Professor Dr. Ayse Erzan, Istanbul, Turkey, Associate Editor of The European Physical Journal B, has been awarded the UNESCO - L'Oréal Award for distinguished women scientists who contributed to decisive advances in the study of material sciences.
Selected by an international jury, presided by Professor Pierre Gilles de Gennes (1991 Nobel Prize in Physics) five laureates were chosen as the leading candidates for each continent: Africa (Pr. Karimat El-Sayed), Asia-Pacific (Pr. Fang-Hua Li), Europe (Pr. Ayse Erzan), Latin America (Pr. Mariana Weissmann), and North America (Dr. Johanna M.H. Levelt Sengers). Each 2003 award is worth US $ 100,000. The ceremony took place in Paris on February 27, 2003. The awards were presented by UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura and by Lindsay Owen-Jones, L'Oréal.
Dr. Ayse Erzan has been honoured for her substantial contributions to the science of open, non-equilibrium, pattern forming, fractal systems and their universal features. Her results are particularly important and have been applied to solve interdisciplinary questions. As a scientific achievement of high impact Dr. Erzan has obtained valuable insight in glass formation by long polymeric chains and its percolation structure. Most recently she has contributed to mathematical models of genetic evolution.
Cordial congratulations to our editorial colleague on behalf of The European Physical Journal!
Siegfried Grossmann, Denis Jérome, Antonio Paoletti, Petra Rudolf
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, . UNESCO - L'Oréal Award for Professor A. Erzan, Associate Editor. Eur. Phys. J. B 32, 273 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2003-00116-5
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