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Riyadh:
Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and
Minister of Defense, presented the King Faisal International Prize
for the year 2013 to the winners here Saturday night.
The Prize for Service to Islam was
presented to Sheikh Rai’d Salah Mahagna for his leadership and
humanitarian work in the occupied Palestinian territories as
chairman of the Islamic Movement in Palestine between 1996 and
2001.
The Prize for Arabic Language and
Literature, which focused this year on individual and
institutional efforts in creating Arabic dictionaries, was awarded
to the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo for its
contributions over the past 80 years.
Jeffrey Michael Friedman of
Rockefeller University in New York and Douglas Leonard Coleman of
the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, received the Prize in
Medicine for their research into the genetics of obesity,
specifically the identification and characterization of the leptin
pathway.
The Prize for Science was given to Paul B. Corkum of the
University of Ottawa and Ferenc Krausz of Ludwig Maximilian
University in Munich for their pioneering work on the motion of
electrons.
Each of the five Prize categories
consists of a certificate handwritten in Diwani calligraphy
summarizing the laureate’s work, a commemorative 24 carat, 200
gram gold medal uniquely cast for each Prize, and a cash endowment
of SR750,000 ($200,000).
Co-winners in any category share the
monetary grant.
Up to now, 229 distinguished
individuals and organizations from 40 different countries in Asia,
Africa, Europe and North America have received the Prize in
various categories.
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