6 scientists were awarded the Shaw Run Award in 2022

Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, September 29 (Reporter Zhang Yashi) The 2022 Shaw Run Awards Ceremony was held on the 29th in the form of online live broadcast. Six scientists have won three awards: astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematics science, each with a prize of 1.2 million US dollars.

Li Jiachao, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said through a video speech that the work of the six winners of the Shaw Run Awards this year is full of inspiration, showing the results of the lifelong pursuit of science and social progress. example.

Li Jiachao said that the national "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" clearly proposed to support Hong Kong's construction of an international innovation technology center. In order to achieve this vision, Hong Kong will work with other cities in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area to expand the scale of Hong Kong's outstanding scientific research platform. Hong Kong will establish a healthy founding ecosystem to attract global experts and cultivate local talents.

The average scholar was awarded to two scholars in 2022 Shaw Run's Astronomy Award, respectively, Professor Rongxiu, Department of Astronomical and theoretical Physics, Sweden's Longde University Astronomy and Theoretical Physics Department, Lorentella, and Michael Pei Pei Peng Riman, in recognition of their contribution to the measurement of celestial bodies throughout their lives.

Life Science and Medicine Awards average to Futai Pharmaceutical Company San Diego Research Department Senior Vice President Paul Negrezki and Professor Michael Wales, a professor at the Department of Internal Sciences at the University of Aiwa. Biochemical and functional defects are caused, and new drugs are identified and developed to repair these defects, which can treat most patients.

The average award of the Mathematical Science Award was awarded to the Professor of Mathematics of Princeton University Noga Alon and the Professor of Mathematical Logic Lecture at the University of Oxford at the University of Oxford. Especially the interaction of algebraic geometry, topology and computer science.

The Shaw Run was founded in November 2002 and was managed and implemented by the Shaw Run Foundation Foundation. It was awarded once a year.

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