2013 ICTP Prize awarded to Dr. Yasaman and Dr. Thamyongkit

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*/We are pleased to announce that the/*

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*2013 ICTP Prize*

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is awarded to

*Dr. Farzan Yasaman*

*Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences*

*Tehran, Iran*

*Dr. Patchanita Thamyongkit*

*Department of Chemistry*

*Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok*

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in honour of

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*Marie Curie*

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"The prize recognises Professor Yasaman Farzan (Iran) for her 
theoretical contributions to the physics of neutrinos, including 
development of the unitarity triangle method to determine the 
CP-violating phase, identification of symmetries leading to particular 
values of the phase and the proposal to use polarisation measurements to 
obtain information about CP violation. She has explored general 
conditions under which neutrino masses and properties of dark matter are 
related, elaborating possibilities of its composition including MeV mass 
scale scalar and fermion particles as well as electroweak mass scale 
vector bosons. This has important consequences for astrophysical 
observations and experiments at LHC.

The prize recognises Professor Patchanita Thamyongkit (Thailand) for her 
experimental chemistry contributions to organic, conjugated, and 
semiconducting materials of great relevance for photovoltaic research. 
In particular her work on the chemical synthesis of porphyrin-based 
light harvesting systems paves the way for promising applications in 
bulk heterojunction solar cells. Using advanced spectroscopic 
techniques, she obtained important insights into structure and charge 
carrier mobilities in conjugated molecules which are fundamental as well 
as instrumental for new kinds of optoelectronic devices".

*_Marie Curie_*

Born Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland, Marie 
Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to 
win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry). Curie's 
efforts, together with her husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of 
polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the development of 
X-rays. She died on July 4, 1934.

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