Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
Also known as Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prince Sultan bin Salman al-Saud
Saudi Arabian astronaut and politician
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- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,471x
- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,599x
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,549x
- Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
· 2020 · cited 21,346x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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Sultan bin Salman Al Saud (Arabic: سلطان بن سلمان آل سعود; Sulṭān bin Salmān Āl Suʿūd; born 27 June 1956) is a Saudi prince and former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the American STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist. He is the first member of a royal family to fly in space, the first Arab and the first Muslim to fly in space, as well as (at 28 years old) the youngest person ever to fly on a space shuttle. On 27 December 2018, he was appointed as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Space Commission with the rank of minister. He is the eldest surviving son of King Salman and one of the grandsons of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz.
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1956 births20th-century Saudi Arabian people21st-century Saudi Arabian politiciansChildren of Salman of Saudi ArabiaLiving peopleMilitary personnel of the Gulf WarOfficers of the Legion of HonourPeople from RiyadhPrinces of Saudi ArabiaRecipients of the Order of Al-Hussein bin AliRecipients of the Order of Leopold IIRoyal Saudi Air Force personnel