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SHANGHAI, Nov. 6, 2023 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

The five winners of the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize (WLA Prize)

received their awards for their ground-breaking achievements in computer

science or mathematics and life science or medicine on Nov. 6 at the opening

ceremony of the 6th WLA Forum held in China's financial hub Shanghai, the

forum's permanent site.

Initiated by the World Laureates Association, the WLA Prize is an annual

international science prize established in Shanghai in 2021 and exclusively

funded by venture capital and private equity firm HongShan. The WLA Prize, with

an award of 10 million yuan for each prize, aims to recognize and support

eminent researchers and technologists worldwide for contributions to the two

categories of computer science or mathematics and life science or medicine.

"This is a truly exceptional honor for me, a level of recognition the magnitude

of which I never dreamt of," said Prof. Arkadi Nemirovski, one of the two

laureates of the WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics. Prof. Yurii E.

Nesterov, the other laureate, considered receiving this prize "as a recognition

for our life-time achievements."

Arkadi Nemirovski is from the U.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, and Yurii

Nesterov is from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. They won the

WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics "for their seminal work in convex

optimization theory."

Daniela Rhodes from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the

United Kingdom, Karolin Luger from the University of Colorado Boulder, the

United States, and Timothy J. Richmond from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, were named

the winners of the 2023 WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine "for elucidating

the structure of the nucleosome at the atomic level."

"They have left an indelible mark on the history of our understanding of

chromosome structure," said Prof. Randy Schekman, Chair of 2023 WLA Prize

Selection Committee for Life Science or Medicine.

The award offers an account of their decades-long research journey in

elucidating the structure of the nucleosome.

"Science is a lonely, selfish, excruciatingly frustrating, and obsessive

occupation," said Prof. Karolin Luger. For Prof. Timothy J. Richmond, "success

in groundbreaking research also requires a great deal of patience and

perseverance." But "to do research is a great privilege," said Prof. Daniela

Rhodes.

The 6th WLA Forum, which is also livestreamed online, attracted the attendance

of over 300 participants, including the world laureates, academicians, senior

scientists, young scientists, and professionals from 25 countries and regions.

Both the inaugural WLA Prize laureates and the new winners attended the forum,

participating in a series of events like the WLA Prize Laureates Lecture and

the WLA Prize Laureates Roundtable, engaging in meaningful conversations with

other scientists and sharing insightful inspirations with the scholars across

the globe.

Source: World Laureates Forum (WLA Forum)

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   Caption: Five WLA Prize Laureates received medals at the 2023 WLA Prize Award Ceremony

of the 6th World Laureates Forum on November 6.