Zhang Zhongmo and Chen Jianren congratulated Li Yuanzhe on his 90th birthday and gave two major wishes

Nobel Li Yuanze, Taiwan winner of the Chemistry Prize and former dean of Academia Sinica, celebrated his 90th birthday. The Institute of Nuclear and Molecular Sciences of Academia Sinica held a celebration party and dinner on the 7th, inviting more than 100 domestic and foreign academic friends, students, relatives and friends to gather to celebrate his birthday. Li Yuanze shared that his two wishes are “to become an excellent scientist and to work with like-minded people to create a better world.” He emphasized that there is a lot of scope for efforts in future also and work will continue in this direction.

Academia Sinica reported that the festival was inaugurated by Wei Jinming, director of the Institute of Nuclear and Molecular Sciences, andChen Jianren Liao Junzhi, former president of Academia Sinica, academician Wang Fansun and former Education Minister Huang Rongkun gave speeches in turn. Founder of TSMCzhang zhongmou The couple, former Straits Exchange Foundation chairman Wu Fengshan, Hexin Hospital chairman Huang Dafu and others also attended the dinner.

In his speech, Chen Jianren said that Li Yuanzhe is not only an internationally renowned scientific giant, but also a warm and determined leader. He reminded that Li Yuanzhe called for epidemic prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic and has long been concerned about issues such as global warming, climate change and sustainable human development. He believed that Li Yuanze, with his comprehensive vision and concern for Taiwan, led Academia Sinica to integrate with society and connect with the world, and also laid an important foundation for Taiwan’s scientific research development and academic freedom.

Li Yuanzhe personally thanked the participants. He said that when he was young he had two aspirations, one to become an excellent scientist and the other to work with like-minded partners to create a better world. There is still a lot of scope for efforts in the future and he will continue to work hard in this direction.

The festival attracted many alumni and friends from the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea to visit Taiwan, including Northwestern University professor and academician of the National Academy of Sciences George Schatz and Daniel Newmark, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and academician of the National Academy of Sciences. Many students also sent their blessings through video.

The participants shared their memories of working, researching and living with Li Yuanzhe over the years and reviewed his contributions to academic research and talent development. At the end of the celebration, a birthday cake was presented along with the cross-molecular beam manuscript, echoing Li Yuanzhe’s important research results that earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

At the dinner, Li Yuanzhe’s daughter Charlotte Li also shared her father’s role in the family, saying that the entire family is proud of her father and thanked her father for his long-term support in pursuing her goals and bravely pursuing her dreams. The violinist Tsang Yu-chien and the pianist Wang Peiyao were also invited to perform together to perform the blessing with Western classical music and Taiwanese classic tunes.

Li Yuanzhe has long been devoted to the study of chemical reaction kinetics. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his cross-molecular beam method. He was also an important figure in promoting the establishment of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences of the Academia Sinica. In 1982, he together with several academics from Academia Sinica proposed the establishment of an institute, which led to the establishment of the original branch on the campus of National Taiwan University.

Academia Sinica pointed out that from 1994 to 2006, when Li Yuanzhe served as the seventh president of Academia Sinica, he actively promoted basic research, recruited outstanding talents, promoted international academic cooperation, and enhanced Taiwan’s academic research energy.