Award: Prize and Science

award: Photo Courtesy of Future Forum At this year's Future Science Prize award ceremony, China's first nongovernmental prize for innovative basic scientific research was awarded to four scientists who called on more significant basic scientific research on November 17, according to Global Times China. Funded by highly respected entrepreneur and investor donors who cherish the value of scientific development, the prize is awarded in three categories with a 1 million purse for each award - namely the Life Science Prize, Physical Science Prize, and Mathematics and Computer Science Prize. Photo IC Attendees pose for a photo at the Future Prize award ceremony in Beijing on November 17. This year's Physical Sciences Prize went to Wang Yifang, head of the Institute for High-Energy Physics and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Kam-Biu Luk, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, due to their discovery of a new type of neutrino oscillation. He also said that China is presently still running behind the US in basic scientific research. To look at the future, when China's GDP becomes number one in the world in 2035 or 2049, we should make great contributions to the areas of literature, arts and pure science, like our ancestors who have made contributions written in the history of mankind, Wang told the Global Times on Thursday. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.