Three Foreign Scientists Received 2008 CAS International Science and Technology Cooperation Award

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) honored three foreign scientists Yuen-Ron Shen, Arima Akito, and Michel Che on Wednesday for their significant contributions to cooperation in science and technology between CAS and the international science community.

Yuen-Ron Shen, Arima Akito, Lu Yongxiang and Michel Che (from left to right)

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) honored three foreign scientists on Wednesday for their significant contributions to cooperation in science and technology between CAS and the international science community.
Lu Yongxiang, president of CAS conferred the "2008 CAS Award for International Scientific Cooperation" on Arima Akito, president of the Japan Science Foundation, Yuen-Ron Shen, professor of physics with the University of California at Berkeley, and Michel Che, chair professor of Universite Pierre et Marie Curie.
Arima, a two-time Nobel Prize nominee in 1984 and 1995 played significant role in promoting academic exchange between China and Japan. This world renowned theoretical physicist advanced the Interacting Boson Model Theory, which is still the basis of the nuclear structure theory.
Yuen-Ron Shen, member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is also a foreign member of CAS. He initiated the annual National Laser Physics Workshop in Qingdao in 1980. Shen's efforts had helped push forward Chinese research in optical physics and related disciplines.
Michel Che, former president of the International Association of Catalysis Societies, went in promoting exchanges between France and China since the early 1980s. He was the first foreign scientist to be appointed director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis in the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS in 2006.
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, the Institute of Physics and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of CAS, the three host institutes that cooperated with the award-winning scientists were also honored at the ceremony.
The CAS Award for International Scientific Cooperation was first introduced in 2007 to honor foreign scientists, engineers, and scientific research institutions, developing and managing organizations with distinguishing contributions to Chinese science and technology undertakings. For each year recipients of this honor for are less than 10 people.
Lothar Reh, professor of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Scott Douglas Rozelle, professor of Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, received the Friendship Award and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of China recently. The awards were conferred to the two scientists at the nomination of the CAS.