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cine in Vienna. He is the recipient of the
2009 International Science and Technology
Cooperation Award of the People’s
Republic of China, of the Order of the
Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star of Japan
(2009), and of the Commanders’ Cross
of the Order of Merit of the Republic of
Poland (2007). He was named a Chevalier
de la Legion d’Honneur in 2006 and
received the Commander’s Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of
Germany in 2006. Dr. Winnacker, who is
the author of several books and textbooks,
among them ‘From Genes to
Clones,’ studied chemistry at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
where he obtained his Ph.D. in
1968, and completed postdoctorates at
the University of California in Berkeley
and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm
from 1968 to 1972.
ZAKRI Abdul Hamid is Science Adviser
to the Government of Malaysia, advising
the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on
issues related to science, technology,
and innovation. He holds the Tuanku
Chancellor Chair at Universiti Sains Malaysia.
He was the former Director of the
Institute of Advanced Studies, United
Nations University, and Co-Chair of the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He
is a member of the Arab Fund Fellowship
Program, Senior Advisory Group on
Technical Assistance and Cooperation of
the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), and the Executive Board of International
Council for Science (ICSU). He
served as the Secretary-General of the
Society for the Advancement of Breeding
Researches in Asia and Oceania (SA-
BRAO) from 1981-1989 and was Deputy
Vice Chancellor at Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia from 1992-2000. He was the
Founding President of the Genetics Society
of Malaysia. His professional interests
include biodiplomacy, education for
sustainable development, and biotechnology
and biodiversity policies for developing
countries. Recipient of a Fulbright-Hays
Fellowship (1981) and a
Gold Medal Award from the Rotary Research
Foundation (1999), he is a Fellow
of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, the
Academy of Sciences of the Developing
World (TWAS), the World Academy of Art
and Science, and the Islamic World
Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he received
the Langkawi Award, a national
laureate for outstanding contribution in
the field of environment in Malaysia.
Three species known to science are
named after him: a beetle (Paleosepharia
zakrii); a cicada (Pomponia zakrii), and a
pitcher plant (Nepenthes zakriana).
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