China’s President presents top foreign science and technology award to LSU professor

March 2018

 

China’s President Jinping Xi presented the 2017 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People’s Republic of China to Professor Earl Ward Plummer, a faculty member in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy. Plummer was one of seven people to receive this award for his contribution to the development of science and technology in China.

 

Created in 1994 by the State Council, this award is presented to foreign experts or organizations that have made important contributions to China’s science and technology undertaking and development. The award is presented to no more than 10 individuals or organizations each year.

 

“I am honored to have received this award for international collaboration,” Plummer said. “In my mind, what is most significant is that in some small way, I may have played a role in the history of science and the emergence of China as a world leader in science and technology.”

 

Plummer is currently a visiting fellow in the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

 

 

This article was adapted from a media release by LSU’s Alison Satake. For the original article, please visit, http://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2018/01/16physastro_Plummer_China.php.