Tu Youyoucheng wins the first Nobel Prize in science Chinese medicine has once again become a health hotspot

　　At 11:30 local time on the 5th in Stockholm, Sweden, which is 5:30 pm Beijing time, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced at the local Karolinska Institute. Three scientists, including Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, and the other two being Irish medical researcher William Campbell and Japanese scientist Satoshi Omura, were awarded to three scientists for discovering groundbreaking treatments for malaria and new treatments for roundworm infections.

　　Chinese scientist Tu Youyou was born in Ningbo on December 30, 1930. She has been engaged in research on traditional Chinese medicine and combined Chinese and Western medicine for many years. Her outstanding contribution is the discovery of artemisinin, a drug for the treatment of malaria, which has saved millions of lives in developing countries around the world. , In September 2011, Tu Youyou won the Lasker Prize, known as the Nobel Prize in the United States. This was the first time that a Chinese scientist won the Lasker Prize. It is also the highest world-class award that the Chinese biomedical community has received so far. The Lasker Prize is also known as the bellwether of the Nobel Prize.

　　The Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901 according to the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, using the interest from his inheritance fund. Currently, Hanbel established five categories of awards in his will: Physiology or Medicine Prize, Physics Prize, Chemistry Prize, Literature Prize and Peace Prize, as well as the Swedish Bank Economics Prize.

　　According to official news from the Nobel Prize, after the Physiology or Medicine Prize is announced, the Physics Prize winner will be announced on October 6th, local time, the Chemistry Prize winner will be announced on October 7th, the Peace Prize winner will be announced on October 9th, and the Economics Prize winner will be announced on the afternoon of October 12th. As usual in previous years, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced at another time. There are reports that the Literature Prize may be announced on the second Thursday of October, that is, October 8.

　　It is worth noting that although the Nobel Prize winners are announced in October, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony is scheduled to be held in December every year. At that time, each Nobel laureate will receive a certificate, a gold medal and a bonus of 8 million Swedish krona, which is about 1 million US dollars. So, who are the popular candidates for each award?

　　Among the various "predictions" for Nobel Prize winners, the most watched is the annual "Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Award". This is an academic award based on quantitative data analysis. It is classified into four fields: physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, and economics. It analyzes and predicts the most influential scientists based on the citation frequency of their published results.

　　Since the selection began in 2002, the "Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates" have successfully "predicted" 37 Nobel Prize winners and are widely considered to be the most influential Nobel Prize prediction list. However, the winner of this award does not necessarily receive the Nobel Prize that year.

　　Among this year's Citation Laureates, scientists working on the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 are considered the strongest contenders for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In the field of economics, Richard Brendel and John List are also widely watched candidates.

　　In addition, there is a Chinese scientist on the predicted list of this year's physics prize winners - Professor Wang Zhonglin from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research result is the invention of nanogenerators. Chinese scientist Qian Yongjian, who won the award in 2008, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry that same year.