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Omid Kokabee (Persian: امید کوکبی; born 1982) is an Iranian experimental laser physicist at the University of Texas at Austin who was arrested in Iran after returning from the United States to visit his family in January 30, 2011. He was initially charged with "gathering and colluding against national security" but later after being acquitted from the primary charges, he was trialed for “communicating with a hostile government (USA)” and “illegitimate/illegal earnings”. 〔(UT student faces espionage charges ) By Samian Quazi| dailytexanonline.com| 3 October 2011〕 Even though he repeatedly denied all charges against himself, he was finally sentenced to ten years in prison. In September 2013, the American Physical Society announced Kokabee as a co-recipient of its 2014 Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS) for "his courage in refusing to use his physics knowledge to work on projects that he deemed harmful to humanity in the face of extreme physical and psychological pressure".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS) 2014 )〕 In November 2013, Amnesty International released a public statement declaring Kokabee a "prisoner of conscience, held solely for his refusal to work on military projects in Iran and as a result of spurious charges related to his legitimate scholarly ties with academic institutions outside of Iran." In that statement Amnesty asked for "his immediate and unconditional release".〔http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/047/2013/en〕 In October 2014, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded Kokabee its 2014 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award "for his courageous stand and willingness to endure imprisonment rather than violate his moral stance that his scientific expertise not be used for destructive purposes and for his efforts to provide hope and education to fellow prisoners".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award (AAAS) 2014 )〕 == Life and education == Kokabee is from Iran's mostly Sunni Muslim Turkmen ethnic group.〔 He was ranked 29th in the Iranian university entrance exam, which is held annually with more than one million participants. He entered Sharif University of Technology in 2000 and completed a double major undergraduate program in Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering. In 2007, he went to Spain to obtain his Master's degree in Photonics at Polytechnic University of Catalonia and his PhD at the Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, in Barcelona. Omid started his second PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. He has published more than twenty collaborative papers including seven journal publications, among which lies his publications in ''Optics Letters''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Omid Kokabee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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