Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 523: Chapter 311: The C Position is Based on Strength!

Before the National Science and Technology Awards Ceremony, Zhao Yi received his invitation and identification badge, which was the entry ticket to the ceremony.

The personal invitation did not specify what award he would receive. Instead, the invitation for his laboratory clearly stated that they had won the ’Science and Technology Progress Award’. For the laboratory’s invitation, a list of participants who will attend the awards ceremony was required.

Each award-winning project was limited to two participants, typically the heads of the laboratory. Once the names were submitted, they received their tickets to the National Science and Technology Awards Ceremony.

Zhao Yi submitted the names of Ai Lixin and Zhang Wei. He personally already had the entry ticket to the ceremony, so he didn’t need to submit his name.

Before the Science and Technology Awards Ceremony began, some ’rumors’ would circulate in the scientific and academic circles, like which project had won which award.

These rumors usually turned out to be true.

The scientific and academic circle in the country is small, and high-impact projects were well-known, so it’s rare for unknown projects to suddenly win awards.

It was now confirmed that Zhao Yi’s laboratory had won the National Science and Technology Progress Award for their research on ’the mechanism of Rheumatoid Arthritis’. It just wasn’t clear whether they had won a first-class award or a second-class award.

Zhao Yi had won an award individually as well.

According to some so-called ’inside news’, Zhao Yi had won the First-class Award of Natural Science. Many people had come to congratulate him, but whether he had really won and what he had won for were unknown until the Science and Technology Awards Ceremony was held.

However, everyone was very confident in Zhao Yi, and he was very confident too, because his work was top-tier research with global influence, not some work that stayed in the grey zone between winning an award and not winning.

What many people were interested in was, which research would the evaluation committee award Zhao Yi for.

Normally, it should be a mathematics research.

Zhao Yi’s achievements in the field of mathematics were the highest. He’d solved the centuries-old Goldbach Conjecture, completed a three-dimensional tremor waveform chart that was more meaningful than the Riemann Conjecture, and had other achievements and contributions that were very attractive, such as proving the Collatz Conjecture and making great progress in researching the weakened twin prime problem.

And so on.

Actually, even excluding his achievements in mathematics, Zhao Yi’s research in other fields could also win awards.

For instance, the Effective and Irrelevant Carry Filtering.

Over the past two years, this filtering method had been widely applied, and as this algorithm was widely used, it naturally increased its influence.

Zhao Yi also applied the filtering method in micro-particle research, designing a whole new set of algorithms, which helped the European Nuclear Research Structure detect new particle signals.

This achievement was considered to have ’made a huge contribution to the world’s micro-particle research’. Future particle research could refer to Zhao Yi’s methods to amplify signals of data anomalies, leading to more discoveries.

"So, what exactly is he winning the award for?"

Zhao Yi was also very interested in this as it involved him personally and bestowed a huge honor as the award was at the national level.

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What few people knew was that the evaluation committee for the Science and Technology Award had been troubled over how to award Zhao Yi for quite a while.

"Which of Zhao Yi’s achievements should receive the award?"

"If we follow the normal evaluation process, he could win awards for several of his achievements, and they could all be a first-class award or better." fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

"How do we judge this?

The evaluation committee had even held several meetings because of this.

Director Zhang was one of the main people in charge of the evaluation committee, and he found the issue of awarding Zhao Yi to be a headache. frёeωebɳovel.com

This was Zhao Yi’s first time winning a national science and technology award.

The evaluation committee would definitely take all of his achievements into consideration, and normally they would choose the achievement with the greatest impact, which was the proof of the Goldbach Conjecture.

But there was a problem.

Even elementary school textbooks contained the story of ’Chen Jingrun proving 1+2’, and many people viewed Chen Jingrun as the greatest mathematician in the nation’s history and a hero among scientific researchers.

Now that Zhao Yi had proved the Goldbach Conjecture, his achievement was definitely higher than Chen Jingrun’s. Using this as judgment, he could definitely win the First-class Award of Natural Science or even higher, and the higher than the first-class award was the Highest Science and Technology Award.

There would be no problem theoretically with Zhao Yi winning the National Highest Science and Technology Award for ’proving the Goldbach Conjecture’. From the criteria of the importance of the technological contribution of the achievement, the prestige in the scientific and technological community, and the expert coefficient, all could be considered full values. The only uncertain aspect, ’scientific ideological morality’, could not possibly be used as a standard to brush down a candidate.

Who dares to openly say ’the ideological morality of a certain famous scholar is not up to standard, so he won’t be awarded’?

If such words were spoken, they’d definitely be drowned in public criticism. Moreover, it would deter scholars intending to apply, and Zhao Yi was a national treasure-level genius. If there were any problems, the higher-ups would certainly investigate and hold responsible parties accountable.

However, the Highest Science and Technology Award could not be given to Zhao Yi.

The reason was his age.

In the selection rules for the National Highest Science and Technology Award, there was no stipulation about age, although the state did encourage young researchers to conduct innovative research. However, one must consider that they were not some folk selection body, but a selection body representing the state. The awards they distributed were not just awards, but also carried a certain other influence.