China presents awards to outstanding scientists

2010/01/13

Two scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences received China's top science honor Monday for their outstanding contributions to scientific and technological innovation.

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Chinese President Hu Jintao (C), poses with mathematician Gu Chaohao (R) and space scientist Sun Jiadong, who won China's 2009 State Top Scientific and Technological Award, during a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 11, 2010. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)

Gu Chaohao, a mathematician, and space scientist Sun Jiadong won China's 2009 State Top Scientific and Technological Award.

Gu was born in 1926 in Wenzhou of southeast Zhejiang Province. He received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from Moscow State University in 1959 and is a former vice president of Fudan University and a former president of the University of Science and Technology of China.

He was honored for his "important contributions" to differential geometry, partial differential equations and mathematical physics, three sub-disciplines of modern mathematics, according to a statement from the awards organizing committee.