Abdus Salam Medal

The Abdus Salam Medal (Official: Abdus Salam Medal for Science and Technology), is an award presented by The World Academy of Sciences in Trieste. The Abdus Salam Medal was instituted in 1995 to honour the Academy's founder and first president, Nobel Laureate Professor Abdus Salam and is awarded to highly distinguished personalities who have served the cause of science in the Developing World.^[1][2]

Abdus Salam Medal
Location	Trieste
Country	Italy
Presented by	Third World Academy of Sciences
First award	1995
Final award	2015
Currently held by	Jacob Palis

Recipients

Year	Name	Country
1995	Federico Mayor Zaragoza	Spain
1996	M. G. K. Menon	India
1998	Thomas R. Odhiambo	Kenya
2000	José I. Vargas [Wikidata]	Brazil
2002	Paolo Budinich	Italy
2005	Lu Yongxiang	People's Republic of China
2008	C. N. R. Rao	India
2012	Mohamed H.A. Hassan	Sudan
2015	Jacob Palis	Brazil
2018	Fernando Quevedo	Guatemala Spain
2022	Chunli Bai	People's Republic of China