World Scientific Newsletter October 2010(English Version) Page 1

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World Scientific congratulates our Managing Director,
Ms. Doreen Liu,on her winning the coveted Entrepreneur
of the Year Awardat this year's Women in Asia Awards

World Scientific congratulates our Managing Director, Ms Doreen Liu, on her winning the coveted RBS Coutts/Financial Times (FT) Entrepreneur of the Year Award at this year's Women in Asia Awards.To recognize the many contributions of women to business and society today, RBS Coutts and Financial Times established the Women in Asia Awards in 2009. Hong Kong was chosen as the first location to launch the award, followed by Singapore in 2010.

Managing Director Doreen Liu

named Financial Times/RBS Coutts Entrepreneur of the Year

"Asian women are increasingly shaping boardroom decisions, driving government policies and inspiring their communities. The Women in Asia Awards aim to promote, encourage and recognize the growing ranks of successful women across the region," said the organizers. "With the awards, we hope to give women that extra recognition of their success,¡± said Ms Esther Heer, head of private banking, North Asia, RBS Coutts.

Ms Liu founded World Scientific with her husband, Dr. Phua Kok Khoo who is the Chairman of the company since 30 years ago. World Scientific is now one of the world's leading and Asia's biggest international scientific publishers. It publishes more than 500 new titles and 120 journals per year. All of World Scientific's titles, both journals and books, are now online and some are on mobile devices. It is the exclusive publisher of the Nobel Lectures series and owner of Imperial College Press.

World Scientific Authors Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics

World Scientific is pleased to be associated with the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov. Professors Geim and Novoselov were jointly awarded the Prize for their ground-breaking work on graphene and other free-standing two-dimensional crystals.

Professor Geim, a Fellow of the Royal Society, is the Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, where he directs the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology. He is known for his research on graphene, gecko tape, and diamagnetic levitation. An experiment on diamagnetic levitation garnered him and his co-researcher Sir Michael Berry the IgNobel Prize in 2000, making Professor Geim the first academic to win both the Nobel and IgNobel Prizes. Professor Geim has contributed to World Scientific's Modern Physics Letters B.

Professor Novoselov, a Fellow of the Royal Society, is also based at the University of Manchester's Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, where he conducts research on graphene. He has published numerous articles on mesoscopic superconductivity, sub-atomic movements of magnetic domain walls, gecko tape, and graphene. Together with Professor Geim, Professor Novoselov was awarded the Europhysics Prize for his work on graphene, and they have contributed articles to World Scientific's International of Modern Physics B, International Journal of Nanoscience, and Nanoscience and Technology.

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