine).
King Faisal International prize was established in 1977. Each of the five prize categories consists of a certificate, a 24-carat, 200-gramme gold medal and a cash award of 750,000 Saudi riyals (Dh734,000).
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