Two Scientists Win Second State Supreme Science and Technology Award

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Two Scientists Win Second State Supreme Science and Technology Award

Two Chinese scientists Friday morning gained the country's top scientific awards and 5 million yuan (602,400 U.S. dollars) each.

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Computer scientist Wang Xuan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and physicist Huang Kun, who is also an academician of CAS, respectively won 5 million yuan ((602,400 U.S. dollars) State Supreme Science and Technology Award of the Year 2001.

China started to launch the prize in 2000. Wu Wenjun, a Chinese mathematician, and Yuan Longping, a leading hybrid-rice expert, got the first annual awards.

China allocated monetary awards to a number of scientists and technicians for their great contributions to the country's national economy and social progress, according to a circular issued by China's State Council last year.

This is China's second State Supreme Science and Technology Award. The award will be granted to no more than two outstanding scientists annually.

Small Soldier? Big Winner!

"Huang Scattering", "Huang Equations", "Huang-Phys factor", these are familiar terms in the world of physics, and the word "Huang" in each term stands for one person.

That person is Huang Kun, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a well-known Chinese physicist.

"The Dynamic Theory of Crystal Lattices", a monograph unanimously considered a "bible" in solid state physics, was also written by Huang, at the age of 32, in collaboration with Max Born,a German Nobel laureate in physics.

As important as he is, Huang is still very modest. He even claims he has "only a limited amount of knowledge".

"Some people are born to be marshals, some are born to be soldiers. I belong to the latter group, just a small soldier. To be a solider means you will have to fight at the front."

On Friday President Jiang Zemin awarded the "small soldier" the highest honour possible, the State Supreme Science and Technology Award 2001. Besides the honor, Huang also receives five million yuan. (In Detail)

By People's Daily Online

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