the top ten scientific figures of 2020, biomedicine accounts for half!

The end of the year is approaching, the most is a year for self-examination.

Nature magazine counted the top ten people who helped shape science in 2020 (Nature’s 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2020), and announced the ten people who made milestone explorations in scientific development this year.

Nature’10 is neither an award nor a ranking, but the story of a COVID vaccine developer, an Arctic navigator, a prime minister, and a famous scientist who participated in this year’s major scientific research events. It is hoped that through these related character stories, key events in these scientific fields can be made more prominent.

Nature’10 is neither an award nor a ranking, but the story of a COVID vaccine developer, an Arctic navigator, a prime minister, and a famous scientist who participated in this

year’s major scientific research events. It is hoped that through these related character stories, key events in these scientific fields can be made more prominent.

There are also Chinese scientists in these stories. Zhang Yongzhen, a researcher at the Institute of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Li Lanjuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of Zhejiang University, are also on the list.

Let us see, in this magical year of 2020, scientists all over the world have made

Bell Ringer of the World

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The leader of the World Public Health Organization is uniting the world, and the process of fighting the new crown pneumonia is facing challenges from all sides.

Despite the threat of “stop funding and withdraw from the organization” in the United States, Tedros, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), still withstood the pressure and sounded the alarm for the world when the spread of the new crown began to emerge. Committed to uniting the world to fight the epidemic, making important contributions to curbing the rapid spread of new coronary pneumonia on a global scale.

Guardian of the Polar Regions

Verena Mohaupt

During an unprecedented mission to the Arctic, the logistics supervisor protected scientists from bears, extreme cold, and themselves.

As a logistics officer, Mohaupt participated in the one-year International Arctic Climate Research Multidisciplinary Drift Observation Program (MOSAiC) mission, which is the largest Arctic expedition in history. The project began at the end of 2019, when an icebreaker from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany encountered a huge piece of ice floes in the Siberian Arctic and was frozen in place. In the following year, the ship and a scientific expedition team of about 300 scientists drifted along the ice to collect unprecedented data on climate change. Mohaupt shoulders the task of mission safety and leads her team to design safety training courses for scientists, so that they learn how to avoid the dangers of the Arctic and escort their safety. Thanks to the efforts of her and her team, only one severe frostbite occurred during the one-year mission, making an important contribution to the collection of these important climate data.

Coronavirus sniper

Gonzalo Moratorio

This virologist helped Uruguay successfully deal with the new crown virus.

Moratorio, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute and the University of the Republic of Montevideo, and his colleagues designed a new coronavirus detection program and national response plan to help prevent the new crown epidemic from sweeping across Latin America-including Uruguay’s closest neighbors are Argentina and Brazil. As of December 10, Uruguay is still one of the countries with the lowest number of new crown deaths in the world, with only 87 people.

Mosquito "Commander"

Adi Utarini

This public health researcher led a groundbreaking study that helped eliminate dengue fever.

This year, as the new coronavirus COVID-19 sweeps the world, Adi Utarini is focusing on fighting another deadly infection: dengue fever. In August of this year, her team reported a major research result that showed the way to overcome this disease. Utarini and her colleagues successfully blocked a part of a large Indonesian city by releasing modified mosquitoes (carrying a bacterium called Wolbachia, which can inhibit the virus). The region’s dengue fever cases have been reduced by 77%, making an important contribution to the fight against the “severe disease” dengue fever that ravages the world.

Vaccine leader

Kathrin Jansen

The company executive led her team to successfully develop an mRNA vaccine against the COVID-19 virus at lightning speed.

As the head of the vaccine research and development department of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Jansen led a massive and unprecedented

Genome sharer of the new coronavirus

Zhang Yongzhen

The scientist and his team took the lead in publishing the RNA sequence of the coronavirus on the Internet.