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Who won the first prize of the National Natural Science and Technology Progress Award?
1956 65438+1October 24th, the "Science Award of China Academy of Sciences" was awarded for the first time (and only time) after the founding of New China. There are three first prize winners, namely mathematician Hua, mathematician Wu Wenjun and aerodynamicist Qian Xuesen.

Hua dropped out of poor high school, but he became a self-taught student. At the age of 20, he published a paper that shocked the academic community. He was invited to work in Tsinghua, then gave lectures in the United States and was hired as a tenured professor. Wu Wenjun discovered the basic achievement "Wu Formula" in the field of algebraic topology, and his "Wu Method" is an important method in the field of theorem machine proof. Qian Xuesen is the "father of China's space flight", a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, and leads the overall development of China space launch vehicle. Needless to say, the weight of these three people.

After these three masters won the prize, the science prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences was suspended for more than 20 years-it was not awarded again until 1982, and the name of the prize at that time was changed to the "National Natural Science Award" that we are familiar with today.