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What is a Scientific Chair?
A Scientific Chair is a research or academic program within a university structure. Its target is to enhance the human knowledge and support the development of active thinking to serve the national society.
The Chair is usually funded by financial aid grants. The Sources of financial aids are either Private aid or Institutional aid or both and it can be paid fully or repayable according to the agreement with the source of the fund.
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Scientific chairs are known all over the world and the most known one is the Lucasian’s Chair of mathematics that was deeded in December 1663 at Cambridge University as a result of a gift from Henry Lucas. The chair was occupied by more than 17 well known scientist such as Sir Isaac Newton who is the most known in the history
of science and the current holder is Stephen Hawking.
The USA is considered a pioneer in the number of academic chairs as it counts in thousands, Canada has more than 2000 chairs, South Africa hold more than 200 and in Saudi Arabia by the end of 2007 there were around 50 chairs. Some of those are Arabian funded chairs at an International university such as King Abdul Aziz Chair at California University, King Fahd’s Chair at London University, Prince Naif’s Chair at Mosco University, Prince Waleed Bin Talal’s Chair at Harvard University, Sultan Qaboo Chair at Cambridge University and Mohammed Saeed Farsi’s Chair at The American
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