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Chapter 232 Three First Prizes
As the host made the announcement, everyone in the audience was stunned.

Surprisingly...both projects really won awards?!

The selection committee actually made such a decision?
The National Science and Technology Awards Conference has not held an evaluation for three years. Now that it is being evaluated again, the requirements are naturally more stringent, not to mention the first prize in the Natural Science Award. As an award second only to the highest science and technology award in terms of gold content, most of the scientists present dare not even think about winning this award.

In order to win this award, in addition to strength, luck is also needed.

As for being awarded the title twice consecutively in one conference, that is unheard of and unseen before.

As a result, they met today.

Amid the uproar, everyone's eyes turned to Xiao Yi.

At this moment, Xiao Yi's expression was a little caught off guard.

Well, although he had anticipated before coming that he would win the first prize in natural sciences, he, like most of the people present, thought that he would simply win one of the two major problems of the millennium.

But at the moment, it seems that this selection committee is still very courageous - of course, there is no guarantee that it does not have the support of senior leaders above.

"Well, now please invite the joint winner of these two major projects, Professor Xiao Yi, to come on stage to receive the award!"

The BGM changed to a well-known classic award song.

The people in the audience finally recovered from their shock and applauded enthusiastically.

Although the award result is surprising, these two achievements are indeed eligible for the first prize in natural sciences.

After all, as the top problems in mathematics, these two results definitely require the highest IQ.

People have to admit it!
At this time, Xiao Yi also shrugged his shoulders, then stood up, buttoned up his suit, left his seat and walked towards the podium.

Sitting next to him, the people in the Science Island Laboratory were clapping with all their might, watching Xiao Yi's back as he walked onto the stage.

"Oh my god, God Xiao is really awesome!"

Liu Xiaodong exclaimed while clapping.

"Do you even need to tell me that?"

Tang Chunming next to him also said this.

The others were not willing to be left behind and praised Director Xiao: "Who else has won two first prizes in natural sciences?!"

“Making history!”

"Fuck that's awesome!"

"And our brother Xiao has won three first prizes now, but don't forget that he also won one three years ago."

"..."

For a moment, it also attracted the attention of other people around.

I don’t know whether I’m envious or jealous.

Of course, probably all of them do.

And at the front, Xiao Yi had already arrived at the podium.

This time, it was still the old leader who personally presented him the award.

"Young man, you did a great job."

The old leader patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder with a smile, and asked, "Science Island Laboratory, have you encountered any difficulties recently?"

Undoubtedly, this sentence means that if the Science Island Laboratory needs help, just ask.

But after Xiao Yi thought about it, he really didn't know what the difficulty was.

We have the money and the people, and we are also expanding.

The policy support towards the Science Island Laboratory is sufficient not only in the whole province but also in the whole country.

So he simply said, "Not yet, how about I ask you when I have it?"

Maybe when the nuclear fusion reactor is built, there will be a demand for it?
The old leader suddenly burst into laughter.

If it were someone else, no one would dare to make such a request to him.

However, he didn't say anything and just said, "No problem, you can ask me anytime."

"Also, I heard that you are researching a very important technology recently. How is the research going now?"

When Xiao Yi heard his old leader mention this matter, he could also feel the importance he attached to it.

Yes, after all, this is nuclear fusion.

He thought for a moment and said, "It's too early to draw a conclusion, but I can say that we are very close to succeeding in the first step."

The old leader nodded with satisfaction: "That's good, that's good."

Perhaps he suddenly remembered that it was time for the awards ceremony, so the old leader took two certificates from the side and handed them to Xiao Yi personally.

Then Xiao Yi, holding a book in each hand, faced the camera and took a group photo.
Everyone in the audience was a little curious for a moment, wondering what they had just talked about.

However, the awards had already been presented and Xiao Yi was about to step down, so people applauded again.
Amidst the applause, Xiao Yi returned to his seat and several people nearby immediately surrounded him.

"Brother Xiao is awesome!"

"Brother Xiao, can I touch your certificate?"

"I want it too! Let me have some!"

Seeing the excited expressions of several people, Xiao Yi shook his head with a smile, but did not say anything. He simply handed both certificates to them and asked them to look through them.

He had seen this thing three years ago anyway, so it didn't matter.
Afterwards, the award ceremony continued.

Following the announcement by the host, another first prize in natural sciences was awarded.

This project is called Computational Prediction of Topological Electronic Materials. It was completed by the Institute of Physics, and the leader of the winning team is Pang Cheng, the director of the Institute of Physics.

The Institute of Physics is not far from the Science Island Laboratory. When Xiao Yi heard the news, he smiled and applauded Pang Cheng.

Pang Cheng was also very surprised at this time. After noticing Xiao Yi, he nodded at him.

Speaking of which, his achievement is also related to Xiao Yi to a certain extent.

At the beginning, Xiao Yi completed a project in his team, which mainly studied FeSe/SrTiO3 single-layer superconductors. In this project, Xiao Yi provided certain assistance in computational materials science, which ultimately directly helped them complete a major step forward in their project.

It was precisely because of Xiao Yi's help in this regard that Pang Cheng's project was indirectly successful.

At first, he wanted Xiao Yi to join the research group, but at that time, Xiao Yi was attracting attention from the entire physics community because of his discovery of the superheavy phenomenon of W boson in high-energy physics. So Pang Cheng gave up the idea of ​​getting Xiao Yi to join the team.

Soon, Pang Cheng went on stage to receive the award and returned to the stage.

So far, three first prizes in natural sciences have been awarded, and the next ones are the second prizes.

There are 48 second prizes in total. As the host read out the names of the winning projects, the leaders of these project teams took turns to go on stage to receive their awards.

In this way, 48 second prizes in natural sciences were received.

The host said: "Next, we will present the National Technological Invention Award, first prize!"

The Technological Invention Award is naturally more application-oriented than the Natural Science Award. The latter is about theories and methods, while the former is about real products, processes, materials, and other achievements.

Those scientists who were mainly engaged in research in this area also became nervous.

Although the value of the Technological Invention Award is lower than that of the Natural Science Award, it is still a very important award for them and is related to future awards and honors.

At the same time, beside Xiao Yi, Liu Xiaodong and others were also very nervous, looking at the host on the stage with anticipation.

“The first winning project is…”

"Key technologies and equipment for chemical mechanical polishing of integrated circuits!"

Applause broke out, and everyone was equally convinced that this project won the award. This technology is referred to as CMP polishing, which is mainly used for polishing silicon wafers to achieve surface flatness.

The silicon wafer is the main body of the chip, also known as a wafer.

This technology has successfully solved China's "bottleneck" problem in silicon wafer polishing technology and is considered an important achievement in the current strategic field of chips.

The person in charge was from Tsinghua University and he quickly went on stage to receive the award.

Then, the host continued to announce the other first prize winners.

Until five first prizes were awarded.

"Next, we will present the first prize of the Sixth National Technological Invention Award!"

At this time, everyone in the audience had become somewhat numb.

Although the first prize of the Technological Invention Award is not as valuable as the first prize of the Natural Science Award, it is awarded almost every year.

But five have already been awarded, and there is still one?
How many important technologies have emerged in these three years?

However, they wanted to know what this sixth project was!
Just when everyone was thinking this, the host revealed the answer.

"The sixth project is - lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries and corresponding new material technologies!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then became disappointed.

Okay, this sixth project is probably even better than the first one that solved the technical bottleneck.

CMP polishing technology has enabled China to achieve a breakthrough, and this lithium-sulfur solid-state battery has directly enabled China to completely dominate the battery industry.

Lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries have been around for six months now, so finished products have been produced. Although they have not yet been used on a large scale, quite a lot of tests have been done.

For example, in terms of mobile phone batteries, some manufacturers have already come up with concept models that can last more than three days under normal use.

These concept models have already been hyped up in the mobile phone industry.

In the past, the mobile phone circle was full of slanderous and attacking remarks from fans of major manufacturers, which was full of hostility. But now, with the birth of these "long-lasting phones", the hostility has been slightly reduced, and more people have shifted their attention to these new phones.

Of course, these mobile phone manufacturers are not just focusing on extending battery life, so some manufacturers have also launched some "feature phones". These feature phones rely on more powerful batteries to cram in more sensors, use more powerful screens, etc., and improve the functionality of the phone by squeezing more power. Therefore, this type of phone has also attracted widespread attention from consumers. After all, one day of battery life is enough, and most people can still guarantee it with one charge a day.

Perhaps, in the future, mobile phones will be divided into two major camps: long-lasting phones and feature phones, and they will then compete with each other.

As for the role of lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries in other fields, needless to say, whether it is electric vehicles or drones, which attach great importance to battery life, they have expressed great expectations for this new battery.

For example, DJ drones will probably be able to continue to expand their drone territory after using this new battery. After all, this new battery technology will definitely be supplied to DJs first, while foreign competitors will have to lag behind a little.

"Oh yeah!"

At the seats in the Science Island laboratory, Liu Xiaodong and his colleagues had already started celebrating.

I didn't expect that they would actually have a chance to win such an award.

This is the first prize for technological invention!
These rookies who are not even professors actually won the first prize that all the big names dream of.

For a moment, the way they looked at Xiao Yi seemed to be tearing, as if they were about to do so, as if saying, "If you don't forsake me, I'd like to be your adoptive father."

The people around also realized it at this time.

Wow, if I remember correctly, lithium-sulfur solid-state battery is also Xiao Yi’s achievement!
This is equivalent to saying that...

Xiao Yi won three first prizes in one conference? ?
Will anyone be able to surpass this in the future?
Everyone was shocked again.

At this time, Xiao Yi stood up again and walked back onto the stage.

Everyone looked at his expression, which seemed to be a little reluctant.

need tomato!

Damn it!

When he went on stage to receive the award, the old leader even laughed and teased him: "Here you go again."

He quickly received the award and stepped down from the stage again. As expected, the certificate was once again taken by Liu Xiaodong and others and passed around for inspection.

As for the two certificates for the first prize in natural sciences, they were returned. After all, these two certificates belonged only to Xiao Yi, but now this certificate for the first prize in technological inventions belonged to the five of them.

Several people took out their mobile phones to take pictures and then shared them on their Moments.

For example, Liu Xiaodong also sent this photo to Zhou He, who had advised him to run away early.

Zhou He has now fled abroad and is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. I heard that he is living a happy life now. However, when he saw the pictures sent by Liu Xiaodong, he was shocked.

As they are in the materials industry, they certainly know the value of the first prize for technological invention. For a moment, Zhou He couldn't help but express his envy of Liu Xiaodong.

[Damn, if I had known that the Science Island Laboratory was so cool, I would have tried it. ]

Liu Xiaodong laughed and replied: [Isn't it pretty good for you to stay at Columbia University now? ]

Zhou He: [Stop talking. Staying here will scare you. I came here just to have the experience of studying abroad. When I can return to China, I will return and start as a lecturer. As for you, I think you can become a professor directly now, right? ]

Liu Xiaodong replied: [No, no, I was promoted to assistant researcher not long ago.]

Zhou He: [You kid! ]

Liu Xiaodong's face was full of smiles.

Of course, the other three people had similar expressions, and probably only Xiao Yi looked calm.

At this point, the first prizes of the Technological Invention Award have finally been awarded, and other awards will begin to be presented next.

Time passed quickly, all the awards were presented, and this awards ceremony came to an end.

Related reports soon appeared on various news platforms.

At this age, the Chinese people attach the most importance to the development of science and technology in the world, and people pay attention to the scientists who have made great contributions to science and technology.

Therefore, the top of the major hot search lists were quickly occupied by related entries.

For example, the two veteran scientists who won the highest science and technology awards were also sought after by people.

For example, the quantum anomalous Hall effect achieved by Academician Xue, a Nobel Prize-level achievement, has also attracted the attention of quite a number of netizens, especially when people learned that Academician Xue only scored 39 points in the postgraduate entrance examination in physics when he was young, which made people feel a sense of comedy.

However, in fact, Academician Xue scored 99 points in physics in the college entrance examination, only one point away from the full score, and he is still a top student.

Of course, in addition to the two winners of the highest science and technology awards, another hot search has attracted even more people's attention.

【Xiao Yi won three first prizes】

This news once again ignited the excitement of netizens.

Those who understand naturally know how difficult it is to get the first prize in natural sciences and the first prize in technological invention. As a result, Xiao Yi now has three at once.

So much so that the most popular comment under this news is: [Although the conference has been changed to every three years, it still does not affect Xiao Shen's record of winning a first prize every year. ]

Other reviews were even more varied.

[When will Xiao Shen become an academician? ]

【next year!】

[Ah? Three first prizes? Are you kidding me? These three first prizes are probably equivalent to one of the highest science and technology awards, right?]

[No need to think, the only thing Xiao Shen needs to do to win the highest science and technology award is his age]

[There is no age requirement for the highest science and technology award, so I just say a number and you can get it in the next session! ]

[Okay, okay, I'll follow one too, and I'll get it next time! ]

[I think I can get it in two more sessions! ]

【…】

(End of this chapter)