The 2021 Zhejiang Science and Technology Awards awarded these two academicians to win prizes

Lu Wenlin, editor -in -chief of Zhejiang News Client column, editor Huang Huixian reporter He Dongjian designed Wang Ruji

On July 11, at the province's science and technology innovation conference, the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Award was awarded in 2021. Among them, Yang Wei, a professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics of Zhejiang University, and Shi Yigong, President of Xihu University, won the Zhejiang Science and Technology Award.

The science and technology award is the highest award of Zhejiang Science and Technology. It has awarded Zhejiang's personal and teams with great breakthroughs in the forefront of contemporary science and technology or in the development of science and technology. The science and technology award is 3 million yuan per bonus.

From theory to application, from science to philosophy, from material to spiritual, he has been committed to studying "force", and has made outstanding contributions in the depth and breadth of solid mechanics theory. He was the principal of Zhejiang University and the "head of the National Natural Science Foundation of China." He continued to seek new growth points of science.

At the age of 35, he became the youngest lifelong professor of the Department of Molecular Biology of Princeton University at the time; at the age of 40, he refused to return to China to teach for ten million US dollars scientific research expenses; 51 years old, and founded West Lake University all his life ... The construction of the Talent Highland of Zhejiang has made great contributions.

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