Italy launches Prof Atta-ur-Rahman award for chemistry

ISLAMABAD: Italy has announced the World Award for Chemistry attributed to Prof Atta-ur-Rahman.

The World Academy of Sciences in Italy has established an annual award in the name of Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman for scientists under 40 years of age from developing countries. The award has been named the Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry and will continue to be awarded annually to the best scientist in developing countries.

So far, the award has been given to twelve brilliant scientists from Bangladesh, Cameroon, Egypt, Nepal, Sri Lanka and its worth is $5,000. It is currently considered the world’s most prestigious award in chemistry for outstanding scientists.

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman said in a special interview that Italy’s World Award is a great honor for him and Pakistan and the award has been established by PWAS.

In recognition of his services to the development of science and technology, Malaysia’s largest University of Technology (UIT) established an institute named Atta-ur-Rahman Institute of Natural Product Discovery in 2013. He is the first Muslim scientist to be included in the famous “Wall of Scientists” of the world. No other Pakistani has been inducted into the Wall of Scientists before. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, one of Switzerland’s top universities in the world, has announced the inclusion of Prof. Dr. Attaur Rahman of the International Center for Chemistry and Biological Sciences in the famous “Wall of Scientists”.