Time flies by and it’s November.
For ordinary people, they can continue to do whatever they have to do, but for the vast majority of scientific researchers in China, they are about to face an important event.
National Science and Technology Awards Conference.
The National Science and Technology Award is very important to any domestic scholar, especially those who are interested in reaching a higher level. For example, if they want to become an academician, they often need to have the experience of winning the National Science and Technology Award.
In addition, being able to win the award will also be of great help in applying for funding in the future.
In the absence of world-class awards, the National Science and Technology Award is the honor that domestic scholars are chasing after.
Therefore, many people are eyeing every award.
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November 2, outside the Great Hall of the People.
Scholars from all over the country stood outside the door, divided into several queues, and queued up to enter the Great Hall.
In this place, no matter you are the richest man in the country or an academic giant, you have to queue up.
While queuing up, familiar scholars were greeting each other.
"Hey, Lao Chen, long time no see, long time no see. The chelation chemistry of carbon chains and metals you did before was very good. It seems that I will definitely win a natural science award this year."
"Old Shen, aren't you thinking that the chiral metal project you guys are working on is a sure thing?"
"Hahaha, you can get it, you can get it."
…
Li Mu was also in the queue at this time.
He came with researchers from the Institute of High Energy, who were also greeting other scholars they knew.
As for Li Mu, although he didn't know anyone else, most others knew him, so he was called out from time to time by the scholars next to him, all of whom wanted to get to know him.
The academic circle is also a vanity fair, and no circle in the world is so pure.
In this way, following the team, they walked into the Great Hall step by step.
After passing the security check and entering the auditorium, the space becomes spacious.
"Hey, Li Mu."
Not long after taking a few steps, a familiar voice suddenly sounded. Li Mu turned around and was surprised to find that it was Professor Wu Mengyuan.
Next to Wu Mengyuan were people from the School of Physics of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
"Professor Wu, Dean Qi, you are here too."
He waved his hand and walked up with Academician Yue Lang beside him.
Although they have been staying at the Institute of High Energy recently, their identities are still from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
"Haha, of course we have to come, maybe we will win the prize?" Qi Tao laughed, "Especially Xiao Mu, you might be very promising this time."
Wu Mengyuan also smiled slightly: "You can look forward to it."
As a result, Academician Yue Lang next to him said abruptly: "There's no need to look forward to it. I think it's already a done deal."
Academician Yue Lang's words stunned Wu Mengyuan and the others. It was a sure thing?
"Do you have any explanation?" Qi Tao asked quickly.
As the dean of the School of Physics, he is most looking forward to someone from his school winning the award.
"Some time ago, Hu Yunping, the director of the Award Office, personally visited Li Mu at the Institute of High Energy. Don't you think this hint is not obvious enough?" Yue Lang said with a smile.
"This actually happened?"
Wu Mengyuan and Qi Tao were both stunned, and turned to look at Li Mu, wanting to ask him why he hadn't announced good news to the college before, but then they thought about it...
Forget it, get used to it, get used to it.
Li Mu has always been like this.
Patting Li Mu on the shoulder, Qi Tao said with a smile: "Then it will be up to you to win a prize for our School of Physics."
Li Mu didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment: "I haven't even written these horoscopes yet. How can this kind of thing be so certain?"
"Yep."
Several academicians and professors from the School of Physics nodded perfunctorily, all expressing disbelief.
"Okay, let's go in."
Yue Lang glanced around at this time, and when he saw more and more people coming in, he said hello.
They said no more and walked into the meeting hall together.
Under the guidance of the staff, they came to their respective seats and sat down, and soon, the conference officially began.
The first is the opening process of the meeting. The boss-level figure first gave a speech to commend the overall situation of the past year.
In addition, one point was mentioned in particular in the speech.
"...We must provide strong support to outstanding talents, especially young outstanding talents. I believe many people have noticed that we have a young scholar named Li Mu who has performed very well in the past two years. He is down-to-earth and practical. He has made many achievements that are of great significance to the scientific community locally, and has also had a great influence internationally. I also hope that all our scholars can learn from such scholars and engage in scientific research seriously..."
At such a conference, Li Mu was stunned for a moment when the big boss praised him by name. He felt flattered in his heart.
Then there were many eyes around him looking at him, obviously full of envy.
This is definitely a great honor.
Especially the people from Shanghai Jiao Tong University were even more excited at this time and wanted to stand up and shout that Li Mu was one of ours.
There are many scholars from Shanghai Jiao Tong University invited here, whether they are from the School of Physics, the School of Mathematics, or other schools, and they all feel honored at this moment.
Of course, the boss just skipped this sentence, and after a while, the award ceremony officially began.
The first award was the country's highest science and technology award. Two veteran scientists who had made major achievements during the founding of New China in the last century came to the stage to receive the award.
For these two old scientists, everyone present gave warm applause to express their respect.
Without the hard work of the older generation of scientists, there would not be the living environment they live in today, let alone the people who are present to do scientific research.
There is no one who does not admire him.
After the awarding of these two veteran scientists was completed, the next step was to award the National Natural Science Award.
The National Natural Science Award is awarded to individuals who have elucidated natural phenomena, characteristics and laws and made major scientific discoveries in basic research and applied basic research. It is generally divided into two categories: first prize and second prize. In addition, for those who have made particularly significant achievements Special prizes can be awarded for the achievements of scientific discoveries.
Since the establishment of the Natural Science Award, no special prize has been awarded. Natural science achievements that can win the special prize can only be obtained by producing results like Einstein's theory of relativity.
For now, basically no one would think about getting the special prize. It would be good to get the second prize.
As for the difficulty of obtaining the first prize, the selection conditions are very strict. As long as all the applied projects fail to meet the standards, it is not impossible to directly become vacant.
So when the host announced the start of selecting the Natural Science Award, the scholars present began to wonder, would there be any vacancies this year?
But it turned out there was no vacancy.
"The first project to win the first prize in Natural Science this year is - nano-confined catalysis!"
"The winner is the team of Academicians Bao and Xin from Tailian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences!"
"Their results enable us to provide a constrained environment for the catalytic reaction system at the nanoscale, thereby achieving precise control of catalytic performance, making the catalysis more effective and efficient, thereby helping us to treat coal, natural gas, etc. Efficient and clean conversion of non-petroleum resources.”
"Please invite the recipient to come up to the stage to receive the award!"
Amidst bursts of applause, Academician Bao and Xin walked onto the stage with a smile on their faces, and then the boss personally presented the award and shook hands for a group photo.
Then Academician Bao walked away amidst applause.
Then comes the second one.
“The second project to win the first prize of the National Natural Science Award is the creation and application of ordered mesoporous polymers and carbon materials!”
“The winner is the team of Academician Zhao Yuandong from Hudan University!”
Amidst waves of applause again, Academician Zhao Yuandong walked onto the stage.
Following the same process as Academician Bao before him, he also took photos with the big guys and then stepped down amidst applause.
At this point, everyone present thought that the awarding of the first prize was over.
Although according to the awarding rules, there is no limit to the number of projects that can win the first prize.
But judging from the situation in previous years, apart from the vacancies, either one or two awards will be awarded, and it is basically impossible to have more.
So the second prize should be awarded next.
For a time, many scholars began to look forward to it.
The first prize is too strict to even think about, and the number of second prizes awarded is usually very large. For example, more than 40 were awarded in 2019. Maybe they will have a chance?
However, just when all the scholars were gearing up, the host announced again: "Next, the third National Natural Science First Prize will be awarded."
Everyone in the audience was stunned immediately.
The third?
"The project that won the third first prize is the proof of the hail conjecture."
"The winner is Li Mu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University."
"The Hail Conjecture is one of the most famous problems in mathematics. If you give a random number, after three times plus one and dividing by two, it will eventually return to the number '1'. So can this rule work? Does it apply to all positive integers? Li Mu has completely put an end to this problem through his proof."
"Please invite the winner, Li Mu, to come on stage to receive the award!"
(End of chapter)
