TWAS:The Official Website of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World TWAS, formerly known as the Third World Academy of Sciences, was founded on November 10, 1983, and is based in Trieste, Italy, as a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit international scientific organization.

Since its founding, the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries has been The Institute is committed to supporting and promoting scientific research activities in developing countries, providing the necessary conditions for outstanding scientists in developing countries to promote their scientific work, encouraging research and development on common problems in developing countries, promoting exchanges and cooperation between scientists and scientific research institutions in developing countries, in order to improve the scientific research level of scientists in developing countries, and to train the future generation of promising scientists, thereby To promote the vigorous development of basic and applied science in developing countries.

The Fellows of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries are elected from prominent scientists in scientific academies, national research councils, universities and research institutes in developing countries, and scientific organizations in developed countries, and are distributed in ten major fields, including mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, engineering science and technology, medicine, and social and economic sciences. They have all made outstanding contributions to the development of science in developing countries in their respective fields of study. They have all made outstanding contributions to the development of science in their respective disciplines;