It was announced at the National Science and Technology Awards Conference held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 3 that 25 achievements and scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) won 2020 National Science and Technology Awards.

In the State Natural Science Awards, CAS, the first accomplishment unit, won first prize of the 2020 State Natural Science Awards for the scientific accomplishment of “Nano-confined Catalysis” led by academician Bao Xinhe of CAS’s Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), while 14 other achievements won second prizes.

The special project achievement of CAS’s Aerospace Information Research Institute was awarded first prize at the State Technology Invention Awards, and five achievements were awarded second prizes.

Three achievements were awarded the second prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award.

Professor Richard G. Strom of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, a long-term collaborator with CAS’s National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), won the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award.

Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences