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Lenovo, a global Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial, and enterprise technology has partnered with TWAS to launch a high-level prize to give international recognition and visibility to individual scientists in the developing world for their outstanding scientific achievements. The Prize carries a monetary award of US $ 100,000 provided by Lenovo, as well as a medal and a certificate highlighting the recipient's major contributions to science. Candidates must be nationals of a developing country, who have lived and worked in a developing country for the last 10 years. The prize would be awarded to individuals for scientific research of outstanding international merit carried out at institutions in developing countries. Previous winners of the Trieste Science Prize (also administered by TWAS) are not eligible for this Prize. During the first four-year cycle (2013-2016), the prize subject focused on the basic sciences, with the specific subject area changing each year: Physics and Astronomy (2013), Biological Sciences (2014), Mathematics (2015) and Chemical Sciences (2016). During 2017-2020 cycle, the prize subjects would be: Geological Sciences (2017), Engineering Sciences (2018), Agricultural Sciences (2019) and Social Sciences (2020).