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为什么在中国的科学家还没拿Nobel Prize in science? 来源: 双峰 于 2010-12-04 20:54:57

Hi WadeChinese and other guests:
I would like to explore the reasons or lack of reasons why Chinesescientists in China so far do not have the blessing of winning a NobelPrice in Science (medicine/physiology, chemistry, physics, oreconomics). From my personal experience I have a few ideas, please lookout for my future articles on this topics.

I chat with a Medicine/physiology Nobel prize winner recently on this topics. He suggested that:

1. Chinese government institute or Chinese Universities should recruit youngscientists (after 3-5 y post-docs) to go back to do top notch research.Most Nobel prize winning work was done at the age of 30 to 45. After 50y old, not many people are productive at late career in life.

2. If Chinese government censor media (newspapers, radio and TVstations, maganizes et al), Chinese scientists lack the freedom ofspeech, which will have very negative impact on their ways of thinking.This is most critical reason according him.

3. In US or UK, assistant professor and lecturer are PI who haveindependent research projects and funding. Young PIs always have crazyand great ideas and do not conform to dogma and standard of thinking.This is the exact problem in Chinese Universities. Lecturers do nothave independent labs and have to carry heavy teaching burden.

I can list more reasons. I agreed with you that money is not the onlyissue and there are other detrimental problem facing Chinese scientists. Sorry my Chinese typing is very slow. So I typed in English.

刚看到你的讨论, 同意你说的几点
来源: wadcChinese 于 2010-12-04 21:26:59


, 还有就是国内科学界近亲繁殖, 以及太崇拜权威和老人, 缺少平等和年青人缺少独立的机会. 我接触到的一些国内的博士生, 觉得他们与国外博士的差别就是他们太胆小, 循规蹈矩, 不敢有新的想法和突破.

丘成桐说的, 中国的不少博士, 可能不如哈佛的学士水平. 科研是个梯队接力的过程, 一个科研梯队的建立可能要几十年传替接力的培养, 和一个开放自由的环境.本科, 博士, 博士后是个关健的培养独立创新的阶段, 而博士后的几年确实是最有创造力的几年. 中国引进人才的政策还有待改善: 在年青人的培养和给年青人更多成材的机会,而且有能留住人才的吸引力