Academician Ali Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan hosted a seminar on the topic “Contribution of the latest Nobel discoveries and inventions to world science”.
The Executive Director of the Institute, Doctor of Chemistry Afsun Sujayev, who spoke about the program of the seminar with an introductory speech, said that training young scientists and specialists on these topics was a decisive factor in increasing their interest in science. In particular, he spoke about the Muslim Nobel laureates (Turkish chemist Aziz Sanjar, Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail and Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam) and shared with the participants of the event interesting facts he had read and heard about their life activities and scientific achievements.
Then the leading researcher of the laboratory “Polymer compounds of various functional purposes” of the institute, Assoc.Prof. Jeyhun Hamidova made a wide report on the topic. She gave full information about the establishment of the Nobel Prize, chemical scientists included in the list of Nobel Prize winners, and stressed that the Nobel Prize, considered one of the highest scientific awards in the world, was awarded annually in different categories. The speaker noted that although there were candidates for this award from our country, their scientific achievements were not awarded the Nobel Prize for objective or subjective reasons: “Only Bakhtiyar Syrajov was among those who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 along with all other employees, working for AEBA. So, in the same year, by decision of the Norwegian Peace Committee, the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The award was shared equally between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohammed ElBaradei for their efforts to prevent the use of nuclear energy for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy was used as safely as possible for peaceful purposes.”
J.Hamidova said that Lev Landau, a Baku-based scientist of Jewish origin, also won the Nobel Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: “However, one of the most worthy representatives of Azerbaijani ophthalmology, Honored Scientist, Professor Sona Valikhan also had scientific achievement worthy of the Nobel Prize. She was the first Azerbaijani woman to receive the degree of doctor of medical sciences. Confirmation of the depth and value of her scientific work was the fact that she attracted the attention of the Nobel Committee in 1931 with her article “On the pathological anatomy of endophthalmitis.” But, unfortunately, due to the outbreak of the Second World War, her scientific activity was not crowned with success.”
J.Hamidova answered questions from employees on the topic.