Just now, the winners of the "China Nobel Prize" Future Science Award were announced!
On the morning of September 12, the winners of the "China Nobel Prize"-Future Science Prize were announced.
After 9 months of selection, Yuan Guoyong and other scientists won awards.
The Future Science Award was formally established in 2016. The award has the reputation of "China Nobel Prize". It is the first civil science award initiated by scientists and entrepreneurs in the mainland of my country. Powerful scientific research results.
It has three awards for life sciences, material sciences, mathematics and computer sciences, with a single prize of 1 million U.S. dollars.
At the press conference, the sealed list of winners was taken apart for the first time.
The life science award winners are Professor Yuan Guoyong and Pei Weishi of the University of Hong Kong. They discovered that the coronavirus (SARS-COV-1) was the pathogen that caused the global severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, and the chain of infection from animals to humans was predicted to be similar to SARS. The epidemic may reappear, and emphasizes the importance of public health preparedness.
"Because of their contributions, our team of scientists can quickly determine the cause of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic," said Wang Xiaodong, one of the reviewers.
The scientific committee composed of 23 outstanding scientists is the core of the award judging.
“We use the standards of scientific research to conduct evaluations, with the utmost earnestness and caution.” said Zhang Maozhong, the rotating chairman of the scientific committee, drawing on the selection mechanism of famous scientific awards such as the Nobel Prize, Turing Prize, and Fields Prize. Nomination invitation system and international peer review system.
The standardized and rigorous review process has enabled the young future science award to win the recognition of the international scientific community.
Deng Feng, the donor of the Material Science Award, said in an interview with reporters that Professor Lu Yuming and Professor Xu Chenyang have both won the Future Science Award.
Since then, these two scientists have respectively won considerable world-class awards-the Scientific Breakthrough Award and the Cole Algebra Award. "This shows that the winners we selected can stand the test and are also walking in other world awards. front."
In the previous five years, a total of 20 winners were selected for the Future Science Award, and they have been widely recognized in the fields of science and society, including Shi Yigong, Yuan Longping, Shao Feng, Xue Qikun, Wang Yifang, Peng Shige, etc.
Reporter Zhu Songmei