2024 Future Science Prize Winners Announced Deng Hongkui, Zhang Tao, Li Yadong, and Sun Binyong

TapTechNews August 16th news, the Future Science Prize Committee announced the list of winners for 2024 today, with Deng Hongkui, Zhang Tao, Li Yadong, and Sun Binyong winning awards.

Deng Hongkui won the Life Science Prize for his outstanding work in pioneering the use of chemical methods to reprogram somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells and changing the fate and state of cells.

Deng Hongkui, born in 1963 in Beijing, is a Boya Chair Professor at Peking University and a leading scientist at Changping Laboratory. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and then did postdoctoral research at New York University.

Zhang Tao and Li Yadong won the Material Science Prize for their pioneering contributions to the development and application of single-atom catalysis.

Zhang Tao, born in 1963 in Shaanxi, China, obtained his Ph.D. from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1989. He is now a researcher at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li Yadong, born in 1964 in Anhui, China, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998. He is now a professor at Tsinghua University.

Sun Binyong won the Mathematics and Computer Science Prize for his outstanding contributions in the theory of Lie group representations.

Sun Binyong, born in 1976 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China, obtained his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2004. He has worked at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences for many years and is now a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics, Zhejiang University.

TapTechNews note: The Future Science Prize was established in 2016 and jointly initiated by a group of scientists and entrepreneurs. The Future Science Prize focuses on original basic scientific research and rewards scientists (regardless of nationality) who have made outstanding scientific achievements in mainland China (including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan regions).

The winning work must meet the following conditions simultaneously:

(1) Have a huge international impact;

(2) Be original, of long-term importance, or have withstood the test of time;

(3) Be mainly completed in mainland Chi na (including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan regions). The nationality of the completer is not limited.

The Future Science Prize currently sets up three major awards: the Life Science Prize, the Material Science Prize, and the Mathematics and Computer Science Prize, and the individual prize is about 1 million US dollars (equivalent to about 7.2 million Chinese yuan).