Nuclear physicist Yu Min receives nation's top science award   

“两弹一星”功勋于敏获2014年度国家最高科技奖

中共中央、国务院1月9日在北京人民大会堂举行2014年度国家科学技术奖励大会。著名核物理学家、“两弹一星”功勋于敏院士获2014年度国家最高科学技术奖。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平为他颁奖。[查看全文]

Chinese nuclear physicist Yu Min won China's top science and technology accolade on Friday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presented the award to Yu, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at a high-profile annual ceremony held to honor distinguished scientists and research achievements.

Yu, born in north China's Tianjin in 1926, was behind China's first successful hydrogen bomb test during the Cold War era, miniaturization of nuclear weapons, technological breakthroughs in the neutron bomb, and filled the nation's void in the theory of atomic nucleus.

China's first hydrogen bomb was detonated on June 17, 1967, 32 months after the country's first atomic bomb test. It took the United States seven years and three months to develop a hydrogen bomb after its first atomic bomb test.