The first prize of the State Award for Natural Sciences has finally found its suitable recipient after being vacant for four years in succession.
A research team headed by Jiang Xikui, a CAS member with the CAS Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, won the prize for its outstanding achievement in the field of physical organic chemistry.
After about two-decade hard work, the group, focusing on organic molecular congeries and free radicals, has invented a series of new concepts and comprehensive and reliable parameters that "yield the fundamental meanings" to research into the phenomenon of life and some physical and pathological processes.
The State Award for Natural Sciences is part of national S&T Awards scheme that were established in 1955. The Jiang' s group is the only winner for its first prize since 1997.
