The World's Top Scientists Forum opens tomorrow: 68 Nobel Laureates and 28 Chinese academicians participate

The Paper's reporter Zhang Jing

On October 31, at the news media briefing of the 4th World Top Scientists Forum, the paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned that the 4th World Top Scientists Forum will be held from November 1 to 3 in the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Including 68 Nobel Laureates, 131 of the world's top scientific award winners, 28 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 top young scientists at home and abroad, representatives of future "little scientists", as well as guest representatives from international organizations, top international universities and scientific research institutions, well-known business circles and hundreds of other guests from all walks of life will participate, spanning 23 countries, more than 100 cities and 14 time zones around the world.

The forum was co-sponsored by the World Association of Top Scientists and the China Association for Science and Technology, and co-guided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Focusing on the annual theme of "Open Science: Building an Open Innovation Ecosystem", the guests will carry out in-depth exchanges and wisdom collisions online and offline, face the common challenges and common problems facing mankind under the current global complex situation, and seek scientific solutions to open innovation.

For the first time, 26 top laureates, including 14 Nobel laureates, included Reinhard Genzel, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, who first discovered a black hole; Peter Agre, a global pioneer in the fight against malaria and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; tasuku Honjo, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, who pioneered PD-1 immunotherapy to treat cancer. Two female Nobel laureates in physics, the third female Nobel laureate in Nobel history and the 2018 Nobel Prize winner in physics who boosted the power of the laser by a thousand times the power of donna Strickland; and Carol Greider, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for deciphering one of the molecules of aging, Telomerase.

At the same time, the conference also brought together 9 Turing Award winners, including 1986 Turing Award winner John Hopcroft, who came to Shanghai to attend, Alfred Aho, the 2020 Turing Award winner who pioneered the computer programming language, David Patterson, the 2017 Turing Award winner who developed risc microprocessors, etc.; the first new invitation to "Energy Session" The Nobel Prize Winner of the Eni Prize, among which the 2018 Eni Prize winner Wang Zhonglin, who led the development of nanotechnology and nanoenergy, will attend the conference in Shanghai; Michael Shepard, a pioneer in cancer research in the United States and winner of the 2019 Lasker Medical Prize, also came to Shanghai from the United States to participate in the conference.

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