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Chinese Team Wins Breakthrough Prize for Neutrino Research
From CRIENGLISH.com
Wang Yifang, from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[中科院高能物理研究所], attended the award ceremony of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[2016基础物理学突破奖] at the NASA Ames Research Centre[艾姆斯研究中心].
2015年11月9日，王贻芳获得基础物理学突破奖（中国科学家首次获得该奖项）。“科学突破奖”单项奖金高达300万美元，远超诺贝尔奖，堪称科学界“第一巨奖” 。
王贻芳，男，研究员，博士生导师。1984年毕业于南京大学物理系，现任中国科学院高能物理研究所所长。
He is the director of the team behind China's Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment[大亚湾反应堆中微子实验].
"I attribute this prize to the joint and relentless[无情的；残酷的；不间断的] efforts of our team members. And a lot of hard work has been done in the past 30 years for China's high-energy physics[高能物理学] to have today's achievements."
Established in 2006, the Daya Bay team discovered the value of the angle theta one-three, the last of three long-sought neutrino mixing angles[中微子混合角], in 2012.
The groundbreaking[开创性的] achievement is based on analysis and measurements of how the oscillation[ 振荡；振动；摆动] process varies with neutrino energy[中微子能量] by some 200 scientists from six countries and regions around the world.
Wang Yifang says the discovery is of great importance to neutrino research[中微子研究]:
"This result laid a solid foundation for further research on cosmology[宇宙学] and particle physics[粒子物理学] and provided a direction for further research on neutrino."
This is the first time that Chinese scientists have won the prize.
The prize is one of three awarded by the Breakthrough Foundation for outstanding contributions in life sciences[生命科学], fundamental physics[基础物理学], and mathematics[数学].
Russian entrepreneur[企业家] and physicist[物理学家] Yuri Milner founded the Breakthrough Foundation.
He also awarded a three million U.S. dollars prize to the five winning teams.
Milner explains the rationale[ 基本原理；原理的阐述] behind the sum of money offered as a prize by the foundation.
"It is a big enough number to send the message to the world that science is important. We need to keep in mind that the kind of scientists that are getting those prizes, they don't have the ability to use any intellectual property[知识产权], because discovery belongs to everyone, from the time it's been discovered. So we made it so that everything that the scientists discover belongs to everyone, that's why they usually don't make a lot of money. "
The other four teams honored are KamLand, K2K/T2K, and Super-Kamiokande[超级神冈探测器] from Japan, as well as the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory[萨德伯里微中子观测站] from Canada.
For CRI, I'm Victor Ning.
