为什么在中国的科学家还没拿Nobel Prize in science?

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.

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• 也许是挪威怕制裁吧？ -xkk- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/04/2010 postreply 22:13:31

• 让刘给闹得，中国的科学家们都不敢想了。怕得了奖也在机场给拦下。 -TitanII- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/05/2010 postreply 15:17:31