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Great Prophet World Prize will be Iran's answer to Nobel Prize
Saturday October 13, 2012 10:36:27 PM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: Iran, which only has one Nobel Prize laureate, announced the
inception of a rival award intended solely for outstanding
scientists of the Islamic world, the country's news agency Fars
said Saturday.
The Great Prophet World Prize will be bestowed biennially on "the
Muslim world scientists in three technological fields in which
Iran has also make outstanding progress," said Iranian Vice
President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah.
She did not identify the fields covered by the Great Prophet World
Prize, but said it would help prepare Muslim scientists for
tighter competition over global awards such as the Nobel Prize,
identified in the report as "the Noble prize."
The Nobel Prize, established in 1901, currently has six
categories. The only Iranian to win it so far has been human
rights activist Shirin Ebadi, now living in London, who received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
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