World Laureates Forum Begins, Gathering Award-Winning Science Leaders in Shanghai
The China.org.cn website reported that the 4th World Laureates Forum was launched Nov. 1 in Shanghai, gathering more than 130 decorated scientists, including 68 Nobel Prize winners, to attend the three-day forum. Centering on the theme “Open science: Build an Open Innovation Ecosystem,” this year’s forum will host nearly 100 conferences and activities in 14 sections, covering a number of basic disciplines such as chemistry, physics, life science and mathematics. Michael Levitt, 2013 Nobel laureate in chemistry and vice chairman of World Laureates Association (WLA), published the initiative, which advocates open science and encourages actions in support of open science. The organizers also announced the establishment of the WLA Prize, which will be officially launched in 2022, with two individual awards each having a 10-million-yuan reward (about 1.56 million U.S. dollars).
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