Souad Naij Al-Azzawi, Iraq
2003 in Munich
The geologist Dr. Souad Naij Al-Azzawi completed her doctorate on the radioactive contamination of the groundwater in Colorado by nuclear power plants and returned to Iraq with this knowledge. In 1995/96, as head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Baghdad, she investigated the contamination of soil, water, air and agricultural products by ammunition hardened with depleted uranium.