The Nobel Prizes of 2020 are both a year of controversy and a year of surprise! Part of the controversy is that the next two US presidential candidates are actually on the list of Nobel Peace Prize candidates, so that many people put forward different challenges to the fairness and authority of the Nobel Prize selection.
The surprise was partly because of another historic breakthrough: not only did it make the sixth and seventh women to win prizes for chemical research since 1901, but it was also the first time in history that a purely female team won the Nobel Prize in Science.
All along, the Nobel Prize has been a male-dominated field, partly because more men dominate in scientific research. But the fact that these two younger women won the award together also means that more women will provoke the other half of scientific research in the future!
So Pernilla Wittung Stafsheden of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, who selected them to be Nobel laureates in chemistry, said with great pleasure that the two female winners were "a historic moment."
The two distinguished scientists, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, also delivered their acceptance speeches: I hope this will inspire more new generations of women to pursue scientific research.
This voice is also similar to that of the American astronomer Andrea Thompson, who had previously conceptualized the study of black holes. Gaiz Andrea Ghez echoed the remarks. In a way, as the stage of the highest praise in the field of science, its recognition has also changed the way people think about women. Obviously, in the sacred temple of the field of science, there should be no discrimination on the color of the skin, there should be no gender difference, there should be no national border restrictions, should not let individual people with hearts take advantage of it, and should not be tainted by the smoke miasma of the world, and there is still a long way for mankind around the world to go.
The Nobel Prize Organizing Committee also gave a reason: mainly considering their pioneering work in gene editing, and when they won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, especially because the two of them jointly developed CRISPR-Cas9, using this tool, scientists can easily and accurately complete the "cutting" of DNA and realize the re-editing and recombination of the genetic code of animals, plants and microorganisms.
Emmanuelle Charpentier, a scientist from France who specializes in the field of biology, originally studied a common bacterium when she discovered a method that can "disarm" the virus by cutting off part of the virus's DNA, and published her research in 2011. After that, she became more interested in the field, and then teamed up with Professor Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, on the other side of the Atlantic. Inventions have created the most convenient "editing" method for gene editing.
In this regard, as one of the authoritative peers, James Crick of the Sex Chromosome Biology Laboratory of the Francis Crick Institute Professor Turner James Turner lamented: Thanks to their discovery, genetic engineering experiments that previously took us years to complete can be completed in a few weeks.
Medical authority Robert · Dean Robert Lechler, who also agrees with their work, comments that the practice of genome editing is "revolutionizing biomedical research and will also be an important weapon for patients to focus on future health and develop new drugs with great potential." It was thanks to their breakthrough work that we began to understand the role of genes in biology and disease, and laid the foundation for the development of drugs that target genetic conditions.
Because of the physiological differences, in some disciplines, women will indeed be more difficult than men, and because of secular habits, marriage and children are objectively tied up in various families, which also makes them more or less burdened on the road of scientific research than men. So it is true that on the road of scientific research, the number and proportion of men are far more than women, which is also a basic objective fact in all parts of the world.
But women, not without advantages, especially in analytical chemistry and physical chemistry, women are more calm than men, more patient and patient, for the sensitivity and ability to capture data details, may be better than men.
But in reality, many of their work results are not recognized as they should be, or are covered up by another male role, and this frustration will also make many female researchers feel frustrated and disappointed. But now, the selection of the three women of the Nobel Prize this time is undoubtedly a very positive signal to them.
Or, in the near future, more female companions will join the sacred path of human scientific research. Of course, in addition to abandoning gender discrimination, we should also abandon more unfavorable factors that restrict the development of science, advocate global cooperation that does not mind national borders, does not mind gender, does not pay attention to skin color, and shares scientific research forces together to promote human progress and development. This is the spirit of the Nobel Prize that we expect.