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KECEMERLANGAN SAINSSCIENCE EXCELLENCEmengenai <strong>Sains</strong>, Teknologi dan Inovasi Islam bertajuk‘Refl ection on Science, Technology and Innovationin the Muslim World’; pelancaran buku Prof ZewailVoyage Through Time yang diterjemahkan ke BahasaMelayu oleh YB Menteri, MOSTI; upacara KonvokesyenKhas penganugerahan Doktor Kehormat oleh UniversitiKebangsaan Teknologi, kunjungan hormat menemuiYAB Perdana Menteri pada 9 Ogos.of the International Symposium on Islamic Science,Technology and Innovation entitled ‘Refl ections onScience, Technology and Innovation in the MuslimWorld’; launch of Prof Zewail’s Book: Voyage ThroughTime translated into Malay by YB Minister, MOSTI; SpecialConvocation ceremony for the Conferment of HonoraryDoctorate by University Technology <strong>Malaysia</strong>, CourtesyCall on YAB Prime Minister on 9 August.◄ SyarahanUmum oleh ProfAhmed Zewail.Public Lectureby Prof AhmedZewail.Prof Zewail bergandingkan dengan wakil dari ASM dan universiti.Prof Zewail with ASM and university offi cials. ▲Prof Sherwood Rowland(Pemenang Hadiah Nobeldalam bidang Kimia, 1995)Prof Sherwood Rowland (Pemenang Hadiah Nobel dalambidang Kimia, 1995) telah menyampaikan syarahanbertajuk ‘Peningkatan Suhu Global dan Perubahan Iklim’bertempat di Palace of Golden Horses pada 21 Ogos.Syarahan ini telah dihadiri oleh lebih 400 penyelidik danperumus polisi yang terlibat dalam bidang perubahaniklim di <strong>Malaysia</strong>.Dalam syarahan beliau, Prof Rowland memberitahubahawa pencairan ais dan permafrost di kawasankutub utara dan penyusutan glasier merupakan petunjukmengenai peningkatan suhu global yang bukan hanyamerupakan satu amaran mengenai masa depansebaliknya menunjukkan perubahan yang telah berlaku.Kesan awal peningkatan suhu ini memang sudah jelas,dan apa yang merunsingkan ialah perubahan besariklim dalam masa terdekat. Beliau juga membincangkanmodel kemungkinan masa depan terhadap atmosferaakibat meningkatnya pembebasan gas-gas rumah hijaudan sesetengah kesan yang mungkin berlaku berikutanProfessor SherwoodRowland (Nobel Prize inChemistry 1995)Prof Sherwood Rowland (1995 Nobel Laureate inChemistry) delivered a lecture entitled ‘Global Warmingand Climate Change’ at the Palace of Golden HorsesHotel on 21 August which was attended by more than400 researchers and policy makers involved in the areaof climate change in <strong>Malaysia</strong>.In his lecture, Prof Rowland mentioned that the meltingof ice and permafrost in the North Polar region and theshrinking of glaciers are signals that global warming is nolonger solely a warning about the future, but changeswhich have already taken place. The initial effects ofthis warming are noticeably present already, and theconcerns were now of substantial climate change inthe near future. He also discussed modeling of thefuture consequences to the atmosphere from increasedrelease of greenhouse gases and some of the possibleIn Pursuit of Excellence in Science 59

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