2018未来科学大奖揭晓 三位化学家获“中国版诺奖”

China’s Future Science Prize, one of the country’s most prestigious non-governmental science awards, presented awards on Sunday to the 2018 winners in the areas of life science, physical science, and mathematics and computer science.

Renowned agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, China’s “Father of Hybrid Rice*,” in collaboration* with Zhang Qifa and Li Jiayang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), shared The Life Science Prize for their pioneering work in breeding new rice varieties with high-yield and superior quality.

“There is no limit to scientific research, and I still have a dream — which is hybrid rice going global and covering the whole world,” Yuan said in a video address at the award ceremony in Beijing.

Ma Dawei from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry at CAS, Feng Xiaoming from Sichuan University, and Zhou Qilin from Nankai University received The Physical Science Prize for creative contributions to the invention of new catalysts* and reactions.

Touted as “China’s Nobel Prize,” as both are privately funded, the Future Science Prize was instituted by a group of entrepreneurs and scientists in 2016.

(SD-Agencies)