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On 18 March 2015, at a ceremony at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, the L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO presented the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award to five outstanding women scientists. Moroccan physicist Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli – who contributed to the simulation and construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter in the ATLAS detector – is...
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The First Winter School of High Energy Physics in Palestine (WISHEPP) will be held from November 13th to November 17th, 2016 in the Physics department, New Campus, An-Najah National University, Nablus (Palestine). This school is the initiative of two young Palestinian researchers that obtained their doctorate degree in High Energy Physics (Soleil, LAL et CERN)...
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An article published on November 11, 2018 in the newspaper Le Temps speaks about the new initiative of Robert Klapisch, the president of our foundation. Robert Klapisch, a former research director at CERN, wants to demonstrate the viability of superconductivity as a means of energy transport. He plans to build an 18-kilometer test bed in...
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Robert Klapisch passed away on 21 March 2020, to the immense sadness of those who knew and loved him. Our thoughts are with his family, particularly his three children, Coline, Cédric and Marianne. Robert was a tireless worker, not only passionate about the field of fundamental physics, covering both nuclear and particle physics, but also...
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Enrica Porcari (Information Technology Department Head), John Ellis (Sharing Knowledge Foundation), Rayan Saiid (Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Lebanon to international organisations in Geneva), Joachim Mnich (Director for Research and Computing) and Martin Gastal (advisor for relations with Lebanon) stand among the servers. (Image: CERN) Since 2012, CERN has regularly donated computing equipment that no...
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Two years ago, on March 21, 2020, our dear friend and Founder Robert Klapisch, left us. The members of the Council and the Scientific Committee are immensely grateful to him for the values he has conveyed, for his vision and for his sharing of knowledge. The Foundation, imbued with the magnificent heritage left by Robert,...
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Jean-Patrick Connerade, member of our Scientific Committee and President of The European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters, received the World Prize of Humanism 2018 by the Ohrid Academy of Humanism,  city of UNESCO, Macedonia. To learn more about it, read the award letter : Ohrid Academy of Humanism Jean Patrick Connerade and the answer by the awardee: Dear...
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Recent Foundation’s support for collaboration actions between CERN and Palestine by Patrick Fassnacht, member of our Foundation’s Council. The Sharing Knowledge Foundation supported 3 actions in 2017 that allowed to strenghten the scientific relationships between students and researchers from Palestine and the CERN laboratory based in Geneva. The Foundation assisted Mr M. Alstaty, student of the University of Jenin...
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On the 16th of May, King Abdullah inaugurated the first major international research center of the Middle East. This launching coincided with our 11th conference in Dead Sea. Our group of participants had the privilege to visit the site a few days before the inauguration, on the 13th May. The participants were welcomed by Mohammed Yasser...
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