CAIRO: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has awarded an Egyptian scientist the Merit Award, given annually to employees in the agency who have demonstrated a high level of quality performance and contributed to the achievements that help to “achieve the objectives of the Agency's progress in the service of member States.” The award is quite prestigious and according to the IAEA's website is a mark of a person's overall achievements within the international agency. The department of the Egyptian National Research Center was informed that Adly Nur al-Din, an assistant professor at the Department of Diseases and Plant Protection Division of the Agricultural Center won the award and is currently on a scientific mission for the agency in Austria. “The award recognized the efforts of the Egyptian scientist in training a large number of trainees with member states of the IAEA and supervision on the number of Masters and PhDs,” the IAEA said in a statement reported by Egyptian local newspapers. He was also given the award in recognition of his success with the research team “to overcome the problem of viral infection, which is sweeping the soil via insecticides in the stages of production and quantitative insect agency laboratories and laboratories of member states, and the use of methods to fight the virus not previously used to combat viruses, insects on a large scale,” local papers continued. BM
