2008-11-13

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XinHua Beijing on October 8 XinHua Chinese-American scientist QiangYongjian on the 8th with the Japanese village under repair, as well as the American co-Shaer Fei Martin ? 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

QianYongjian in 1952 was born in New York, grew up in Livingston, New Jersey. Yongjian money the family can be called "House of scientists," there are a number of engineers at home, his father was a mechanical engineer, is the uncle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor.

QianYongjian as a child suffering from asthma, often only stay at home. His interest in chemical experiments, often at home in the basement to do chemical experiments, a few hours to do that. 16-year-old, money Yongjian life was the first major awards, the United States to give high school students to complete research projects of the highest awards: the Westinghouse Science Talent Award, when he studied how the metal is combined with the thiocyanate.

QianYongjian later took the U.S. National Excellence scholarship to study at Harvard University to enter, was 20-year-old chemistry and physics degree from Harvard graduate, and then went to Cambridge University to study physiology in 1977 to obtain a doctorate.

In 1981, QianYongjian came to the University of California at Berkeley and working here 8 years and became a university professor. In 1989, his master Yong-money move to the laboratory at the University of California at San Diego, he is now the school's pharmacology professor, and professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

QianYongjian in 1995 was elected Fellow of the American Medical Institute, was elected in 1998 the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Academy of Sciences.

QianYongjian received many important awards, including: in 1991, the Fund Pasa Nuo Young Scientist Award; in 1995, Belgium Artois - valle - Latour Health Prize; in 1995, the Gairdner Foundation International Award; In 1995, the American Heart Association Award for basic research; in 2002, the American Chemical Society Award for Innovation; in 2002, the Royal Netherlands Academy of biochemistry and biophysics at home and awards; in 2004, one of the world's highest achievement award Israel Prize Wolf Prize in Medicine .

Source: XinHua network (October 8, 2008)