Twenty-six Inventions Win Elite PrizeAltogether 26 Chinese inventions were granted the Elite Prize for Young Inventors Sundday at the Shanghai Jiaotong University in East China.The first prize inventions are a software named "Starwolf Mail Express 3.0", a three-person joint product with 80 percent functions of the Microsoft Outlook Express, including receiving and sending e-mails and reading on-line news, and a chess game software. All the four inventors are students at the Weiyu Senior High School in Shanghai. Among the 153 inventions nominated for the prize, four won the second prize, seven won the third prize and another 26 got the incentive award. The Elite Prize for Young Inventors was set up in 1996 as proposed by Chenning Yang, a Chinese-American physicist and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. |
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