2007-9-17

"2006 Nobel Prize Winner Beijing Forum" has ended. Yesterday afternoon on the Health Exhibition sponsored by Beijing Association of Science and Technology (BAST) and China Science & Technology Museum (CSTM), Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell suggested building a Nobel Prize Museum based on this exhibition to inspire the enthusiasm of Chinese young people in science.
An executive of China Science & Technology Museum confirmed that the fifth floor of the museum has been exhibiting the inventions and important discoveries of the Nobel Prize winners in life science through printed matter, real objects and physical models. These are the preliminary preparations for the Nobel Prize Museum and will continue to increase. However, the location of the planned museum is not yet determined.
6 Nobel Prize winners also visited the "Nobel Museum" inside CSTM. Then the 6 winners left their handwriting on their own photos. The 1998 Nobel Prize winner in medicine or physiology, Ferid Murad from University of Texas, wrote "Have the Passion to Be Dedicated to Science". The 1988 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Hartmut Michel from Biological Physics Institute, Max Planck Society, Germany wrote - "Hope this trip can inspire the Chinese young people. You will succeed."

 Fun Facts
Nobel Prize winner does not know how to use keys in China
Yesterday on the site of the Health Exhibition in CSTM, the reporter found that when more than 10 pupils gave the keys to open the DNA double helix model to the Nobel Prize winners and the Chinese scientists, 6 winners stood by the small locks with the keys in hand. The 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Aaron Ciechanover from Israel Institute of Technology did not know how to Chinese keys. He made a face humorously and sought "help" from a Beijing citizen. After getting the help, Ciechanover gave a thumbs-up thank to near 100 citizens around him, and the latter encouraged this great scientist in the field of life science with their applauses.