In 14 November 2024, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) awards were unveiled, with 25 scholars from 13 countries, including China, India, and Malaysia, sharing the awards in 11 scientific fields (Economics, Agriculture, Nutrition & Food Systems Sciences, Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Earth, Climate & Environmental Sciences, Engineering & Computer Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Medical & Health Sciences, Physics, Astronomy & Space Sciences, Social Sciences) of which 8 Chinese scholars were honored. Hong Ding, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, T. D. Lee Chair Professor was awarded with 2024 TWAS Award in Physics, Astronomy and Space Sciences (shared) “For his seminal contributions to discoveries of the Weyl fermion and other novel topology-related quasiparticles in solids”.
Biography of Hong Ding
Hong Ding, T.D. Lee Chair Professor and Deputy Director of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained BS degree in physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1990 and PhD degree in physics from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Argonne National Laboratory from 1996 to 1998. He was a faculty member of Department of Physics at Boston College during 1998 - 2008. He was a Chief Scientist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) during 2008 - 2022. He has made several significant scientific achievements, including discovery of pseudogap in cuprate superconductors, observation of s-wave superconducting gap in iron-based superconductors, discovery of Weyl fermions in solids, and discovery of Majorana zero modes in iron-based superconductors. He has published more than 300 papers with total citations over 20000. He received Sloan Research Fellowship Award in 1999, was elected as American Physical Society Fellow in 2011, received Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize (Individual Prize) of CAS in 2020, selected as New Cornerstone Investigator in 2022, and elected as an academician of CAS in 2023.
Testimonials
“Winning this TWAS Award is a great honour for me, since it fully recognizes my contributions to discoveries of Weyl fermion and other novel topology-related quasiparticles in solids,” said Ding.“It will further motivate me to find more elusive topological quasiparticles in the material world, especially Majorana fermion and Majorana zero mode.”
——By Hong Ding
TWAS President Quarraisha Abdool Karim unveiled the names of the winners of the awards, including the TWAS Medal Lecture, during the TWAS General Meeting. In 2024, the TWAS General Meeting took place online and was coordinated by the TWAS Secretariat in Trieste, Italy.
About TWAS
TWAS, founded in 1983 by Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit international scientific organization. Headquartered in Trieste, Italy, it is dedicated to supporting scientific research activities in developing countries, promoting exchanges and cooperation among researchers and research institutions, and advancing the development of basic and applied sciences .The TWAS Awards was established since the founding of TWAS to recognize scientists from developing countries who have made outstanding contributions to the field of scientific research and has been awarded every two years since 2016. More information: www.twas.org
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