L’Oreal Honors Five Women Scientists

For their pioneering work in science, the L’Oreal-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science honored five distinguished women researchers whose work touches everything from the Milky Way to flat screen televisions. Diverse in origin, determined in nature and extraordinary in intellect, the 2009 Laureates were recognized at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France for their remarkable contributions to science.

Founded in 1998, the L’Oreal-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science were designed to recognize and advance women’s role in the field of science. Since the inception of the program, 57 Award Laureates have been honored. Each year, five distinguished women researchers from five continents are chosen by an eminent Jury comprised of members of the international scientific community and awarded $100,000 each.

The 2009 L’Oreal-UNESCO Award Laureates are: Professor Tebello Nyokong, Laureate for Africa & the Arab States in the Physical Sciences Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Rhodes University, South Africa; Professor Akiko Kobayashi, Laureate for Asia & the Pacific in the Physical Sciences Chemistry, Nihon University, Japan; Professor Eugenia Kumacheva, Laureate for North America in the Physical Sciences Chemistry, The University of Toronto, Canada; Professor Athene M. Donald, Laureate for Europe in the Physical Sciences Physics, Cambridge University, United Kingdom; and Professor Beatriz Barbuy, Laureate for Latin America in the Physical Sciences Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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