Unesco prizes to researchers

Press, 6 December 1985, Page 30

Unesco prizes to researchers

NZPA-AFP Paris Australian, British, and Brazilian researchers have been awarded three Unesco science prizes worth more than SUS2O,OOO ($34,800), the organisation’s head office has announced. The SUSIS,OOO ($26,100) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) prize, awarded every two years, went to six Australian researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (C.5.1.R.0.) in Brisbane. The team won the prize for work on biological control of the underwater plant Salvinia molesta, in the River Sepik basin in Papua New Guinea.

A British professor, Sir

Peter Medawar, was awarded the SUSISOO ($2610) Kalinga Prize, given by the Kalinga Foundation in India, for his contribution to science.

Professor Medawar, professor of zoology at London and Birmingham Universities is also Director of the British National Institute for Medical Research. In 1960 he won the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology. Two Brazilian professors, Viktor and Ruth Nussenzweig of the University of Sao Paulo, won the SUSSOOO ($8700) Carlos Juan Finlay Prize, given by the Cuban Government, for their development of a vaccine against malaria. All the prizes will be presented by Unesco’s direc-tor-general, Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, on December 9.