SHANGHAI, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The fifth World Laureates Forum, or WLA Forum, efficiently held in Shanghai, that includes 60 prime scientists worldwide, together with 27 Nobel Prize laureates.
On the annual theme of the discussion board, “Science Forward: Create a Bright Future”, Roger Kornberg, Chairman of the World Laureates Association (WLA) and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006, defined that the world is altering quick, and science may help us deal with the challenges in the future. Before its official opening, varied conferences and occasions, together with WLA Zero Carbon Forum, WLA SHE Forum, the WLA Sci-T Conference, and the newly-launched WLA Laboratories Forum, have been held since 29 October. (Follow us at Twitter&Facebook @wlaforum)
Notably, the inaugural World Laureates Association Prize (WLA Prize) was awarded to 2 scientists at the opening ceremony on 6 November. The 2022 WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics was awarded to Michael I. Jordan, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences & Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, for his basic contributions to the foundations of machine studying and its utility. And the 2022 WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine was awarded to German biochemist Dirk Gorlich, Scientific member and Director, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, for his key discoveries elucidating the mechanism and selectivity of protein transport between the cytoplasm and nucleus.
Michael I. Jordan, 2022 WLA Prize Laureate in Computer Science or Mathematics- “We have a tradition at Berkeley that when someone gets a prize, on the email, there’s a congratulation from everybody going around all day long. So it’s very nice you get 100 emails of congratulations.”
Dirk Gorlich, 2022 WLA Prize Laureate in Life Science or Medicine-“I felt surprised and very happy. I felt extremely honored. I should also say one should not do science just in waiting for an award. Science itself is very rewarding. It’s a great privilege to do science.”
The financial award for every prize is 10 million yuan ($1.39 million). More details about the nomination of the WLA Prize in 2023 will likely be introduced at the official web site www.wlaprize.org.
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