Chapter 908 They are different, and the awards are proud to be awarded to them
Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun won the Wolf Mathematics Award. The news that the Wolf Physics Award caused a sensation in the international mathematics and physics community within just half an hour and was transmitted back to China at an extremely fast speed.
For the media industry, the names "Qin Ke" and "Ning Qingyun" now mean huge traffic, but domestic media do not dare to report groundless news casually. The two young academicians are very low-key and do not easily speak up online without accepting interviews. They usually only appear on the campus of Qingmu University, making news that is particularly difficult to find. Therefore, the media naturally report crazy about winning big prizes like this, and even learn from self-media to use various title party behaviors, just to increase click-through rates and traffic.
"The two youngest academicians in our country have won these two world-class awards again!"
"Academician Qin and Academician Ning create miracles again!"
"Shock! Unbelievable! They set this new record!"
"Still on the hot search! "Academician and his wife won four awards in a row"!"
"Excellence is not necessary, the grand prize will prove itself! Five Wolf Grand Prize medals fall into the Xia Kingdom!"
——The title finally shamelessly counts all Edward Witten’s medals.
As the media said, the entry #Academician Qin and Ning won four top prizes again# without any surprise, and the word "explosive" was followed to show how popular this hot search is.
However, although the responses of netizens in Xia Guo were enthusiastic, they were not particularly enthusiastic. At least, the responses of Qin Ke and the other two won the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Peace Prize at the same time were much more dull. Most of them just left behind praise and comments such as [666] [Proud! Satisfied! Excited] [The greatest academician couple in our country deserves all the prizes] and did not pay much attention to this incident after comments.
After all, netizens subconsciously think that it is very natural for Qin Kening Qingyun to win the grand prize, and the Wolf Award is not famous in Xia Guo. In the eyes of most ordinary netizens, its popularity is not as good as the National Highest Science and Technology Award - this is also one of the reasons why the Wolf Foundation intends to set up an awards ceremony in Xia Guo to expand its influence.
The responses of Xia Guo’s academic and scientific research circles were completely opposite to those of ordinary netizens. For experts and scholars who know what the Wolf Award means, this news is like a bombshell, which shocked them for a long time. Even Qin Ke and his wife won both Nobel Prizes before, they did not shock them so much.
After all, before Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, William Lawrence Prague, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in physics, was only 25 years old when he won the prize. Malala Yousuf Zai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner, won the prize at the age of 17. Of course, the Nobel Peace Prize has been ruined. It is a few who have won the Peace Prize by relying on "real practical things" like Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun who really rely on solving the desertification problem and the food crisis.
Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who were 22 years old at the time, won the Nobel Prize in Physics and Peace Prizes, which is not much different from these records.
Even when Qin Ke and his wife won the Wolf Agricultural Award, they did not cause much response. After all, all agricultural awards are considered unpopular awards for "Shaoliba people" internationally and have little influence.
But the Wolf Mathematics Award is different from the Wolf Physics Award. They are both top prizes with great influence and are often only awarded to old scientists over 60 years old. They are veritable "Old Master Awards". One of the few exceptions is over 40 years old.
For example, Andrew Wiles, who proved Fermat's Grand Theorem, won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics at the age of 42, Mitchell Fegenbaum, a guru of chaos theory, and Stephen William Hawking, a guru of cosmology and black hole theory, won the Wolf Prize in Physics at the age of 42 and 46 respectively.
Like Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, he won two of the most famous Wolf Awards at once, and also lowered his age record from 42 to 24 years old. How can he not shock and envy the scholars, professors and experts?
Especially Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun has won the Grand Slam at the top physics award, and is only one Abel Prize away from the top mathematics award!
The most important thing is that they are not yet 25 years old!
Some people quickly adjusted their mentality: Anla, some people were born to break the rules, such as the Dirac Medal, who had been lying on the rules before and did not award them to the Fields Medal winner and the Nobel Prize winner. Later, they did not break the rules they set and awarded them to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun?
There are also a small number of narrow-minded people who are so jealous that they can't even eat and sleep well. They are eager for any grand prize that they cannot get for the rest of their lives, but they are the two "little kids" who are both young and think they are small, but they keep getting it like they don't have to spend money. Oh, in fact, these grand prizes do not need to spend money, and they can get bonuses. How can they not make their mentality unbalanced?
But no matter what the mentality of the domestic peers are, they cannot have any impact on such a prize result. Moreover, the news that the two won two Wolf Awards has just fermented for only two days. On January 22, the World Food Award Foundation announced the latest list of winners of the "World Food Award".
"After rigorous and serious selection, our foundation has decided to award this year's 'World Food Award' to Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingyun from Xia Guoqingmu University for their great contributions to the cultivation of perfect desert sweet potatoes and the establishment of computational seed science, which has made great contributions to mankind's solution to desertification, famine problems, and improving plant breeding efficiency!"
As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation in the world again.
The World Food Prize is the highest international honor in agriculture, slightly better than the Wolf Agricultural Prize. This award was established by Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Bologge in 1986 and is awarded once a year to reward those who "make outstanding contributions to humans with nutrient-rich and abundant food" with a prize of US$250,000.
Originally, this award was only influential in the agriculture and botany circles, but it was too good to release the winner list. It happened that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were famous all over the world because of the two Wolf Awards, and immediately the fame of the World Food Award Foundation and the "World Food Award" also increased to a new level.
Therefore, many people complained about the World Food Award Foundation's "risk traffic".
Yes, even the top prize in agriculture is just a icing on the cake for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun at this time, and it will increase its fame because of the two of them.
Of course, the World Food Award Foundation denied it, repeatedly saying that it was just a coincidence, but many award selection agencies did join in the fun. After January 23, they issued statements saying that they would present the awards to Academician Qin Ke and Academician Ning Qingyun of Xia Guo.
Some of these awards are indeed quite famous, such as the "Kyoto Award Medal", "Prince Asturias Award", "Shaw Award", "Kovile Nanoscience Award", etc., but more are second- and third-rate awards that are not even above the level.
These awards are basically established by small countries and small foundations, and some are set up by private companies themselves. The prize money ranges from a pitiful few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars, and their fame and influence are very small.
These second- and third-rate awards successfully gained traffic and increased their fame, appearing on many large international media, which further intensified the momentum of "giving awards" to Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, causing Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to "be awarded" more than 100 awards and medals in January.
The news about the two winning awards almost never stopped in the next week, so some people joked: "Others are proud of winning awards, but Academician Qin and his wife are different, so the awards are proud of being awarded to them."
Just as the media and the Internet were talking about this "award craze" on this "award craze", Qin Ke suddenly posted a scarf, expressing his gratitude to all countries and all fields for their recognition of him and his wife Ning Qingyun, but suggested that more awards be awarded to other scientists who need positive motivation. A single branch is not spring, but a hundred flowers blooming is full of spring. The development of world scientific and technological civilization cannot be promoted by individuals, and countless outstanding scientists need to work together.
At the end of the scarf, Qin Ke even said that in the first half of this year, he would only accept the two Wolf Awards and the World Food Awards first awarded to the couple on January 22 and before. The remaining awards were awarded one after another after January 23, and the medals awarded to him and Ning Qingyun were all refused regardless of their size.
As soon as this scarf was released, it quickly spread throughout the world. The news about #Academician Qin declined hundreds of awards# once dominated the headlines of major media, making those second- and third-rate "prizes" quite a bit bad, but it attracted countless likes.
[Academician Qin, who is amazing, rejected hundreds of awards in one go! There are several awards I have heard of, and the grand prizes with a long history.]
[The world is sober and indifferent to fame and fortune, and is worthy of being my favorite male god!]
[That's a big thumbs up, such as the "Kyoto Award" and the "Shaw Run" Award, it's fine, but those small prizes that can't even be checked for, are you embarrassed to award them to Academician Ning, who is a member of Academician Qin? This behavior of taking advantage of traffic is so disgusting. Now Academician Qin's decision is simply satisfying.]
[I am so envious of Academician Qin... He refused the award and was ruthless, and I was looking for the award. As a doctoral dog, even if I was given the most inconspicuous prize, I would have been happy for a few days... At least one thousand dollars can improve the food for a month.]
[On the upper floor, you can do it. You can sign the air tickets yourself to receive the prize. The round-trip air tickets are more than one thousand dollars, and you will get the prizes.]
There was a lot of joy on the Internet. Even the scholars who were originally jealous of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun had to sigh that Qin Ke's decision was really amazing.
At least in this era when many scholars rely on foreign pheasant universities to get diplomas and education, and are complacent about winning some unknown "great awards" abroad, even famous big prizes like Qin Ke have rejected, such as the famous "Kyoto Award", "Prince Asturias Award", and "Rody Shaw Award", which is simply unique.
After Qin Ke's scarf was released, this crazy "award craze" finally subsided.
Those small awards became laughing stocks, but the management agencies of the several major awards showed excellent means of handling emergencies. For example, the management agency of the "Shaw Prize", the Shaw Prize Foundation Co., Ltd. quickly issued a response statement, expressing its understanding and support of the decisions of the two young academicians and humorously said:
"We will take care of the wishes of the two academicians for this year's Mathematics Science Award and also award them to other mathematicians. However, considering that Liu Bei visited Zhuge Kongming three times in ancient times, our Run Run Shaw Prize Foundation is also willing to continue to try to award the Mathematics Science Award to Academician Qin and Academician Ning next year and the following year. After all, according to the award rules, they are the most preferred candidates for this award, as the most outstanding mathematical masters in the world who have achieved the most outstanding mathematical research achievements and are still active in the field of mathematics."
Inamori Consortium, the management agency of the "Kyoto Award", also expressed savor and said that in the next "Advanced Technology Award", these two academicians will still be given priority in the "Basic Science Award" selection to commend them for their outstanding contributions to the development of human science and civilization.
Such a statement has brought applause.
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During this craze, Qin Ke and his group still walked in low-key through various remote mountain villages on the grassland, patrolling various student aid projects.
He had discussed the scarf with Ning Qingyun in advance. Now the two of them have no shortage of grand prizes at all, so why should they stand at the forefront? Even if it is the World Food Award, Qin Ke only accepted the world-class grand prize in the system task "Please continue to obtain the honor of the top of science", otherwise he would just reject it.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now, except for the Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize, Abel Prize, Chen Shengshen Prize, Crafford Prize, awarded the rest of his prizes to him, it is considered to be a fame that he has won him.
After posting the scarf, Qin Ke no longer cared about these chores and focused on the current school aid project inspection activities. In his spare time, in addition to coaxing children to enjoy family joy, he used it to study the topic of "applying string theory to control the 'random decay events' of radioactive elements" with Ning Qingyun, Edward Witten, and Lao Tao.
By the way, the day after entering the prairie, the group met Huo Baoyan, the secretary-general who happened to be doing the year-end inspection here, as well as her assistant, Qin Ke's high school classmate Wu Zhu.
The reunion was filled with joy. Huo Baoyan's injury had completely recovered and she was in great spirits. Seeing Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the two "little bosses" who had saved her life and changed her fate, her eyes were a little red.
Wu Zhu was even more excited. Under Qin Ke's persuasion, he gave up returning to Shicun Primary School to teach and joined the Qingning Scholarship Foundation. He discovered the value of his work and gained love with Xu Jialing. Now the two have met their parents and the marriage is on the agenda. How could Wu Zhu not be grateful to Qin Ke?
After the greetings, Qin Ke simply invited Huo Baoyan and Wu Zhu to visit each other, just to learn more about the operation of the foundation in the past year.
So the inspection team grew stronger again.
The group of people was naturally warmly welcomed by the villagers in the various funded mountain villages, and the children's simple smiles also made everyone feel the significance and value of helping students.
However, Qin Ke also discovered some problems. At present, the Qingning Scholarship Foundation has only solved the problems of "from nothing to something" and "from decline to continuation" in mountain primary schools. However, the situation where the teaching staff is weak and the educational resources lag behind big cities cannot be changed for the time being.
The gap between urban and rural areas cannot be ignored, let alone remote mountain villages with worse conditions.
If you want to truly solve this problem, you may have to wait in the future to really develop a rural teacher robot equipped with extremely advanced AI so that the teaching resources of rural primary schools are relatively close to those of urban primary schools.
Of course, urbanization is a trend of development in the era, and more and more rural villagers will move to cities, but Qin Ke has always insisted that as long as there are children in remote mountain villages to study, the Qingning Scholarship Foundation will need to continue to implement the Scholarship Project.
Just to see the simple smiles on the faces of children in the mountain village, just to have a different future that can change one's destiny by knowledge.
Other problems are that there are fewer crop varieties that are resistant to high temperature and drought, resistant to severe cold and snow, and the planting area in remote mountainous areas is limited.
Qin Ke told Huo Baoyan and Wu Zhu: "Sister Huo, Zhuzi, this summer and winter are not easy to make, and ordinary crops will basically reduce their yields or even survive. You must remind the villagers in various remote mountainous areas to take disaster prevention measures in advance and prepare disaster prevention materials. In addition, the lime plant cultivation laboratory has successfully developed a batch of new crop seeds that are resistant to high temperature, drought and resistant to severe cold and snow in the past two years. They should be handed over to Dayuan Seed Industry for seed production and sale. You contact Dayuan Seed Industry and then purchase them in large quantities to the villagers in various remote mountainous villages to plant."
The economy of remote mountainous areas is under relatively fragile pressure, and the villagers' lives that have just improved cannot withstand the blow of severe crop yield reductions or even lack of harvest throughout the year. We must provide key care and support.
"Yes, we understand, and we will start implementing it today!"
Huo Baoyan and Wu Zhu had no doubts about Qin Ke's judgment, and acted quickly that day...
Chapter completed!