Founding Fellows

TWAS's 42 Founding Fellows
The idea to create an academy for scientists from the developing world was first discussed among a small group of internationally renowned researchers in October 1981 during a meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome, Italy. Under the leadership of Abdus Salam, the Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate, the Third World Academy of Sciences – TWAS – was founded in Trieste, Italy, in 1983, with a formal ceremony at the University of Trieste and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The initial class of elected members – TWAS's Founding Fellows – was comprised of 42 scientists, nine of them Nobel laureates.
United Kingdom
02-Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
United Kingdom
08-Mathematical Sciences
Ghana
05-Chemical Sciences
USA
04-Medical and Health Sciences incl. Neurosciences
Mexico
10-Social and Economic Sciences
Guatemala
03-Biological Systems and Organisms
Brazil
02-Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
India
09-Physics
USA
09-Physics
China
08-Mathematical Sciences
Chile
02-Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
India
05-Chemical Sciences
Brazil
01-Agricultural Sciences
Sweden
04-Medical and Health Sciences incl. Neurosciences
China
08-Mathematical Sciences
USA
09-Physics
USA
02-Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
USA
07-Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
Nigeria
04-Medical and Health Sciences incl. Neurosciences
USA
09-Physics