We are pleased to announce that the

2013 ICTP Prize

is awarded to

Dr. Farzan Yasaman

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Patchanita Thamyongkit

Department of Chemistry

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

in honour of

Marie Curie

"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.