The Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled the winners of the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2016 on January 16, 2017.
Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, congratulates Professor Earl Ward Plummer (left) and Professor Deliang Chen (right) on winning the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2016. (Image by CAS)
They are Professor Earl Ward Plummer of Louisiana State University, US; Professor Shavkat Salikhov of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan; and Professor Deliang Chen of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
The winners’ three CAS research institutes — the Institute of Physics, the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research — were also honored at the ceremony.
Background — 10th Year of AISC
In 2007, CAS launched its Award for International Scientific Cooperation to honor distinguished foreign experts for their outstanding contributions in science, technology and management.
The awards were also intended to further promote international cooperation and strengthen innovation in science and technology as part of the effort to build CAS into a first-class R&D institution and expand its influence in the world’s science and technology fields.
In recent years, CAS has seen its innovation capacity steadily improve and its international influence increasingly expand. As a result, international exchanges at the academy now take the form of communications and interactions with foreign research institutions, a significant step forward from CAS’s merely learning from its more advanced foreign counterparts as it had done in the past.
The award winners are selected through a process in which Chinese colleagues of the nominees make recommendations and then jury panel members vote by open ballot. As the judges are domestically renowned scientists in various fields at CAS, they are able to ensure that winners have reached the highest research levels and are well recognized internationally. Moreover, the judges have a good understanding of the contributions the winners have made in cooperation with CAS, especially with regard to key technologies and fields, large-scale scientific facilities and talent cultivation.
Since 2007, a total of 28 foreign experts have won the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Through further recommendation, 19 of them have been granted the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China, and 17 have received the PRC Friendship Award.
Source: CAS