1. 2018 King Faisal International Prize for Science and Medicine
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Sameen Ahmed Khan
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Multidisciplinary ,Gold medal ,Management - Abstract
The King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has awarded the 2018 King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for Medicine (topic: Immunotherapy for Cancer) to James Patrick Allison of USA, for his outstanding contribution to the development of the field of immunotherapy of cancer. The Science prize in the field of mathematics has been awarded to John Macleod Ball of the UK for his fundamental contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and their applications to materials science and liquid crystals. The Prize comprises a 24-carat gold medal weighing 200 g; and a cash award of 750 thousand Saudi Riyal (USD 200,000).
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- 2018
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