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International Partnership & Cooperation Center

Builds global research networks and coordinates international collaborations for advancing geoscience frontiers, negotiating bilateral and multilateral partnership agreements and pursuing international funding opportunities such as Horizon Europe and NSF.

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Abdus Salam

Center Head

💡 Electroweak unification theory (1979 Nobel Prize in Physics), founder of ICTP

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1908–2002

Victor Weisskopf

Researcher

💡 Directed CERN and championed "Big Science," the management model for large, multinational, long-term collaborative research consortia sharing infrastructure and personnel

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1925–2023

M. S. Swaminathan

Researcher

💡 Led the Green Revolution in India through international agricultural research cooperation (CIMMYT/IRRI), founding a model for technology transfer and capacity building with developing-world research systems

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1769–1859

Alexander von Humboldt

Researcher

💡 Conducted the era-defining international scientific expedition across the Americas and built an extensive global correspondence network, pioneering the model of internationally collaborative field science

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1838–1889

Karl Weyprecht

Researcher

💡 Proposed the International Polar Year (first held 1882-83), the historical precursor to the IGY and the first coordinated international scientific observation campaign

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1899–1993

Pierre Victor Auger

Researcher

💡 Served as UNESCO's first Director of Natural Sciences and helped found COSPAR and CERN, establishing frameworks for sharing international scientific research infrastructure

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1908–1989

Edoardo Amaldi

Researcher

💡 Co-founded CERN and the European Space Research Organisation (precursor of ESA), pioneering the model of pooled multinational scientific infrastructure

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1905–1967

Lloyd Berkner

Researcher

💡 Proposed and helped organize the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), the largest coordinated international scientific collaboration in history at the time, involving 67 nations

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1859–1917

L. L. Zamenhof

Researcher

💡 Created Esperanto, the most widely adopted constructed international auxiliary language, designed to overcome linguistic barriers to cross-border cooperation

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1897–1986

Philip Jessup

Researcher

💡 A leading international law scholar and judge on the International Court of Justice who developed the legal frameworks (including for Antarctica) governing bilateral and multilateral scientific cooperation agreements

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1866–1959

Abraham Flexner

Researcher

💡 Founded the Institute for Advanced Study and pioneered the philanthropic-foundation model of recruiting and funding international scholars independent of national government channels

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1905–1995

J. William Fulbright

Researcher

💡 Founded the Fulbright Program, the world's largest and most prestigious international academic and researcher exchange program

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1908–2005

Joseph Rotblat

Researcher

💡 Founded the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, pioneering "Track II" scientist-led diplomacy across Cold War political divides; awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize

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1896–1995

Laurence McKinley Gould

Researcher

💡 Advocated for and helped shape the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, establishing the model of a demilitarized, science-dedicated international commons governed by treaty

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1887–1975

Julian Huxley

Researcher

💡 Served as the first Director-General of UNESCO, institutionalizing international scientific cooperation and policy coordination as a permanent global function

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