"Breaking the Boundaries of Science: Dialogue between Generation Z and Top Scientists" live event was held recently. Picture courtesy of the Science and Technology Communication Center of the China Association for Science and Technology
China News Service, Beijing, November 4 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Science and Technology Communication Center of the China Association for Science and Technology announced to the media on the 4th that the center, together with the CGTN think tank and the World Association of Top Scientists, recently held a conference in Shanghai The live broadcast event "Breaking the Boundaries of Science: Dialogue between Generation Z and Top Scientists" was held. Top scientists emphasized that curiosity is the basic driving force of science when talking to young people.
At this dialogue event, 15 world-renowned science award winners and Chinese young scientists and scientific self-media experts started from different scientific fields and professional backgrounds, focusing on basic science, cutting-edge technology, social science, medical health and youth scientific literacy. exchanges on cultivation and other aspects. During the
event, top scientists and young people had a lively discussion on the role of curiosity in scientific research. John Hopcroft, winner of the Turing Award in 1986, and Robert Kirshner, an astronomer at Harvard University, expressed the same view in conversations with young scientists. They believed that curiosity is The fundamental drive of science, the desire for answers, is a powerful force.
Qian Rong, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Cao Kecheng, an assistant professor at the Shanghai University of Science and Technology, as representatives of the new force in China's scientific and technological innovation, also shared similar views and pointed out that talent is not the most important factor for a successful researcher. Passion for something and hard work are equally important.
In addition, interdisciplinary and the balance between liberal arts and science are also hot topics in this dialogue event. Richard Zare, winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, believes that although mass spectrometry was developed in physics, it has many applications in physical chemistry and will even be used more frequently in the future. medicine. Efim Zelmanov, winner of the 1994 Fields Medal, believes that learning some general scientific knowledge is of great benefit to cultivating people's thinking ability and logical thinking. Mark, a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, represents Generation Z and discusses with scientists the issues of concern to young people, such as their self-growth and scientific literacy, and the balance between liberal arts and science.
It is understood that this "Breaking the Boundaries of Science: Dialogue between Generation Z and Top Scientists" event aims to create a scientific platform for cross-border dialogue, promote the collision of ideas between Generation Z and top scientists, and explore scientific issues from different perspectives. nature and the future direction of human development. (End)
Source: China News Network
