List of Muslim scientists
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceAamir Jalal Al Mosawi, MD, PhD is the most distinguished Iraqi physician during the previous 3 centuries. He is the Head of Copernicus Scientists International Panel in Iraq [1],the pioneer of Pediatric Nephrology in Iraq and the President of the Iraqi Society of Pediatric Nephrology [2]. One of his greatest scientific achievement was the description of a new model for the management of end-stage renal failure [3-7] .He described the first case of Coffin Siris syndrome in the Arab and an Iraqi variant of Lowe syndrome [8-13].He described a new therapy for refractory vitamin D-resistant rickets[14] ,and for childhood pediatric urolithiasis [15] and also for achondroplasia [16]. He also described a novel association of “Idiopathic hyeruricosuria, hypercalciuria and infantile renal stone disease” and its therapeutic approach [17] He is the reviewer of many International peer review medical journals :BMJ,Acta pediatrica ,Nephrology, Medical Science Monitor, Therapy, The Lancet ,Journal of pediatric neurology , Southern medical journal, Clinical Anatomy References 1- 2006http://my.indexcopernicus.com/Al%20Mosawi 2-www.iraqisocpediatrnephrol.4t.com 3-Al Mosawi AJ.'The use of acacia gum in end stage renal failure'.J Trop Pediatr. 2007 Oct; 53(5):362-5. PMID: 17517814 4-Al-Mosawi AJ.Acacia gum supplementation of a low-protein diet in children with end-stage renal disease.Pediatr Nephrol. 2004 ; 19(10):1156-9. PMID: 15293039 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 5-Al-Mosawi AJ.The challenge of chronic renal failure in the developing world: possible use of acacia gum.Pediatr Nephrol. 2002 May; 17(5):390-1. PMID: 12042902 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 6-Mosawi AJ.Continuouos renal replacement in the developing world: Is there any alternative. Therapy (London) 2006:3(2): 265-272.Research. www.futuremedicine.com 7-Al-Mosawi AJ.Acacia gum therapeutic potential: possible role in the management of uremia – a new potential medicine. Therapy, March 2006; 3(2) 301-321. www.futuremedicine.com 8-Al Mosawi AJ.Genetic drift. Letter from Baghdad: Coffin-Siris syndrome in a girl with absent kidney. Am J Med Genet A. 2006 Aug 15; 140(16):1789-90. PMID: 16830329 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 9-AJ Al Mosawi.Unilateral renal agenesis associated with the 76th case of Coffin Siris syndrome in the world. Pediatr Nephrol 2006; 21(10): 1564. (Abstracts: The 40th annual meeting of the ESPN October 7-10 Palermo Italy www.espn2006.org) 10-Al MosawiAJ.Oculo-cerebro-renal syndrome phenotype in four Iraqi children. JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY .2007; 5 (1):75-78. (www.jpneurology.org) 11-AJ Al Mosawi.Early onset end-stage renal failure in Oculo-cerebro-renal syndrome phenotype: novel occurrence. Pediatr Nephrol 2006; 21(10): 1570. (Abstracts: The 40th annual meeting of the ESPN October 7-10 Palermo Italy www.espn2006.org) 12-AJ Al Mosawi. Early onset end-stage renal failure in oculo-cerebro-renal phenotype: novel occurrence . European Journal of Pediatrics. Volume 165, Supplement 1 / November, 2006 : 1-389 (Abstracts: European Academy of Pediatrics 2006-10-07 - 2006-10-10 Barcelona, Spain www.kenes.com/europaediatrics/). 13- Al Mosawi AJ. Unilateral renal agenesis associated with 76th case of coffin-Siris syndrome in the world European Journal of Pediatrics. Volume 165, Supplement 1 / November, 2006 : 1-389 (Abstracts: European Academy of Pediatrics 2006-10-07 - 2006-10-10 Barcelona, Spain www.kenes.com/europaediatrics/). 14-Al-Mosawi AJ. Experience with refractory vitamin D-resistant rickets and non-17α alkyl testosterone derivative anabolic agent Therapy (London). January issue (2005) Vol 2 (1):91-94 .Research. www.futuremedicine.com 15-Al-Mosawi AJ.A possible role of essential oil terpenes in the management of childhood Urolithiasis. Therapy (London) March 2005.Vol 2(2):243-247.Research. www.futuremedicine.com 16-Mosawi AJ. Dramatic effect of non-17 alpha alkyl testosterone derivative anabolic agent on growth in a child with achondroplasia on the short term. Therapy (London) 2006:3(5): 605-607. www.future-dugs.com (ISSN: 1475-0708). 17-Idiopathic hyeruricosuria, hypercalciuria and infantile renal stone disease: new association and therapeutic approach. Therapy (London) 2006:3(6): 755-757.
Science in the Islamic world has played an important role in the history of science. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists.
Astronomers and Astrophysicists
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Yaqūb ibn Tāriq
- Ibrahim al-Fazari
- Muhammad al-Fazari
- Mashallah
- Naubakht
- Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Al-Farghani
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Al-Majriti
- Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
- Abu Sa'id Gorgani
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Al-Mahani
- Al-Marwazi
- Al-Nayrizi
- Al-Saghani
- Al-Farghani
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi)
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Yunus
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (Alpetragius)
- Averroes
- Al-Jazari
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Anvari
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician
- Taqi al-Din, Ottoman astronomer
- Ahmad Nahavandi
- Haly Abenragel
- Ghallia Kaouk
- Abolfadl Harawi
- Kerim Kerimov, a founder of Soviet space program and a lead architect behind first human spaceflight (Vostok 1) and space stations (Salyut and Mir)
- Farouk El-Baz, a NASA scientist involved in the first Moon landings with the Apollo program
- Abdul Kalam
- Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Muhammed Faris
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand
- Talgat Musabayev
- Anousheh Ansari
- Amir Ansari
- Essam Heggy, a planetary scientist involved in the NASA Mars Exploration Program
- Ahmed Salem
- Alaa Ibrahim
- Mohamed Sultan
- Ahmed Noor
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, pioneer of biomedical research in space
Chemists and Alchemists
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber), father of chemistry
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman)
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Al-Majriti
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Al-Khazini
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Hasan al-Rammah
- Ibn Khaldun
- Sake Dean Mahomet
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
- Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999
- Ali Eftekhari
Computer Scientists
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Iranian computer scientist; founder of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory
- Jawed Karim, Bangladeshi American software engineer; lead architect of PayPal and co-founder of YouTube
- Pierre Omidyar, Iranian American entrepeneur; founder of eBay
Economists and Social Scientists
- Muhammad (570-632), discussed corporate social responsibility
- Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man (699-767), economist
- Abu Yusuf (731-798), economist
- Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi (854–931), economist
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius) (873–950), economist
- Shams al-Mo'ali Abol-hasan Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir (Qabus) (d. 1012), economist
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048), considered the "first anthropologist" and father of Indology
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037), economist
- Ibn Miskawayh (b. 1030), economist
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel) (1058–1111), economist
- Al-Mawardi (1075–1158), economist
- Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (Tusi) (1201-1274), economist
- Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288), sociologist
- Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), economist
- Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), father of demography, cultural history, historiography, the philosophy of history, sociology, the social sciences, and economics.
- Al-Maqrizi (1364-1442), economist
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist; pioneer of microcredit
- Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistani economist; developer of Human Development Index and founder of Human Development Report
- Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist; father of microcredit and microfinance
Geographers and Earth Scientists
- Muhammad, discussed environmental philosophy
- Al-Masudi, the "Herodotus of the Arabs", and pioneer of historical geography
- Al-Kindi, pioneer of environmental science
- Qusta ibn Luqa
- Ibn Al-Jazzar
- Al-Tamimi
- Al-Masihi
- Avicenna
- Ali ibn Ridwan
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, father of geodesy, considered the first geologist and "first anthropologist"
- Avicenna
- Ibn Jumay
- Abd-el-latif
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Ibn al-Quff
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Khaldun
- Piri Reis
- Evliya Çelebi
Mathematicians
- Further information: Islamic mathematics: Biographies
- Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Algorismi) - father of algebra and algorithms
- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
- 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Al-Mahani
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Al-Majriti
- Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam
- Al-Nayrizi
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Brethren of Purity
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Al-Saghani
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Sahl
- Al-Sijzi
- Ibn Yunus
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Al-Karaji
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
- Al-Nasawi
- Al-Jayyani
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel)
- Al-Samawal
- Averroes
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Ibn Mun`im
- Al-Marrakushi
- Ibn al-Banna'
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 13th century Persian mathematician and philosopher
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Al-Khalili
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg
- Taqi al-Din
- Muhammad Baqir Yazdi
- Ibn Baso
- Abū al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Qalasādī (1412-1482), pioneer of symbolic algebra
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Iranian computer scientist; founder of Fuzzy Mathematics and fuzzy set theory
- Cumrun Vafa
- Jeffrey Lang Professor at the University of Kansas converted to Islam from atheism
Neuroscientists and Psychologists
- Muhammad, discussed mental health
- Ibn Sirin (654–728), author of work on dreams and dream interpretation
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus), pioneer of psychotherapy and music therapy
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi, pioneer of mental health, medical psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive therapy, psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine
- Najab ud-din Muhammad, pioneer of mental disorder classification
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), pioneer of social psychology and consciousness studies
- Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas), pioneer of neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), pioneer of neurosurgery
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), founder of experimental psychology, psychophysics, phenomenology and visual perception
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, pioneer of reaction time
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina), pioneer of physiological psychology, neuropsychiatry, thought experiment, self-awareness and self-consciousness
- Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), pioneer of neurology and neuropharmacology
- Averroes, pioneer of Parkinson's disease
- Ibn Tufail, pioneer of tabula rasa and nature versus nurture
Physicians and Surgeons
- Aamir Jalal Al Mosawi, MD, PhD is the most distinguished Iraqi physician during the previous 3 centuries. He is the Head of Copernicus Scientists International Panel in Iraq [1],the pioneer of Pediatric Nephrology in Iraq and the President of the Iraqi Society of Pediatric Nephrology [2]. One of his greatest scientific achievement was the description of a new model for the management of end-stage renal failure [3-7] .He described the first case of Coffin Siris syndrome in the Arab and an Iraqi variant of Lowe syndrome [8-13].He described a new therapy for refractory vitamin D-resistant rickets[14] ,and for childhood pediatric urolithiasis [15] and also for achondroplasia [16]. He also described a novel association of “Idiopathic hyeruricosuria, hypercalciuria and infantile renal stone disease” and its therapeutic approach [17]
He is the reviewer of many International peer review medical journals :BMJ, Acta pediatrica ,Nephrology, Medical Science Monitor, Therapy, The Lancet ,Journal of pediatric neurology , Southern medical journal, Clinical Anatomy
References
1- 2006http://my.indexcopernicus.com/Al%20Mosawi 2-www.iraqisocpediatrnephrol.4t.com
3-Al Mosawi AJ.'The use of acacia gum in end stage renal failure'.J Trop Pediatr. 2007 Oct; 53(5):362-5. PMID: 17517814
4-Al-Mosawi AJ.Acacia gum supplementation of a low-protein diet in children with end-stage renal disease.Pediatr Nephrol. 2004 ; 19(10):1156-9. PMID: 15293039 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
5-Al-Mosawi AJ.The challenge of chronic renal failure in the developing world: possible use of acacia gum.Pediatr Nephrol. 2002 May; 17(5):390-1. PMID: 12042902 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 6-Mosawi AJ.Continuouos renal replacement in the developing world: Is there any alternative. Therapy (London) 2006:3(2): 265-272.Research. www.futuremedicine.com 7-Al-Mosawi AJ.Acacia gum therapeutic potential: possible role in the management of uremia – a new potential medicine. Therapy, March 2006; 3(2) 301-321. www.futuremedicine.com
8-Al Mosawi AJ.Genetic drift. Letter from Baghdad: Coffin-Siris syndrome in a girl with absent kidney. Am J Med Genet A. 2006 Aug 15; 140(16):1789-90. PMID: 16830329 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
9-AJ Al Mosawi.Unilateral renal agenesis associated with the 76th case of Coffin Siris syndrome in the world. Pediatr Nephrol 2006; 21(10): 1564. (Abstracts: The 40th annual meeting of the ESPN October 7-10 Palermo Italy www.espn2006.org)
10-Al MosawiAJ.Oculo-cerebro-renal syndrome phenotype in four Iraqi children. JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY .2007; 5 (1):75-78. (www.jpneurology.org) 11-AJ Al Mosawi.Early onset end-stage renal failure in Oculo-cerebro-renal syndrome phenotype: novel occurrence. Pediatr Nephrol 2006; 21(10): 1570. (Abstracts: The 40th annual meeting of the ESPN October 7-10 Palermo Italy www.espn2006.org) 12-AJ Al Mosawi. Early onset end-stage renal failure in oculo-cerebro-renal phenotype: novel occurrence . European Journal of Pediatrics. Volume 165, Supplement 1 / November, 2006 : 1-389 (Abstracts: European Academy of Pediatrics 2006-10-07 - 2006-10-10 Barcelona, Spain
www.kenes.com/europaediatrics/).
13- Al Mosawi AJ. Unilateral renal agenesis associated with 76th case of coffin-Siris syndrome in the world European Journal of Pediatrics. Volume 165, Supplement 1 / November, 2006 : 1-389 (Abstracts: European Academy of Pediatrics 2006-10-07 - 2006-10-10 Barcelona, Spain
www.kenes.com/europaediatrics/).
14-Al-Mosawi AJ. Experience with refractory vitamin D-resistant rickets and non-17α alkyl testosterone derivative anabolic agent Therapy (London). January issue (2005) Vol 2 (1):91-94 .Research. www.futuremedicine.com
15-Al-Mosawi AJ.A possible role of essential oil terpenes in the management of childhood Urolithiasis. Therapy (London) March 2005.Vol 2(2):243-247.Research. www.futuremedicine.com
16-Mosawi AJ. Dramatic effect of non-17 alpha alkyl testosterone derivative anabolic agent on growth in a child with achondroplasia on the short term. Therapy (London) 2006:3(5): 605-607. www.future-dugs.com (ISSN: 1475-0708).
17-Idiopathic hyeruricosuria, hypercalciuria and infantile renal stone disease: new association and therapeutic approach. Therapy (London) 2006:3(6): 755-757.
- Muhammad, discussed contagion and early Islamic medical treatments
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Shapur ibn Sahl (d. 869), pioneer of pharmacy and pharmacopoeia
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801-873), pioneer of pharmacology
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman) (810-887)
- Al-Jahiz, pioneer of natural selection
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of medical encyclopedia
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
- Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi (854–931), pioneer of peer review and medical peer review
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius)
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
- Ibn Al-Jazzar
- Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (d. 994), pioneer of obstetrics and perinatology
- Abu Gaafar Amed ibn Ibrahim ibn abi Halid al-Gazzar (10th century), pioneer of dental restoration
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) - father of modern surgery, and pioneer of neurosurgery, craniotomy, hematology and dental surgery
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), pioneer of eye surgery, visual system and visual perception
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) - father of modern medicine, founder of Unani medicine, pioneer of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacology, aromatherapy, pulsology and sphygmology, and also a philosopher
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) - father of experimental surgery, and pioneer of experimental anatomy, experimental physiology, human dissection, autopsy and tracheotomy
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Baitar
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288), father of circulatory physiology, pioneer of circulatory anatomy, and founder of Nafisian anatomy, physiology, pulsology and sphygmology
- Ibn al-Quff (1233-1305), pioneer of modern embryology
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Ibn Khatima (14th century), pioneer of bacteriology and microbiology
- Ibn al-Khatib (1313-1374)
- Mansur ibn Ilyas
- Saghir Akhtar - pharmacist
- Toffy Musivand
- Samuel Rahbar
- Muhammad B. Yunus, the "father of our modern view of fibromyalgia"
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, pioneer of biomedical research in space
Physicists
- Jafar al-Sadiq, 8th century
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa), 9th century
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman), 9th century
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit), 9th century
- Al-Saghani, 10th century
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi), 10th century
- Ibn Sahl, 10th century
- Ibn Yunus, 10th century
- Al-Karaji, 10th century
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), 11th century Iraqi scientist, father of optics, pioneer of scientific method and experimental physics, considered the "first scientist
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, 11th century, pioneer of Experimental mechanics
- Avicenna, 11th century
- Al-Khazini, 12th century
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), 12th century
- Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Nathanel), 12th century
- Averroes, 12th century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medical expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th century civil engineer, father of robotics, father of modern engineering
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th century
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, 13th century
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, 13th century
- Hasan al-Rammah, 13th century
- Ibn al-Shatir, 14th century
- Taqi al-Din, 16th century
- Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, 17th century
- Lagari Hasan Çelebi, 17th century
- Sake Dean Mahomet, 18th century
- Tipu Sultan, 18th century Indian mechanician
- Fazlur Khan, 20th century Bangladeshi mechanician
- Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Ali Javan, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
- Abdul Kalam, Indian nuclear physicist
- Mehran Kardar, Iranian theoretical physicist
- Cumrun Vafa, Iranian mathematical physicist
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-born Iranian physicist
Political Scientists
See also
- List of Arab scientists and scholars
- List of Iranian scientists and scholars
- Islamic science
- Islamic Golden Age
- Timeline of science and technology in the Islamic world
References
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