Othaimeen, then, announced the winners of this year's prize in its 5 branches. Sheikh Raed Salah Mahajneh of the State of Palestine won the prize in the branch of the service of Islam. The Prize for Islamic Studies was withheld. The Prize for Arabic language and its literature was won by Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, Egypt. The Prize for medicine and its theme genetic factors of obesity was won jointly by Dr. Jeffrey Michael Friedmann and Dr. Douglas Leonard Coleman of the United States of America. The Prize for science and its theme physics was jointly won by Dr. Paul Bruce Corkum of Canada and Dr. Ferenc Krausz from Austria. --More