Briton, Russians win international global energy award

MOSCOW. April 15. KAZINFORM. One British and two Russian scientists have won the 2009 International Global Energy Award, the committee chairman, Valentin Smirnov, announced on Wednesday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
None
None
The awards ceremony will take place in June during the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. The prize of 30 million rubles (almost $900,000) will be split among the winners. At the press conference in Moscow, Smirnov announced that the winner of the first award was Brian Spalding, a former professor of heat transfer at Imperial College London and founder of a company specializing in computational fluid dynamics. The second award was given to two renowned Russian scientists, Alexei Kontorovich and Nikolai Laverov, for "fundamental research and wide exploitation of prospecting techniques, investigation and development of oil, gas and uranium fields and the scientific basis for the discovery of raw energy materials in large areas," Smirnov said; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.
Currently reading