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About the Global Energy International Prize The Prize is awarded for outstanding scientific and engineering research achievement in the field of energy that helps justify innovative methods of efficient energy generation, create new and efficient sources of energy, or materially improve the performance of known energy sources. A group of Russian scientists led by a Nobelist Dr. Zhores Alferov put forward the idea of an international energy prize. The Russian president Vladimir Putin expressed the foundation of the Global Energy International Prize at Russia-EU Summit in 2002. Regarding this expression, the Prize has been awarded annually to two or three persons since 2003. (See below). 2003 Mesyats Gennady Andreevich(Russia) Ian Douglas Smith (USA) Field of award : high-capacity impulse energy Nick Holonyak (USA) Field of award : silicon electronic circuits and semi-conducting devices 2004 Mitenkov Fyodor Mikhailovich (Russia) Leonard J. Koch (USA) Field of award : developing fast reactors Sheindlin Alexander Efimovich (Russia) Field of award : high-temperature substance-property research 2005 Zhores Alferov (Russia) Klaus Riedle (Germany) Field of award : advanced gas turbines For more details about this Prize, please visit following website : http://www.ge-prize.ru/en/ |
