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L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards honour five women researchers in mathematics, astrophysics, chemistry and informatics
11/02/2021
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On the International Day for Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on 11 February, UNESCO and the L Oréal Foundation honoured five women researchers in the fields of astrophysics, mathematics, chemistry and informatics as part of the 23rd International Prize for Women in Science.
On this occasion, UNESCO published a global study on gender equality in scientific research. Entitled To be smart, the digital revolution will need to be inclusive, it shows that although the number of women in scientific research has risen to one in three, women remain a minority in mathematics, computer science, engineering and artificial intelligence. Every year, women write as many scientific articles as men, but their chances of appearing in prestigious journals are lower. While women represent 33% of researchers, on a
L Oréal s Women in Science Laureates Revealed February 16, 2021 Contact Author Hannah Fink
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Shafi Goldwasser–computer science, laureate for North America.
Catherine Ngila–chemistry, laureate for Africa and the Arab States.
Françoise Combes–astrophysics, laureate for Europe.
Kyoko Nozaki-chemistry, laureate for Asia and the Pacific.
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Laureate for Africa and the Arab States: Catherine Ngila–chemistry
Ngila was awarded for introducing and developing nanotechnology based analytical methods for the monitoring of water pollutants and applying them in countries heavily impacted by pollution.
Her work is of vital importance for the development of sustainable water resource management, respecting the environment.
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Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, a co-leader of the cryptography and information security group, and a member of the complexity theory group within the Theory of Computation Group and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has been named the laureate for North America in this year’s 2021 L Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.
The award celebrates Goldwasser’s groundbreaking work in cryptography, which has enabled secure communication and verification over the internet and collaborative computation on private data. Goldwasser is also known of her pioneering work on interactive and probabilistic proof verification. In announcing the award, the organizers said that Goldwasser s research has a significant impact on our understanding of large classes of problems for which computers can