Three Cuban scientists, doctors in Physics, Chemistry and Health, Aurora Pérez Martínez, Aurora Pérez Álvarez Gramatges

Three Cuban scientists, doctors in Physics, Chemistry and Health, Aurora Pérez Martínez, Aurora Pérez Álvarez Gramatges Mailing and Vera respectively, have now been payable Kovalievskaia Sofia Prize, awarded by the Foundation that bears the name of the great Russian researcher.

The institution, whose headquarters is the University of Arizona, encourages participation of women in developing countries in research projects, which gives a cash fund.

Aurora Pérez Martínez, of the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics laureate for his work was a dynamic source of magnetic field and dense autogravitante Quarks Star magnetized.

For its part Aurora Perez Gramatges, the Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, won the Design and characterization of self-organizing systems micelares analytical interest.

Work Mailing Álvarez Vera Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri, entitled New evidence of the global development of dengue haemorrhagic fever during infection with dengue 3.

At the award ceremony attended by Neal and Ann Koblitz and Ismael Clark, president of the Kovalievskaia Foundation and the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, respectively.

In our country, the award is given each Kovalievskaia Sofia two years, and its winners are chosen from among those females who were recognized with the Award of the Academy of Sciences in Cuba two years earlier. Began given here since 2003 and so far have been 16 investigations.

Sofia Kovalievskaia born in Russia in the nineteenth century. It was the first woman in the world to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Despite suffering discrimination because of gender, their research and contributions to science earned him several awards and a reputation throughout Europe.