Seems that 2014 was a fruitful year from a scientific point of view for Muslim scientists and Muslim countries who proved that the Muslim World didn’t stop producing science in the Medieval Ages, but their valuable contributions flood the modern ages as well.
Check the following list of brilliant Muslim scientific achievements in a big variety of different scientific fields and disciplines in 2014.
Genetics
Scientists co-led by the Egyptian geneticist Dr. Sherif El-Khamisy at the Center of Genomics (CG), Zewail City of Science and Technology (ZC) in Egypt.
A team of researchers led by the Iranian computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist Pardis Sabeti trained doctors from the Muslim countries Nigeria.
Dr. Teepu Siddique, a Pakistani neurologist succeeded with his team in discovering one of the causes of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
The Moroccan geneticist Dr. Ismahane Elouafi was named among the 20 Most Influential Women in Science in the Islamic World under the Shapers category.
Medicine
A Kashmiri molecular neurotherapist and stem cells professor has successfully discovered a brain cancer treatment.
Two Egyptian scientists created space-based crystals of two proteins of the Hepatitis C virus. The crystals which were developed in space can help in innovating new drugs to fight the virus.
Scientists in the Muslim country of Bashkortostan are developing a technology to make monoclonal antibodies specific to fight the Ebola virus.
Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor who led Sierra Leone’s fight against the worst Ebola outbreak and the one who treated more than 100 patients and dozens of health workers, died from the virus.
The Muslim country of Bashkortostan succeeded in obtaining a license from the Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, to start producing a cure for one of the types of Leukemia.
Mathematics
An Iranian mathematician became the first ever female winner of the celebrated Fields Medal. In a landmark hailed as “long overdue”.
Kazakhstani Muslim scientist proves the existence of a solution to Navier Stokes Equation which is deemed one of the hardest in the world.
Engineering
The Moroccan engineering scientist Rachid Yazami became a co-winner of 2014 Draper Prize by the US’s National Academy of Engineering for pioneering and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium ion battery.
Three Malaysian academics were chosen among the world’s leading scientific minds, according to a report by business information firm Thomson Reuters.
Education
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), four Muslim countries were ranked in the top 20 destinations all over the world for international students.
Space
The European space probes Rosetta and Philae didn’t only have Egyptian names to commemorate the Egyptian Civilization’s contributions to humanity.
Egyptian students were ranked internationally among the top 10 teams of space engineering youth groups that participated at the University Rover Challenge (URC), in USA.
A young female Kazakh inventor Nazifa Baktybayeva created a real in-orbit satellite that allows Kazakhstani students to conduct research based on materials obtained from space.