Science without borders

Petr Lyukimson, Israerl. Exclusively to VK

Jordan has opened the International Center Science Center for Physics of Micro-particles. Scientists from Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan will work together at the center. Bahrain and some other Arab states will join them soon.

The mentioned states signed an agreement to cooperate in physics and construction of a new science center 30 km from the Israeli border. Each state invested $5 million in the project. 37-year old Hamad Travun, a graduate of the Stockholm University, PhD with post-graduate studies at the Berkley University (California) has become the center’s head.

The idea to build the center appeared at the Sinai international conference for physics in 1995, after the murder of Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin. Physicists of the Middle East, Africa and Asia decided not to wait for European support and build their own center. A founder of the center Israeli physicist Eliever Rabinovich, professor of the Jewish University, Director of the Institute for Advanced Technologies, believes that it would contribute to rapprochement of peoples.