Nuclear physicist Yu Min receives nation's top science award   

“兩彈一星”功勛于敏獲2014年度國(guó)家最高科技獎(jiǎng)

中共中央、國(guó)務(wù)院1月9日在北京人民大會(huì)堂舉行2014年度國(guó)家科學(xué)技術(shù)獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)大會(huì)。著名核物理學(xué)家、“兩彈一星”功勛于敏院士獲2014年度國(guó)家最高科學(xué)技術(shù)獎(jiǎng)。中共中央總書記、國(guó)家主席、中央軍委主席習(xí)近平為他頒獎(jiǎng)。[查看全文]

Chinese nuclear physicist Yu Min won China's top science and technology accolade on Friday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the award to Yu, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at a high-profile annual ceremony held to honor distinguished scientists and research achievements.

Yu, born in north China's Tianjin in 1926, was behind China's first successful hydrogen bomb test during the Cold War era, miniaturization of nuclear weapons, technological breakthroughs in the neutron bomb, and filled the nation's void in the theory of atomic nucleus.

China's first hydrogen bomb was detonated on June 17, 1967, 32 months after the country's first atomic bomb test. It took the United States seven years and three months to develop a hydrogen bomb after its first atomic bomb test.