This sentence was awarded to Bao Zhenan in the 20 1 1 Chinese Award for Influencing the World. Maybe everyone will think of plastic surgery when they see beautiful skin. On the one hand, because plastic surgery can really make us look better; On the other hand, cosmetic surgery is not uncommon now. However, keeping beautiful skin here does not mean that, but refers to the great contribution made by Bao Zhenan and her team in the research of artificial electronic skin.
Artificial electronic skin has a wide range of applications, which can be used in artificial limbs, robots, medical devices, automobile safety and so on. Prosthetics, for example, are only substitutes and cannot be freely controlled by people. The emergence of artificial electronic skin, through electronic sensors, allows the disabled to freely control the activities of artificial limbs, just like the previous healthy limbs.
In the following years, Bao Zhenan and her team successively improved several aspects of artificial electronic skin, such as stretchable solar cells and polymer materials. In addition, she has made remarkable achievements in other fields.
Bao Zhenan, 1970, from Nanjing, China. Her parents are professors at Nanjing University, which makes her a scholar. The name Bao Zhenan also has certain meanings, in which Zhe means that her parents want her to be smart, and Nan means that she was born in Nanjing. Influenced by the family environment since childhood, Bao Zhenan's academic performance has been very good. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he was successfully admitted to the chemistry department of Nanjing University and became an alumnus with his parents, which made many people envy him.
Unfortunately, Bao Zhenan's college career was not completed as scheduled. Because in her junior year, her family moved to the United States, and she dropped out of school and didn't get an undergraduate degree. After arriving in the United States, Bao Zhenan continued to study chemistry at the University of Chicago. Because it took her three years to complete the basic courses and lay a good foundation for her major, she successfully completed her master's and doctoral studies at the University of Chicago even if she didn't graduate.
After receiving his doctorate, Bao Zhenan went directly to work in Bell Laboratories. I don't need to introduce how powerful this laboratory is. There are 1 1 Nobel Prize winners and 4 Turing Prizes (Nobel Prizes in Computer Science) coming out from here. It is no exaggeration to say that the existence of Bell Laboratories has changed the development process of mankind several times.
Although Bao Zhenan didn't graduate smoothly, he got his doctorate and finally entered Bell Laboratories. It can also be seen from here that she is so powerful that her life seems to be dying. 200 1 year is also the sixth year for Bao Zhenan to work in the laboratory. She was successfully rated as an outstanding researcher in Bell Laboratories, and it is not easy to stand out among many outstanding scientists. But it didn't make her happy for long, and an academic fraud storm quickly swept through.
All this stems from another researcher in the laboratory, Schon, who is also a very "excellent" scientist. He published hundreds of papers at a young age and was one of the best scholars of his time. More than 20 scientists, including Bao Zhenan, published articles on cooperation with Schon. After Schon's experimental data is found to be wrong, they will naturally be implicated.
At that time, this "Nobel Prize-level" academic fraud storm attracted much attention. Because as we said just now, Bell Laboratories is quite famous, and now such a shameful incident will definitely cause quite a stir, even involving so many researchers. During that time, Bao Zhenan was questioned and discussed a lot. He has just been selected as an excellent researcher, and he is involved in the fraud incident, which is like riding a roller coaster.
However, as Bell Experiment set up a special team to investigate this, the truth soon appeared to everyone. Bao Zhenan and more than 20 other scientists have nothing to do with Schon's fraud and are not responsible. Later, Schon was also expelled from the laboratory. The storm of academic fraud has passed, but it seems that everyone's doubts about Bao Zhenan have not passed.
It actually makes sense. After all, being caught in such a big case, although officially clarified, it is inevitable that someone will question it. Faced with other people's doubts, Bao Zhenan chose to continue his research, and won new honors in the next few years, making outstanding contributions in many fields such as chemistry, energy and nanoelectronics. Including the artificial electronic skin we mentioned at the beginning of the article, Bao Zhenan returned to the peak with this research.
20 17 was appointed as the dean of the School of Chemical Engineering of Stanford University. Before that, there was no precedent for a China person to be the dean of Stanford University, so I had to give her a thumbs-up again. Who would have thought that she didn't graduate from the chemistry department of Nanjing University, and finally became the dean of Stanford University by her own efforts.