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Education Minister meets Prof. Amano Hiroshi
Society | EducationUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Education, Culture and Science L.Gantomor Monday received Professor Amano Hiroshi, a Japanese physicist and a Nobel Prize laureate from the Nagoya University.
Professor Amano expressed thanks to the Education Minister for giving an opportunity for conducting joint research with Mongolian scholars and students, and said he would be glad to collaborate with Mongolians in the scientific field.
Noting that Mongolia aims to become a country for sciences, Mr Gantomor pointed out the Ministry has started reforms in all levels of the education sector of Mongolia with a purpose of exporting its products made of knowledge and skills of Mongolians. “In order to fulfil the goal, we need your support. I really hope many Mongolian students will be prepared by Professor Amano,” he said.
Within his three-day visit, Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Amano Hiroshi will be received by the Premier Ch.Saikhanbileg, and then he will give a lecture themed “Shining the world with LED” to Mongolian scholars, teachers and students. He will leg laboratories of the Mongolian State University (MSU) and the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST).
Prof. Amano invented the LED in 1990, and he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
