Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that Professor/Dr. Gerhard Boerner, Professor Peter H. Raven, and Professor Roger-Maurice Bonnet won the CAS Award for International Cooperation in Science and Technology for 2009 at CAS’ annual conference held January 25-27, Beijing.

Established in 2007, the CAS Award for International Cooperation in Science and Technology is to honor those eminent international experts with outstanding contributions to China's global cooperation in science and technology. It is aimed to encourage more efforts in this respect that will lead to the enhancement of CAS innovation capacity and the improvement of its research performance, education and training, management and reputations among the international community.

Professor/Dr. Gerhard Boerner, a senior scientist of Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics and a professor of Munich University, is a world leading expert on high energy astrophysics and cosmology. He has published several dozens of high impact research papers and a book named “The Early Universe” which is one of the classical textbooks.

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Professor Peter H. Raven, a leading botanist and advocate of conservation and biodiversity with a notably international outlook, is president of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He is member of the National Academy of Sciences (1977), and of the academies of sciences in over 20 countries, including CAS. Dr. Raven made outstanding contributions to the plant evolution and plant systematics research. He proposed the concept of co-evolution; initiated the studies on the effects of the Plate Tectonics upon biogeography and plant evolution, and much more.

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Professor Roger-Maurice Bonnet. The early scientific work of Professor Bonnet was focused on solar physics. As early as in 1963, he launched the first French space astronomy experiment on board the Véronique rocket from Hammaguir in the Sahara. Professor Bonnet is the author of more than 150 articles and scientific publications, and the recipient of many awards and honors granted by a number of agencies, such as the Silver Medal given by the French Space Agency, the Emil Award by the International Academy of Astronautics, and the COSPAR Space Science Award.

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