Which is 'Queen of the Sciences'?
The World Academy of Sciences Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries". The founding fellows of 1983 include The TWAS Prize is an annual award instituted in 1985 by TWAS to recognize excellence in scientific research in the global South. At inception, the award was titled "TWAS Awards in Basic Sciences" and was awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics categories but was merged with the "TWNSO (Third World Network of Scientific Organizations) Prizes in Applied Sciences" in 2003 to form the present-day TWAS Prize, which is awarded in nine categories viz. Agricultural Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Medical Sciences,
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre expanded to physically join with the hospital facilities, effectively dividing Tower Road into two sections north and south of the facility. Historically, "the VG", as it is called, was aligned with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine as the province's only teaching hospital. The Victoria General Hospital's emergency and outpatient services were closed and consolidated at the new Infirmary site in 1998. The QEII Health Sciences Centre is spread across 10 buildings, which now comprise two geographically separate campuses (formally termed "sites") on the Halifax Peninsula. Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, in Halifax,