WhenWillThereBeaNobelPrize-winningWorkonChineseSoil(中英双语)讲述.docVIP

When Will There Be a Nobel Prize-winning Work on Chinese Soil? With Steven Chu and Cui Qi receiving the Nobel Prize in the last two years, there has been much discussion in the newspaper and magazines on why there has not been any prize-winning work done on Chinese soil. This is an important issue to be discussed, but in discussing this issue, we must not be emotional or rake up any other irrelevant points. We must deal with this issue on its own merits and take the long historical view in our discussions. Scientific research requires tradition, experiment and economic foundations. Such prerequisites were absent on Chinese soil before the 1950s. 诺贝尔奖何时会在中国的大地上出现？ 这两年随着朱棣文和崔琦先后获得诺贝尔奖，报纸和杂志上涌现大量讨论：为什么在中国的大地上还没有出现能获得诺贝尔奖的作业？这是一个非常值得讨论的问题。但是在讨论这个问题时，我们不能意气用事，更不能牵扯其它不相干的问题，我们必须从长远的历史角度来就事论事。 一．科学研究讲究的是传统，实验，以及经济基础。而在20世纪50年代以前的中国大地上，这些条件是无法满足的。 This is a historical fact of the past 500 years. Most people view China’s development in science and technology as a failure. This view is entirely wrong. In the beginning of this century, China can be considered as having no knowledge of modern science and technology at all. It was literally “starting from scratch”. By the 1960s, it has detonated two nuclear devices and sent a satellite to space. The speed of the development was nothing short of a miracle. Historically, only Japan since the 1868 Meiji Reformation could match this pace of modernization. In the basic sciences, Chines scientists succeeded in synthesising insulin between 1958 这是过去500年以来历史事实。 二.大多数人都认为中国的科学技术发展是不成功的，其实这个观点是完全错误的。本世纪初，中国可以说是没有一点现代科学知识，是真正的“从零开始”。到了20世纪60年代，我国制造出了“两弹一星”。 中国这样的发展速度可谓是个奇迹。在历史上，只有日本自1868年的明治维新后开始的高速现代化发展可以与之相媲美。 三.在基础科学方面，中国科学家在1958年到1964年之间就成功合成胰岛素，这是一次领 and 1964. This is a world pioneering effort that fully deserved a Nobel Prize. However, China then isolated from the rest of the world, thus it did not receive the Nobel Prize for this feat. In truth, this feat not only led the world academically, but in the history of ac