Time flies by and it's November.

For ordinary people, they will continue to do what they need to do, but for the vast majority of scientific research scholars in China, they are about to usher in an important event.

National Science and Technology Award Conference.

The National Science and Technology Award is very important for any scholar in China, especially those who are interested in rushing to a higher level, such as wanting to become an academician, often need to have the experience of winning the National Science and Technology Award.

In addition, winning the award will also be of great help to apply for funding in the future.

In the absence of world-class awards, the National Science and Technology Award is an honor that domestic scholars are competing for.

So, a lot of people are staring at every award.

……

Outside the Great Hall of the People on November 2.

Scholars from all over the country stood outside the door, divided into several queues, and lined up in turn to enter the Great Hall.

In this place, whether you are the richest man in the country or an academic giant, you have to queue up.

In the process of queuing, familiar scholars are also greeting each other.

"Yo, Lao Chen, long time no see, long time no see, the chelation chemistry of carbon chain and metal that you did before is very good, it seems that you are going to win a natural science award this year."

"Old Shen, you didn't bury me in the chiral metal project that you did, so it's called a stable one, right?"

"Hahaha, you can take it, you can take it."

……

Li Mu was also in the queue at this time.

He came with the researchers of the Institute of High Energy, and the researchers of the Institute of High Energy were also greeting other scholars they knew at this time.

As for Li Mu, although he didn't know others, most of the others knew him, so he was shouted by the scholars next to him from time to time, all of whom wanted to know him.

The academic world is also Vanity Fair, and no circle in the world is so pure.

In this way, following the procession, they walked into the Great Hall step by step.

After passing through the security check and entering the interior of the General Assembly Hall, the space becomes larger.

"Hey, Li Mu."

Not long after walking a few steps, a familiar voice suddenly sounded, Li Mu turned his head to look, and was surprised to find that it was Professor Wu Mengyuan.

And Wu Mengyuan is also next to them from the School of Physics of Shanghai Jiaotong University.

"Professor Wu, Dean Qi, you are here too."

He waved his hand and walked up with Academician Yue Lang beside him.

Although they have been staying in the high-energy institute recently, they are still from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

"Hehe, of course we're coming, maybe we'll win?" Qi Tao laughed, "Especially Xiao Mu, you may be very promising this time." ”

Wu Mengyuan also smiled slightly: "You can look forward to it." ”

As a result, Academician Yue Lang next to him said coldly: "Don't look forward to it, I think it's already a certainty." ”

Academician Yue Lang's words made Wu Mengyuan and them all stunned, and they were all sure?

"What's the point?" Qi Tao hurriedly asked.

As the dean of the School of Physics, he is most looking forward to someone in his school winning the award.

"Some time ago, Hu Yunping, the director of the award office, personally went to the high-energy institute to find Li Mu, do you think this implies that it is not obvious enough?" Yue Lang said with a smile.

"How did this happen?"

Wu Mengyuan and Qi Tao were both stunned, turned their heads to look at Li Mu, and wanted to ask him why he hadn't reported good news to the academy before, but they just thought about it......

Forget it, get used to it, get used to it.

Li Mu has always been like this.

Patting Li Mu on the shoulder, Qi Tao said with a smile: "Then we will look at you and win an award for our School of Physics." ”

Li Mu couldn't cry or laugh for a while: "These eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, how can this kind of thing be so certain." ”

"Yes, yes."

Several academicians and professors of the School of Physics nodded perfunctorily, all of them writing disbelief.

"Alright, let's go inside."

Yue Lang glanced around at this time, and when he saw more and more people coming in, he greeted him.

They said no more, but went into the hall together.

Under the guidance of the staff, they came to their respective seats and sat down, and soon, the conference officially began.

The first was the opening process of the conference, where bigwig-level figures first gave speeches to commend the overall situation of the past year.

In addition to this, one point was mentioned in the speech.

“…… I believe that many people have noticed that we have produced a young scholar named Li Mu, who has performed very well in the past two years, is down-to-earth, and has made many achievements of great significance to the scientific community, which has also caused great influence in the whole world, and I hope that all our scholars can learn from such scholars and seriously engage in scientific research ......."

At such a conference, the praise by the big guy made Li Mu stunned at first, and he suddenly felt flattered in his heart.

Then there were a lot of eyes around him that looked at him, obviously full of envy.

That's a great honor.

Especially the people from Shanghai Jiaotong University, they were even more excited at this time, and they couldn't wait to stand up and shout that Li Mu is our person.

There are many scholars invited here from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whether it is the School of Physics, the School of Mathematics, or other schools, and they all feel honored at this moment.

Of course, the big guy skipped this sentence, and after a while, the award ceremony officially began.

First of all, the highest national science and technology award was awarded, and two veteran scientists who had made major achievements in the founding of Xinhua in the last century came to the stage to receive the award.

For these two veteran scientists, everyone present gave warm applause to express their respect.

If it weren't for the hard work of the older generation of scientists, there would be no living environment for them today, let alone letting these people present do scientific research.

There is no one who is not admired.

After the award of these two old scientists is completed, the next step is to enter the awarding of the National Natural Science Award.

The State Natural Science Award is awarded to individuals who have elucidated natural phenomena, characteristics and laws in basic research and applied basic research, and made major scientific discoveries.

Since its establishment, no grand prize has ever been awarded, and the natural science achievements that can win the grand prize can probably only be obtained by making achievements like Einstein's theory of relativity.

For now, basically no one will think about getting the grand prize, and it is good to be able to get the second prize.

As for the difficulty of obtaining the first prize, it is also very difficult, and the selection conditions are very strict, as long as all the declared projects do not meet the standards, it is not impossible to directly vacate.

So when the host announced the start of the selection of natural science prizes, the scholars present began to wonder, will there be vacancies this year?

However, it turned out that there were no vacancies.

"The first project to win the first prize of the Natural Science Award this year is - nano-confined catalysis!"

"The winner is the team of academician Bao Hexin from the Tailian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences!"

"Their results enable us to provide a constrained environment for the catalytic reaction system at the nanoscale, so as to achieve precise control of catalytic performance, make catalytic action more effective and efficient, and help us efficiently and cleanly convert non-oil resources such as coal and natural gas."

"The prize recipient will come to the stage to receive the award!"

In bursts of applause, Academician Bao and Xin walked onto the stage with a smile on their faces, and then the big man personally presented the award and shook hands for a group photo.

Then, in the applause, Academician Bao walked down.

Then came the second place.

"The second project that won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award is the creation and application of ordered mesoporous polymers and carbon materials!"

"The winner is the team of academician Zhao Yuandong from Hudan University!"

In bursts of applause again, this academician Zhao Yuandong stepped onto the stage.

With the same process as Academician Bao before, he also took a photo with the bigwigs, and then stepped down amid applause.

At this point, everyone present thought that the awarding of the first prize had ended.

Although according to the awarding rules, there is no provision for a limited number of projects to win the first prize.

However, according to the situation in previous years, in addition to the vacancies, either one or two will be awarded, and basically no more.

So the second prize should be awarded next.

For a while, many scholars began to look forward to it.

The first prize is too strict to think, and the number of second prizes awarded is generally very large, like more than 40 in 2019, maybe they will have a chance?

However, just when the scholars were rubbing their fists, the host announced again: "Next, the third national natural science first prize will be awarded." ”

Everyone in the audience was stunned.

The third?

"The third first prize was awarded for the project "Proof of the Hail Conjecture."

"The winner is, Li Mu from Shanghai Jiaotong University."

"The hail conjecture is one of the most famous problems in mathematics, given that a random number, after a cyclic change of triple plus one and division by two, will eventually return to the number '1', can this rule be fulfilled on all positive integers? Through his proof, Li Mu completely put an end to this problem. ”

"Please award winner Li Mu to come to the stage to accept the award!"

(End of chapter)