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Antoine E Boutros is the Editor-in-Chief of Al Computer, Communications & Electronics magazine, since its issuance in 1983. The publication is published by Dar Assayad Publishing House. He is also the director of research and director of special projects in Dar Assayad.
For the past forty years, Antoine Boutros has founded and contributed in the foundation of several research centers, and in the launching of the first specialized magazines in the Arab World. He was the first to write about computer science in Arabic. He frequently appears on TV to highlight scientific events and has participated in numerous international conferences and conventions. He has worked as a consultant for the ESCWA (United Nations/ Economic & Social Commission for West Asia) and the UNDP (United Nations Development Program). Antoine Boutros is considered one of the motivators of the cultural renewal in Lebanon in the sixties. He is the author and co-author of around 20 books and dictionaries and the author of around 400 articles on science, culture, history & international affairs.
Antoine Boutros shared the 1991 Award of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS ) for Best Science Book in Arabic.
Of his publications are:
The Arabic Ages of Astronomy: From Sumer to the Present (in Arabic); Cairo, 2003
The Trial and Execution of Antoun Saade (a Documentary) (in Arabic); Beirut, 2002
The Pyramids of Giza & Correlation With Astronomy (in Arabic); Riad Rayess Publications
Major Scientific Revolutions in the 20th Century (in Arabic); Beirut, 1994
Illustrated Dictionary of Computing Science (in Arabic); Beirut, 1994
Mr. Boutros was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1938 and is married with two daughters. More about him can be viewed on the following website: www.irthsumer.com
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The Code of Life Antoine Boutos - Despite the milestones achieved in deciphering the cell and specifying the secret of life and how genetic instructions move from one cell to the next, the mystery of how the genetic...
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DNA: the keeper of the secret of life Antoine Boutros - In our present series on the DNA we have demonstrated how this unique substance is the factor that passes genetic instructions from one cell to another. We must now deal with another...
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DNA = Heredity Antoine Boutros - Wondering about the availability of evidence that the DNA is the hereditary factor that transfers genetic instructions from one cell to another, was the closing statement of last month’s...
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Where Could the Secret of Life Be Found? Antoine Boutros - Experiments aiming at identifying the structure of DNA caught the attention of a young American scientist, by the name of James Watson, who had just graduated from Indiana University...
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How does information pass from one cell to another? Antoine Boutros - In 1969, the Swiss Biochemist Friedrich Miescher succeeded in isolating an enigmatic chemical substance in the nucleus of the cell. Heedless of that substance’s significance, Miescher...
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The discovery of the Gene Antoine Boutros - Mendel’s experiments had significant scientific and economic implications. As a result of his knowledge of the laws of genetics and rules of hybridization, scientists were able to...
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Chromosomes, the key to genetics Antoine Boutros - Genetics is the process by which features are transmitted from the parent to the offspring. However, it is an uncertain process; we cannot determine its direction in advance. The child...
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What a Miracle? What if we could watch a video of the cell while it divides itself and reproduces? What we shall see is undoubtedly one of the most exciting spectacles Antoine Boutros - We shall see something like an urgent delivery taking place. As if an urgent message arrives and suddenly all activities in the cell stop as if a plant closed down and its workers...
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Bold experiments in the DNA revival Antoine Boutros - The success of the process of reviving extinct plant or animal species depends on the success of scientists in extracting a specific molecule from the amino acids present in the nucleus...
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Reviving the life saving code Antoine Boutros - Ninety-five million years ago, two flies were flying above the surface of a wide lake that later became the American State of New Jersey. They landed on the trunk of a tree most probably...
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