Chapter 428: The Year of the Harvest
This achievement was also rated as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs in 2012 by Science magazine, saying that "if researchers at the Large Hadron Collider do not discover new particles beyond the standard model, then neutrino physics may
It is the future of particle physics, and the experimental results in Daya Bay may mark the moment when this field takes off."
It can be said that winning the first prize of the Natural Science Award is well deserved.
A research project on the structural biology of transmembrane transport proteins. This project is jointly recommended by Kowloon University and Shuimu University. The main completion person is Yan Ning.
In the past few years, Yan Ning has made a series of achievements in the field of structural biology research on membrane proteins, especially transmembrane transporters, including the landmark three-dimensional crystal structure of the human glucose transporter glut1; she has worked on ion channels
She has also made outstanding achievements in the field of research, contributing one of the main structures to the study of sodium ion channels; she also used the latest cryo-electron microscopy technology to analyze the high-resolution structure of the high-throughput calcium ion channel Ryr1.
Relying on her outstanding contributions in the field of biology, she was selected as an Outstanding Youth in 2011 and won the "Yangtze River Scholar Achievement Award" in 2015. As for the million-dollar bonus, it was donated by Yan Ning.
She established a scholarship in each of the School of Life Sciences of Shuimu University and the School of Life Sciences of Kowloon University.
It was only in November 2016 that the proof of the 'Standard Conjecture' achieved a unified consensus in the mathematical community, believing that Liu Yichen's team had indeed solved the 'Standard Conjecture', and this achievement became the largest mathematical achievement in the past half century.
It also means that the 'Riemann Hypothesis' has been officially overcome. Although the field of number theory still needs to solve the 'Riemann Hypothesis', at least it has been proved from the field of algebraic geometry that the 'Riemann Hypothesis' is true.
At the same time, it also represents that more than a thousand mathematical conjectures based on the establishment of the 'Riemann Hypothesis' have been officially upgraded from conjectures to theorems and axioms.
In fact, Kowloon University did not apply for a selection award for this project, but at the end of December, Kowloon University received a call from the National Science and Technology Awards Office, temporarily added it, and directly won the first prize in natural science.
Liu Yichen originally thought that he would have to obtain it at the next annual conference, but unexpectedly he got it in that year. One can imagine the influence of the 'standard conjecture' proof results.
This year's National Science and Technology Awards Conference is a harvest year for Kowloon University, and it is also a harvest year for Liu Yichen. After winning the first prize in natural science, Liu Yichen also won the first prize for the 'lithography machine research project' and 'microbial sewage treatment technology'.
The first prize of the National Progress Award, and the "Major Renovation Project of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider" also won the first prize of the Progress Award.
In addition, ‘Chinese patent medicine for myopia treatment’ also won the National Technology Invention Award!
It can be said that Liu Yichen won three major awards in one fell swoop, not to mention that in addition, the second prize Kowloon University also won multiple projects.
Amidst warm applause, the annual National Science Awards Conference came to an end, and each award winner was focused by the media and interviewed by reporters.
Liu Yichen is also unable to return to school for the time being. He still has to accept interviews from Renren Daily, People's Daily, Xinhuanet, Guangming Daily, Huaxia Science Daily, Science and Technology Daily and Youth Daily. As for his colleagues, he may stay in the capital to be interviewed by the media.
, be a guest on the show, or choose to go home directly from Beijing.
After all, it's summer vacation.
The interview with the Daily Daily was relatively simple. He worked directly with People's Daily, and then provided some photos, including photos from his research days and award-winning photos, and then answered some questions.
As for "Chinese Science Journal" and "Science and Technology Daily", they need to be more professional, such as introducing the birth of the 'standard conjecture', the mathematical community's research on it and the significance of solving it. For example, the research on 'microbial sewage treatment technology'
How to solve some of the problems encountered at that time, and make certain predictions about when the national sewage will be solved. The same is true for lithography machines. In recent months, the field of lithography machines has not been very beneficial to China. Three
The big giants have reached a tacit agreement to lower the price of high-end lithography machines, with the intention of suppressing China's lithography machines and putting the lithography machines into a dangerous situation of losing money on each one, thus strangling China's high-end lithography machines.
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It's a pity that they don't think of how great Huaxia's determination is in lithography machines, even if its annual market is actually very small, and its profit margin is also very limited. Liu Yichen and the others have done a good job, even if they have suffered losses for ten consecutive years, they will not hesitate
Prepare.
In fact, in the past twenty years, China has suffered too much in terms of lithography machines. No matter how small the market is and how limited the profit margin is, it has been threatened many times in the past with chokeholds or unreasonable price increases. China has suffered a lot.
I was so disgusted.
Even if you lose money now, at least you won't be disgusted. When the three giants are dead, you will naturally make money!
As for the 'Chinese patent medicine for the treatment of myopia', although it has only been used for a few months, its efficacy has been confirmed. There have been no sequelae or adverse reactions so far, and no recurrence case has been found so far.
When being interviewed by Youth Daily, Liu Yichen was the most relaxed. The two parties have had a friendly relationship for nearly ten years. Even though the interviewer was a young and beautiful reporter, Liu Yichen simply chose to be interviewed at home.
"Academician Liu, this year has been a bumper year for you. What makes you so productive?" The beautiful reporter named Su Li asked a question that stunned Liu Yichen.
Liu Yichen thought for a while, he couldn't cheat by relying on the system, so he pondered for a while and said: "In the field of mathematics, the age of 20 to 40 is the golden age for mathematicians. From the statistical data of past research results of mathematicians,
Analysis shows that the most important achievements of most mathematicians’ lives are born between the ages of 25 and 40.”
"Newton's greatest achievement in mathematics was calculus, probably when Newton was 40 years old; Leibniz's most outstanding mathematical achievement, calculus, was probably when he was 38 years old." Liu Yichen said, giving an example.
In fact, there was a lot of controversy in the past about who created calculus. And because Newton's main identity is a physicist and the founder of the classical mechanics system, people often ignore his genius in mathematics.
As for Leibniz, he was an all-rounder. He conducted research in mathematics, political science, law, ethics, theology, philosophy, history, linguistics and many other directions, and he also had more or less attainments.
But there is no doubt that Leibniz’s most prominent identity is that of a mathematician!
Later, people argued endlessly about this, and simply believed that the two men independently discovered calculus and were both the founders of calculus.
From this aspect, we can see that in the past, domestic experts believed that China always said "so-so" and "golden mean" should be criticized, but overseas would not be "so-so" and "golden mean". In fact, this view is not true.
Correct. Overseas, people are also "so-so" and "moderate".
"I am now 26 years old and will soon be 27. I am in the golden period of my life. It is normal to be highly productive." Liu Yichen explained.
Su Li asked again: "Judging from the list of winners of this year's National Science and Technology Awards, Kowloon University has surpassed Yanda and Shuimu to become the largest number of award-winning projects in China and the heaviest. What do you think is the reason?
Kowloon University has achieved such excellent results?”
"The first is funding. Kowloon University has the largest funding in the country. Sufficient funding allows scientists to dare to try and not be afraid of making mistakes. It also allows them to do scientific and technological research without having to think about salary and wages." Liu Yichen
He smiled and said: "Secondly, it is respect for academics and science. To be honest, I am not a qualified principal. I am not good at school management, but I know that I should maintain respect for academics and science."
"This kind of environment, or the formation of this kind of culture, can allow a university to truly settle down, have enough strength to move forward, and have enough vitality." Liu Yichen is still very satisfied with this.
He has money, he has plenty of money, and he is willing to spend money.
In the latest approved 2017 Kowloon University budget, Kowloon University’s budget is as high as 50 billion yuan. As for the 2016 budget balance, it is only 1.8 billion yuan. This budget alone exceeds Shuimu, Yanda, and Zhejiang University combined.
Although their total school funding exceeds 50 billion yuan, not even 40 billion yuan is actually spent. The rest will be surplus funds transferred to the next year.
Kowloon University is different. Basically, most of the funds listed in the budget will be spent in that year.
And the effect is also very obvious.
Although many things can be solved without spending so much money, the speed will be relatively slow. If you continue to spend money, many things will be easy to achieve results.
This feeling of being a rich man made Liu Yichen feel quite happy.
The beautiful reporter asked a few more questions and then ended the interview.
Feng Lin personally delivered it to the door before returning.
"When will we go back?" Feng Lin asked, her matter had almost been settled.
"Let's take the flight next night. I have to go somewhere tomorrow morning." Liu Yichen pondered for a moment and calculated his itinerary.
Feng Lin nodded. She was also very busy at the end of the year. Before New Year's Day, she participated in Southeast TV's New Year's Eve "Thinking. Enjoy 2017". Then after New Year's Day, she came to the capital again, attending both academic conferences and TV shows.
Programs and lectures are also held.
After the 2014 Crimea and 2016 American elections, Feng Linke became famous and became a leader in the study of international political and economic relations. Her books became best-sellers. For a scholar who studies international political and economic relations
, which is very rare.
Last year, Feng Lin's total domestic book sales reached 3 million. As for overseas book sales, it was even more, making Feng Lin's royalties income in 2016 hit a new high.
Chapter completed!