Artem Oganov receives China’s international science and technology cooperation award personally from Xi Jinping

Artem Oganov, crystallographer, professor at Skoltech, the Russian Academy of Sciences and MISIS (National University of Science and Technology), and member of the European Academy of Sciences, has become the youngest laureate of China’s international science and technology cooperation award, receiving the award personally from Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China. Oganov, who was named by Forbes among the “50 Russians Who Conquered the World,” announced the news on his Telegram channel.

“I just received China’s International Science and Technology Cooperation Award in Beijing personally from Xi Jinping. This award is given once every two years to no more than 10 laureates (this time there were nine). Past laureates include many great scientists, among them six Nobel laureates, as well as American physicist Shoucheng Zhang, who was considered the most likely candidate for a Nobel Prize (until FBI intimidation drove him to suicide). This year’s laureates included the great chemist and Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn. In fact, chemists and materials scientists effectively dominated this year’s awards, further evidence of a second spring for the chemical sciences.

This is China’s most prestigious scientific award. And it’s the most prestigious award I have ever received. With this award comes great responsibility to keep moving forward, to keep developing, and to make the world a better place,” Oganov wrote, adding that he appears to be the youngest laureate in the award’s history.