Prince Khalid Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz, the Governor of Assir Region, Director General of King Faisal Charitable Foundation and Chairman of King Faisal International Prize Panel, tonight announced the winners of the prize for the year 1426 H. (2006) in the fields of Service to Islam, Arabic Language and Literature, Medicine and Science. This year's prize in the field of Islamic studies was withheld. Following are the prize's branches, names of winners and nationalities: Prize for the Service To Islam: co-winners are Sheikh Salih bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-Husayyin, (Saudi Arabia), and Sheikh Yusuf bin Jasim bin Muhammad Al-Hidji (Kuwait); Prize for Islamic Studies (subject: the Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence) was withheld for this year; Prize for Arabic Language and Literature, (subject: the Arabic Language in Modern Linguistics), co-winners are Professor Tammam Hassan Omar (Egypt) and Professor Abdelkader Fassi Fehri (Morocco); Prize for Medicine, (subject: Biology of Vascular Inflammation), winner is Professor Michael Anthony Gimbrone, Jr. (USA); Prize for Science, (subject: Mathematics), co-winners are Professor Simon Kirwan Donaldson, (UK) and Professor Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (India). This came in a press conference held by Prince Khalid at the headquarters of the foundation in Riyadh.
