Dec 20, 2017
AMMAN — Khaled Toukan, head of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Application in the Middle East (SESAME), was named as one of the 10 people who mattered in science and contributed to global science in 2017, according to Nature’s 10, a prestigious nature scientific journal. Toukan was recognised for his role in the opening of SESAME, the Middle East’s first synchrotron, after 20 years of development, according to the magazine.