Two Chinese Scientists Win One-million HK-dollar AwardChinese neurologist Zhang Xiangtong and paleontologist Wu Rukang won a 1 million Hong Kong- dollar science and technology achievement award Thursday, given by the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation for their outstanding achievements in scientific research.The foundation also presented another 57 scientists with science and technology advancement awards for their important discoveries in the natural sciences. State Councilor Ismail Amat said at the awards ceremony that China will award much more money to scientists who make major breakthroughs in frontier sciences or help bring great benefits to the country for industrialization of major scientific discoveries. He said the government has been encouraging social organizations, ventures and businessmen to establish foundations to reward scientists, in a bid to push ahead the country's scientific development. Zhang Xiangtong, born in 1907, is one of the most famous neurologist in China. He had been head of Shanghai Brain Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wu Rukang, born in 1917, is China's most important paleontologist. He has been deputy head of the CAS'Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. An official with Ministry of Science and Technology announced today that a minor planet was named after the Ho Leung Ho Lee recently by the International Minor Planet Nomenclature Committee. The minor planet No.4431 was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory attached to the CAS in 1978. The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation was established in Hong Kong in 1994. A total of 370 scientists have won the award so far. |
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