Chapter 286: Medal for Meritorious Service to Humanity
The development of science is in full swing, and the earth civilization is like a young man with infinite vitality, and is in the youthful years of vigorous development!
All achievements, all contributions, endlessly!
But soon, a problem that plagued Zhou Chen appeared, that is, the talent problem. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Exactly, the lack of top talent!
After all, the earth civilization is only a civilization that has been out of the home planet for less than two hundred years, and there are still some forced elements during this period, and the population has not exceeded 20 billion until now.
Even if the earth's civilization does a good job in terms of the reserve of scientific and technological talents, even according to the proportion of 30% of scientists, the population of the earth's civilization with independent scientific research capabilities is only 6 billion, which seems to be a lot at first glance, but in the vast world of knowledge, it is still insufficient.
The technology tree of the third-level civilization is a huge "giant tree", every scientist is its leaves, and only when these leaves work together for photosynthesis can this big tree grow healthily.
However, it is not enough for a large tree to have leaves, it must also have a tall trunk and branches that begin to fork at the top, as well as a well-developed root system rooted in fertile soil.
For the current earth civilization, there is no shortage of leaves, what is lacking is the key trunk that can become the body of a big tree!
Only when the trunk is strong can it carry more leaves!
In the final analysis, the problem of talent is still a problem of population, and only a certain population can produce a certain talent, but this is still undemanding! No matter how high the literacy of a civilization is, it is only slightly more likely that there will be top scientists than other civilizations, but it cannot be said that everyone is a scientist!
An ordinary scientist can master the theoretical knowledge of the discipline and make certain innovations, but with the continuous development of the civilization science and technology tree, the subdivision of disciplines is becoming more and more detailed, and many times a scientist may not be able to master the entire content of a discipline branch in his lifetime, let alone master the entire discipline, or even the interdisciplinary between several disciplines!
However, just like a precision instrument, if this precision instrument wants to work successfully and accurately, it must be made up of all the parts together, and now the parts are available, and the work is no problem, but to transform and upgrade this precision instrument, it is necessary for a person who has mastered several disciplines to carry out overall planning!
With the progress of human science, it is becoming more and more difficult to reappear scientists like Newton and Einstein who have made outstanding contributions! It's not that the wisdom of today's people can't reach their level, in fact, with the continuous development of life sciences and the in-depth use of chain databases, scientists who can be compared to Newton and Einstein have abounded.
But the problem is that the scientific world they face has become different, and it is difficult to make earth-shattering contributions to mastering one subject, they need to master several disciplines at the same time, and only by standing at the peak of the science and technology tree can they make various arrangements as a whole! Not only the branches, but if possible, the appearance of a figure capable of becoming the trunk of the tree is incomparable.
So although Zhou Chen and they are anxious, there is nothing they can do, and they can't reach it if they want to hurry! Measures to encourage childbearing are already being done, and the cultivation of young talents is also being done, and there is no other policy option for a while.
In the year 196 of the new calendar, the third year after leaving Tianyuan IV, the Supreme Council of Earth Civilization decided to establish the "Human Merit Medal" through discussion, establishing that this is the highest award in human society, and it is specially awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of mankind.
The establishment of this award is a huge impact on the entire civilization!
It is like a spring breeze, which has stimulated the curiosity and pursuit of countless people at once! Those who feel that there is no hope of winning the award naturally quietly act as spectators, waiting for the announcement of the award, and some people who feel that they can fight hard seem to be inspired and begin to work hard!
This is a medal of merit for human merit, and the gold content is enough to shine in the annals of history!
The award is divided into science prizes and social prizes, the Central Academy of Sciences and the central government are responsible for selecting candidates, and finally confirmed by the Supreme Council, the awards are evaluated every ten years, in line with the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, only eight places are recommended for each selection, and one science prize and one social prize are finally determined, and there can be byes.
The first batch of the Medal of Merit for Human Purposes was awarded to 14 people for the first time.
They have made outstanding contributions to the cause of civilization.
Zhou Chen deserves to be on the list of winners, not only because his knowledge has made outstanding contributions to the science of civilization, but also because his imaginary geometry has now become an important tool for human beings to understand the cutting-edge physical world! is also because he also led mankind to avoid the danger of civilization extinction, so Zhou Chen alone won the Meritorious Service Medal for his contributions to both the Science Award and the Social Award, it can be said that Zhou Chen won this medal, and no one can object.
In addition to Zhou Chen, although Cao Jiangfeng, the president of the Central Academy of Sciences, has not made much achievements in science, the scientific team led by him is the key force for the earth's civilization to grow from weak to strong.
In addition, Cai Xiaoxi and Yang Xi overcame the shackles of life sciences and made outstanding contributions to the reproduction of mankind, and also won the Meritorious Service Medal.
Then there are Ye Yanzhe, Yin Xi, Gustav, Abraham, etc., who have also contributed to the corresponding fields and have also won medals!
A total of fourteen people won this award, of course, it cannot cover all the people who have made contributions, such as Xing Bin, Zhuang Xiaohe, Jessica, etc., they have also made contributions in their respective fields, but they have not reached the level of receiving the Human Merit Medal, and there is one exception to this, that is, Jiang Cheng!
As a rookie in the field of materials science, Jiang Cheng is just in his early thirties this year, and he is at a young and promising age, and he has been awarded the Medal of Meritorious Service for Humanity for his discovery of special materials that can circumvent quantum radar!
This is an accident for many people, because the name Jiangcheng, they are too unfamiliar, far less than the veterans of the scientific community Xing Bin, Zhuang Xiaohe and others, at least Zhuang Xiaohe and the large-scale particle collider project they presided over was vigorous back then, and it was still a successful large-scale antimatter maker!
Even a scientist like him, who revolutionized energy utilization in one fell swoop, failed to receive the Medal of Merit for Human Achievement, so how could Jiang Cheng be eligible for it?
It's no wonder that they questioned it, it was really because Jiang Cheng's reputation was not strong enough, and what he researched was not used in the first place.
When the Supreme Council announced everyone's reasons for winning the award and evaluation, people suddenly realized that the contribution made by Jiang Cheng was actually to enable the earth civilization to avoid the detection of quantum radar, and the evaluation defined Jiang Cheng's achievement as "a talisman that makes the earth civilization move towards a fourth-level civilization".
At this moment, people woke up, it turned out that it was not unreasonable for the Supreme Council to award the Human Meritorious Service Medal to Jiang Cheng, if his achievement could really protect the human race and advance to the fourth level of civilization, then it would not be a problem to give him the Meritorious Medal at all!
Even Xing Bin, Zhuang Xiaohe, Jessica and others, who failed to win the award, then posted a congratulatory speech congratulating Jiang Cheng on winning the award under their personal accounts, and sincerely stated that their contributions were indeed inferior to Jiang Cheng, and there was no problem with Jiang Cheng's award.