2020 Tan Kah Kee Science Award and Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award Announced

The picture shows the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the press conference site.

Xinhuanet, Beijing, August 28 (Wang Ying) The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a press conference on the afternoon of August 28 to announce the 2020 Tan Kah Kee Science Award winners and Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award winners. Five projects including "Experimental Discovery of Pentaquark" won the Tan Kah Kee Science Award, and 6 others including Peking University professor Guan Qi'an won the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award.

The Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation was established in 2003 and funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Bank of China. The foundation established the Tan Kah Kee Science Award to reward major original scientific and technological achievements made in China recently. In 2010, the foundation added the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award to reward young scientific and technological talents under the age of 40 who have independently made important original scientific and technological achievements in China. Both awards highlight "original scientific and technological achievements" and encourage scientists to engage in basic scientific research.

The reporter learned that the Tan Kah Kee Science Award and the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award are selected every two years. Relying on the evaluation organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, six awards are set up respectively, including the Mathematical Science Award, the Chemical Science Award, the Life Science Award, the Earth Science Award, the Information Technology Science Award and the Technology Science Award. The selection of the 2020 Tan Kah Kee Science Award and the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award was launched on January 1, 2019. After recommend, effective candidate project review, domestic and foreign peer expert communication review, formal candidate project review, and council final review, 5 Tan Kah Kee Science Award winning projects (information technology science award vacancy) and 6 Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award winners were finally produced.

At the press conference, Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation, congratulated the winning scientists. He pointed out that the Tan Kah Kee Science Award is committed to rewarding outstanding scientific and technological achievements, motivating outstanding scientific and technological talents, and promoting international-level strategic The emergence of scientific and technological talents, scientific and technological leaders, young scientific and technological talents and high-level innovation teams promotes the enhancement of the international academic influence of my country's scientific and technological circles, to play an important role in the construction of an innovative country and a world scientific and technological power. Today, with the vigorous rise of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the country has raised the importance of basic research to an unprecedented height. The Tan Kah Kee Science Award will strive to play the role of stimulating the original innovation vitality of basic research, and guide and encourage scientific and technological workers to be original. Work hard and focus on enhancing independent innovation capabilities.

Zheng Guoyu, Vice President of the Bank of China, Gao Hongjun, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Director of the Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation, Wang Dujin, Director of the Work Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Secretary-General of the Tan Kah Kee Science Award Foundation, and representatives of the 2020 Tan Kah Kee Science Award-winning scientists attended the press conference.

 

Attached: List of winners

The Tan Kah Kee Science Award has five winning projects:

The award-winning project of the Tan Kah Kee Prize for Mathematical Sciences is "Experimental Discovery of Pentaquark States", and the main completion of the project is Professor Gao Yuan Ning of Peking University;

The award-winning project of the Tan Kah Kee Chemical Science Award is "New Superior Double Nitrogen-Oxygen Ligands and Efficient Asymmetric Catalysis", and the main completion of the project is Professor Feng Xiaoming of Sichuan University;

The award-winning project of the Tan Kah Kee Life Science Award is "Research on the Structure and Molecular Mechanism of Spliceosomes". The main completion of the project is Professor Shi Yigong of Tsinghua University and West Lake University;

The award-winning project of the Tan Kah Kee Earth Science Award is "Destruction of the North China Craton", which is mainly completed by Zhu Rixiang, a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;

The award-winning project of the Tan Kah Kee Technical Science Award is "Mechanism of Particles in Friction and Mechanism of Super-slip", and the main completion of the project is Professor Luo Jianbin of Tsinghua University.

2020 Annual Tan Kah Kee Information Technology Science Award Vacancy.

 

There are 6 winners of the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award:

The winner of the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award for Mathematical Science is Professor Guan Qi'an of Peking University, and the award-winning achievement is "Conjecture of Strong Opening in Multiple Complex Changes and the Solution of Related Problems";

Chen Jiageng Youth Science Award for Chemical Science was awarded by Professor Chen Xing of Peking University, and the award-winning achievement was "Chemical labeling and analysis of glycans";

The winner of the Life Science Award of the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award is researcher Wang Kejian of the China Rice Research Institute. The award-winning achievement is "Using genome editing technology to establish a hybrid rice apomictic reproduction system";

The winner of the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award for Earth Science is Professor Tang Chaosheng of Nanjing University. The award-winning achievement is "the catastrophic process and response measures of soil engineering properties under the action of extreme arid climate";

The winner of the Information Technology Science Award of the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award is Professor Xiao Yunfeng of Peking University, and the award-winning achievement is "New Principles and Applications of Microcavity Optical Information Devices";

The winner of the Tan Kah Kee Youth Science Award for Technical Science is Sun Mingyue, a researcher at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The award-winning achievement is "Homogenization and Forming Technology for Large Forgings".

 

 

Source | Xinhua