Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-24
By: Central News Agency
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has met with winners of this year’s Tang Prize — known as the Asian Nobel Prize — and their representatives over the past two days to exchange experiences ahead of this weekend’s awards ceremony, the Tang Prize Foundation said Saturday.
This year’s laureates are Arthur H. Rosenfeld, former commissioner of the California Energy Commission, who won the prize for sustainable development; Jennifer A. Doudna and Feng Zhang (張鋒) of the United States, and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France, who shared the prize for biopharmaceutical science; American scholar William Theodore de Bary, who won the prize for Sinology; and Louise Arbour, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who won the prize for rule of law.
All the winners are currently in Taiwan for the awards ceremony scheduled to be held on Sunday, except for 90-year-old Rosenfeld and 97-year-old de Bary, who decided not to travel to Taiwan because of their age.
Rosenfeld is being represented by his protege Ashok Gadgil, a senior scientist at the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [FULL STORY]