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Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (C), poses with Gabriel de Broglie (L), Chancellor of the French Institute, and Helene Carrere d’Encausse (R), perpetual secretary of the French Academy (Litterature), after being installed at the Academy of Fine Arts as an associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005, on June 18, 2008 in Paris. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (L), welcomes former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur and wife Marie-Josephe Balladur at the Academy of Fine Arts on June 18, 2008 in Paris before being installed as an associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (R), poses at the Academy of Fine Arts on June 18, 2008 in Paris before being installed as an associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (C), delivers a speech at the Academy of Fine Arts on June 18, 2008 in Paris before being nominated as associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005. At background from left, perpetual secretary of the institution Arnaud d’Hauteries, Academy of Fine Arts president Yves Millecamps and film director and academician Pierre Schoendoerffer. First row, second left, Gabriel de Broglie Chancellor of the French Institute. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (C), delivers a speech at the Academy of Fine Arts on June 18, 2008 in Paris before being nominated as associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005. At background from left, perpetual secretary of the institution Arnaud d’Hauteries, Academy of Fine Arts president Yves Millecamps and film director and academician Pierre Schoendoerffer. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (third row), sits behind the former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing (second row) at the Academy of Fine Arts on June 18, 2008 in Paris before being installed as an associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili muslims, Prince Karim Aga Khan (C), delivers a speech at the Academy of Fine Arts on June 18, 2008 in Paris before being nominated as associated foreign member replacing Japanese architect Kenzo Tange who died in 2005. At background from left, perpetual secretary of the institution Arnaud d’Hauteries, Academy of Fine Arts president Yves Millecamps and film director and academician Pierre Schoendoerffer. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY
Ismailimail 
Wow again!!!
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Interesting connection:
Gabriel de Broglie is a relative of Louis de Broglie, a 1929 Physics Nobel Laureate. Wiki has this to say about Louis de Broglie:
“His 1924 doctoral thesis, Recherches sur la théorie des quanta (Research on Quantum Theory), introduced his theory of electron waves. This included the wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Albert Einstein and Planck. This research culminated in the de Broglie hypothesis stating that any moving particle or object had an associated wave. De Broglie thus created a new field in physics, the mécanique ondulatoire, or wave mechanics, uniting the physics of light and matter. For this he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929. Among the applications of this work has been the development of electron microscopes to get much better image resolution than optical ones, because of shorter wavelengths of electrons compared with photon.”
De Broglie’s discoveries of the wave-particle duality of matter allowed us to look at the Sun, study the light it emits and tell precisely just by analysing the emitted light what elements of matter and their exact amounts the Sun is composed of. The element Helium was discovered this way (Helios=Sun). Helium is only present in deep subterranean wells on earth but is plentiful in stars.
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It is indeed an interesting connection. Prince de Broglie was the father of Quantum Physics and he was quiet young when he discovered the theory. Another quiet interesting aspect of almost all the visionaries has been that pretty much all of them were very young when they made major discoveries in science.
Anyway, congratulations to His Highness for achieving another one of the distinctive awards, the list is getting quiet long. Mubaraki
AA
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yam,…
This is a great event for us ismili that our imam select for that opportunity.
Anyway, congratulations to His Highness for achieving another one of the distinctive awards, the list is getting quiet long. Mubaraki
ya ali madad
love u alot,
ya ali bapa,
Mehwish Shiraz Virani
Karimabad Jamat Khana
Karachi
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Yam,
Congratulations to our Hazir Imam,for being nominated as associate foreign member at acacademy of fine arts.
LOADS OF LOVE TO HAZIR IMAM.
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Yaa Ali Madad!
Whole HeArTedLy Coguratulations to our beloved YA ALI PAAPA and all jamat for being nominated our MOULA as an AFM at academy of fine atrts in Paris.
this is an another recocgnition of our jamat in front of the world. Lets all jamat go to continue our participation to work with our institutions to acheive the GrEaT ViSiOn of our Beloved HAZIR IMAM.
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Yaa Ali Madad!
IMAMAT DaY MuBaRaK
“LAA FATAA-e-ALLAH ALI ULLAH SAIFa-e-ALLAH ZULFIQAR”
“WA KULLA SHAIing AHSAINAA HU FII IMAM-u-MUBEEN”
Whole HeArTedLy Coguratulations to our beloved HAZIR IMAM and all jamat.
An another recognition of our jamat by nimination of our beloved HAZIR IMAM as an AFM at academy of arts in Paris has agian enhanced our motivation and add in our pleasing movements.
Lets continue our participation to work with our jamati institution for sustainable socio-economic and educational development to become role model in front of the world/universe and among humanbeing to prsent the true definition of ISLAM.
Tanks
Sarfaraz Amin Hunzai
Al Amin Enterprises Hunza, Pakistan
SAN Institute of Management Sciences, Lahore
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Yaa Ali Madad!
Happy Golden jubilee to all ismaili muslim , Hope this Eid brings you happiness and joy throughout the year (amin).ya Ali Bulitfica adrecni.
Hearthly congratulation to our BELOVED HAZIR IMAM for being nominated as AFM at academy of fine arts in Paris.
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