Mulugeta Bekele
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Mulugeta Bekele | |
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ሙሉጌታ በቀለ | |
 Prof. Mulugeta Bekele at Prakriti Canteen at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India on 30 August 2014 | |
| Born | Mulugeta Bekele 2 January 1947 Arsi, Ethiopia |
| Occupation | Physicist |
Mulugeta Bekele (
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
, Trieste, Italy since May 1999.
Life and career
Mulugeta was born in
University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. He then returned home to Ethiopia as a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Addis Ababa University
.
Mulugeta participated in democracy-seeking rebel movements during the time of the Ethiopian monarchy's ouster by the
Mengistu
regime; at first for nine months in 1978, and then for the six years from 1979 to 1985.
After Mulugeta's release from prison in 1987 at the age of 39, he returned to AAU to teach. In 1991, he joined the
ICTP
for six years.
A prominent figure on the AAU campus, Mulugeta is also one of the founding members of the Ethiopian Physical Society. He served for four years as the organization's president.
Achievements and contributions
Mulugeta's research is internationally supported by the
Andrei Sakharov Prize, which was presented at the APS March 2012 meeting in Boston, MA, 27 February – 2 March 2012, at a special Ceremonial session.[2]
References
- ^ "2012 Andrei Sakharov Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 16 November 2017.