Another vacancy, two of the three major awards belong to China, and the "Global Energy Award" is awarded for the first time to the father | winner | scientist of local scientists in China
Recently, the 2023 Global Energy Award was officially announced, with one of its three major awards vacant each year, while the other two belong to Chinese scientists. It is reported that this is also the first time that a scientist from mainland China has been awarded this honor. And previous winners include "Father of Solar Energy", "Father of LED", and multiple Nobel laureates.
Picture of Wang Ruzhu's award ceremony
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According to a reporter from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor Wang Ruzhu from the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering has made outstanding contributions in the efficient utilization of low-grade thermal energy in refrigeration, heat pumps, and thermal and humidity control, winning this international energy award. At the same time, academician Wang Zhonglin, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Institute of Nano Energy and Systems, also won the award for inventing the friction nano generator as a new energy technology for mankind.
Picture of Wang Zhonglin's award ceremony
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The Global Energy Award is a renowned international technology award in the energy field, established by the Global Energy Association in 2002 and presented annually since 2003. This award is a recognition for outstanding achievements in scientific research and development in the field of energy, in recognition of scientists who have made extraordinary scientific achievements in the development issues, models, and prospects of the world's energy industry. It promotes the improvement of new technologies in the energy field and the discovery of efficient new energy, ensuring its safety and environmental protection, and promoting sustainable development of human civilization.
Starting from 2019, this award will reward one scholar in three areas: traditional energy, unconventional energy, and new ways of energy application. Under the "3060 Dual Carbon" strategy of "peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality" in China, Professor Wang Ruzhu has won the "New Methods of Energy Application" award. Academician Wang Zhonglin has won this year's "Unconventional Energy" award, while the "Traditional Energy" award is vacant.
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According to statistics, since its establishment, the Global Energy Prize has been awarded to 48 scientists from 15 countries, including Akira Yoshino, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Shuji Nakamura, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, Martin Green, father of solar energy, Nick Holonyak, and other scientists. Among them, two Chinese scientists from the United States have won awards, namely Professor Yang Peidong from the University of California, Berkeley and Professor Cui Yi from Stanford University.
As a scientist in Shanghai, China, Wang Ruzhu is an expert in refrigeration, heat pumps, and thermal and humidity regulation, achieving systematic innovative achievements in the efficient conversion, storage, and utilization of low-grade thermal energy. His pioneering regenerative and regenerative adsorption refrigeration cycle has opened up a new path for efficient refrigeration with low-grade thermal energy; The pioneering moisture storage heat pump cycle has doubled the energy efficiency of heat pump air conditioning; The proposed super large temperature rise heat pump steam generation system provides a revolutionary new method for industrial thermal decarbonization.
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He has significantly promoted the intersection between thermal science and materials science through independent innovation, and made important contributions in high-density storage and regulation of thermal energy. He has won the National Natural Science Second Prize, National Technology Invention Second Prize, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Innovation Award, Gustav Lorentzen Medal, the highest academic award of the International Refrigeration Society, as well as multiple international academic achievement awards issued by the International Energy Agency, the Japan Heat Transfer Society, and the British Refrigeration Society.
Wang Zhonglin is a major creator and founder of the field of nanoenergy research, having won nearly 20 international science and technology awards, including the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Award in 2015, the highest award in the energy field - the Eni Award in 2018, and the Einstein World Science Award, an international comprehensive science and technology award in 2019.
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