Congratulation！

Prof. Richard N. Zare has been given the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award 

China honours five foreign scientists from the United States, Denmark, Japan and Canada for their contributions to Sino-foreign research cooperation on the award ceremony of China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award held in Beijing on Jan. 18, 2013.

Among the list are Richard N.Zare (United States), Flemming Besenbacher (Denmark), Lonnie Thompson (United States), Shin-ichi Kurokawa (Japan) and Michael L Phillips (Canada). 
The International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China is a national science and technology award established by the State Council. It is granted to foreign scientists, engineers, managers, or organizations that have made important contributions to China's bilateral or multilateral scientific and technological cooperation. 

Prof. Richard N. Zare, Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University, Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University. He is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level.

Professor Zare helps bring forward the cooperation and communication between the science foundations of China and America during his term as Chairman of the National Science Board of the United States. He has trained a group of high-level Chinese research talents and co-authored 169 articles with Chinese researchers, including as a co-supervisor for Dr. Huibin Wei of our research group.

Professor Zare has received numerous honors and awards. They include: Phi Lambda Upsilon's Fresenius Award (1974), Michael Polanyi Medal, the Gas Kinetics Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1979), the APS Earle K. Plyler Prize (1981), Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh Award (1983), the National Medal of Science (1983), the Evans Award and Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University (1984), the ACS (Maryland Section) Remsen Award (1985), the ACS (Rochester Section) Harrison Howe Award (1985), the APS Irving Langmuir Prize (1985), the ACS (New Haven Section) Kirkwood Medal (1986), Michelson-Morley Award, Case Western Reserve University (1986), the ACS (Chicago Section) Willard Gibbs Medal (1990), the ISCO Award for Significant Contributions to Instrumentation for Biochemical Separations (1990), The National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences (1991), the ACS Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1991), The Harvey Prize (1993), the Dannie-Heineman Preis (1993), the ACS (Puget Sound, Oregon and Portland Sections) Pauling Award (1993), the ACS (Division of Analytical Chemistry) Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1995), NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award (1997), the California Scientist of the Year Award (1997), the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Analytical Chemistry (1997), National Science Board's Distinguished Service Award (1998), the ACS (Auburn Section) G. M. Kosalapoff Award (1998), the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry (1998), the Centennial Medal, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (1998), the ACS E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy (1999), the Welch Award in Chemistry (1999), the APS Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2000), the ACS (North Alabama Section) Madison Marshall Award (2000), the California Separation Science Society Scientific Achievement Award (2000), the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (2000), Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Medal (2001), the ACS Charles Lathrop Parsons Award (2001), the ACS (Sierra Nevada Section) Distinguished Chemist Award (2002), the ACS (New York Section) Nichols Medal (2004), the Chandler Medal, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University (2005), Pupin Medal “for service to the nation,” Columbia University School of Engineering (2005), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Israel (2005), the ACS (University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Section) Oesper Award (2006), the Dudley R. Herschbach Award for Excellence in Research in the field of Collision Dynamics, Dynamics of Molecular Collisions Meeting, Santa Fe (2007), the H. Julian Allen Award, NASA Ames Research Center (2007), the Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry, and Texas A&M Section, ACS, F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research (2009), the ACS (Northeastern Section) Richards Medal (2010), the ACS Priestley Medal (2010), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category (shared with Michael E. Fisher) (2010), the Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (elected 2010), the R. B. Bernstein Award in Stereodynamics (shared with R.D. Levine) (2010), the King Faisal International Prize in Science (shared with George M. Whitesides) (2011), Honorary Membership into the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (2011), the Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011), the Torbern Bergman Medal (2012), and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China (2012).