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Tuesday 12 Jan 2016 - 13:40 Makkah mean time-2-4-1437
Riyadh, (IINA) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) honored Abdul Jabbar Al-Hamoud, a champion at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF-2015) global competition, by naming a newly discovered exoplanet ‘Hamoud’ after him, Arab News reported.
The Intel ISEF program is the world’s largest international pre-university science competition. More than 1,700 students are shortlisted from about 70 countries to participate in showcasing their independent research and compete for more than $5 million in prizes.
Saudi Ministry of Education tweeted that the student “received a unique honor” when NASA decided to name the newly discovered planet as Hamoud to “acknowledge his rare success in scientific research by winning first place in the global Intel ISEF program on the new scientific revolution in the field of bio-botany”.
The 17-year-old won the rare accolade for the best scientific research in the world presented at the Intel ISEF 2015 in Pittsburgh. Al-Hamoud is the first Saudi student to achieve this position in the global competition.
Al-Hamoud was also given a special award that qualifies him to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden.
Al-Hamoud did an experiment using the TRV virus in genetic engineering, and his project was applied to 450 typical plants and more than 50 tomato plants.
Millions of students worldwide compete each year in local and school-sponsored science fairs, and the winners of these events go on to participate in SSP-affiliated regional-level fairs from where the best among them win the chance to attend Intel ISEF.
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