Since the National Highest Science and Technology Award was officially established in 2000, 29 scientists have won the award. Each winner will receive a bonus of 5 million yuan
2017 National Highest Science and Technology Award Winners: Wang Zeshan, Hou Yunde
Wang Zeshan won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1993 , and won the first prize of the National Technology Invention Award twice in 1996 and 2017.
Hou Yunde is the main founder of China’s molecular virology, modern medical biotechnology industry and modern infectious disease prevention and control technology system.
Winners of the 2016 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Zhao Zhongxian Tu Youyou
Zhao Zhongxian is one of the founders of high-temperature superconductivity research in my country. He was one of the first few scholars in the world to realize the significance of Bernoz and Muller's "possible existence of superconductivity up to 35K in Ba-La-Cu-O" (later awarded the Nobel Prize). In addition, he also discovered a series of iron-based high-temperature superconductors above 50K and set a record of 55K.
Tu Youyou’s scientific contribution was the discovery of artemisinin. She was inspired by ancient Chinese medicine books, changed the traditional extraction process of artemisia annua, and created a method of low-temperature extraction of the anti-malarial active parts of artemisinin, which became artemisinin. A key breakthrough was discovered.
Winner of the 2015 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Vacancy
Winner of the 2014 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Yu Min
Yu Min is a famous Nuclear physicist, one of the outstanding leaders in my country's nuclear weapons research and high-tech development of national defense. He has played an important role in advocating and promoting high-tech national defense projects, especially my country's inertial confinement fusion research. He is a pioneer in theoretical research in the field of inertial confinement fusion and X-ray lasers in my country.
Winner of the 2013 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Cheng Kaijia and Zhang Cunhao
Academician Cheng Kaijia is a famous physicist in my country. He is the founder and leader of my country's nuclear test science and technology. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of nuclear weapons and high-tech national defense.
Academician Zhang Cunhao is a famous physical chemist in my country, the founder of high-energy chemical lasers in my country, and one of the founders of molecular reaction dynamics.
Winners of the 2012 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Zheng Zhemin and Wang Xiaomo
Academician Wang Xiaomo is a famous radar expert in my country and a pioneer and founder of the modern early warning aircraft industry. He presided over the research on low-altitude radar technology and successfully developed my country's first medium- and low-altitude radar. He also won world reputation for domestic radars in the international radar equipment competition.
Academician Zheng Zhemin is an internationally renowned mechanic, one of the founders and pioneers of explosive mechanics in my country, and one of the organizers and leaders of the construction and development of the Chinese mechanics discipline. He clarified the mechanism and model laws of explosive forming, solved the processing problems of important rocket components, and developed a new branch of mechanics - explosive mechanics.
Winner of the 2011 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Wu Liangyong and Xie Jialin
Academician Wu Liangyong is a famous architect, urban and rural planner and educator in my country. He is the founder of human settlement environment science. He is also one of the founders of architectural education in New China.
Academician Xie Jialin is an internationally renowned physicist and the pioneer and founder of my country’s particle accelerator industry. He has repeatedly put forward important suggestions and guidance on medium and long-term development plans, and has played a major role in promoting the development of the accelerator field in my country.
Winner of the 2010 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Wang Zhenyi Shi Changxu
Academician Wang Zhenyi, an expert in hematology, has made great contributions to medical practice and theory during his more than 60 years of medical career. He has made significant contributions to innovation. He successfully realized a new clinical treatment strategy for leukemia by transforming malignant cells into benign cells, laying the clinical foundation for induced differentiation theory; established the "Shanghai Protocol" for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia, and clarified the Its genetic basis and molecular mechanism have set a successful example of combining basic and clinical aspects; it has established a clinical application research system on thrombosis and hemostasis in my country.
Academician Shi Changxu has been committed to materials scientific research and engineering applications, and has taken the lead in the research and development of materials such as high-temperature alloys and new alloy steels in China. His achievements have brought my country's aviation engine turbine blades to a new level from forging to casting, and from solid to hollow, becoming the second country after the United States to independently develop this key material technology. So far, it has been widely used in my country's fighter engines. .
Winner of the 2009 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Sun Jiadong Gu Chaohao
Academician Sun Jiadong has made breakthroughs in basic satellite technology, satellite return technology, geostationary orbit satellite launch and fixed-point technology, and navigation It has made significant contributions to satellite networking technology and basic deep space exploration technology; it has made systematic and creative achievements and contributions to the creation and development of my country's overall artificial satellite technology, satellite aerospace engineering management technology and deep space exploration technology.
Gu Chaohao, a famous mathematician, has made important contributions to the three most active branches of core mathematics today: differential geometry, partial differential equations and mathematical physics and their intersection.
Winners of the 2008 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Xu Guangxian and Wang Zhongcheng
Academician Xu Guangxian is a famous chemist and educator in my country. Based on his profound understanding of the basic laws of rare earth chemical bonds, coordination chemistry and material structure, he discovered that the rare earth solvent extraction system has the basic law of "constant mixing extraction ratio", and established a universal cascade extraction system in the 1970s. theory. This theory has been widely used in my country's rare earth separation industry.
Wang Zhongcheng is the first generation of neurosurgery experts trained in New China and one of the pioneers of neurosurgery in my country. During his half-century medical career, he made innovative contributions to the development and growth of my country's neurosurgery and its global presence.
Winner of the 2007 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Wu Zhengyi and Min Enze
Academician Wu Zhengyi is a famous botanist who has been engaged in botany research and teaching for seventy years. A well-known scholar in taxonomy, plant systematics, floristic geography, plant diversity conservation and plant resource research.
Academician Min Enze is mainly engaged in research in the field of petroleum refining catalyst manufacturing technology. He is the founder of the applied science of petroleum refining catalysis in my country, a pioneer in independent innovation of petrochemical technology, a pioneer of green chemistry, and a leader in petrochemical industry at home and abroad. enjoys a high reputation in the industry.
Winner of the 2006 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Li Zhensheng
Academician Li Zhensheng is mainly engaged in research on wheat genetics and distant hybrid breeding, and has made remarkable scientific achievements. At the same time, he has carried out Research on agricultural development strategies.
Winners of the 2005 National Highest Science and Technology Award: Wu Mengchao and Ye Duzheng
Wu Mengchao, liver surgeon, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He created the key theoretical and technical systems of liver surgery, opened up new areas of basic and clinical research on liver cancer, established the world's largest liver disease research and diagnosis and treatment center, and trained a large number of high-level professionals.