Imprisoned Iranian Engineer and Activist Wins Peace Prize

Narges Mohammadi
(Center for Human Rights in Iran)
Narges Mohammadi was awarded
After studying physics at Imam Khomeini University, Mohammadi worked as both an engineer and a journalist. Since 2011, she has been repeatedly arrested for her political activities and is currently imprisoned in Iran on charges that include defamation against the state.
In 2018, Mohammadi received the American Physical Society’s Andrei Sakharov Prize
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics went to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for work enabling electron-illuminating ultrafast laser pulses.
The chemistry prize went to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov for developing “quantum dots”