The five winners of the 2023 World Laureates Association Prize (WLA Prize) 
received their awards for their ground-breaking achievements in computer 
science or mathematics and life science or medicine on Nov. 6 at the opening 
ceremony of the 6th WLA Forum held in China's financial hub Shanghai, the 
forum's permanent site. 

Initiated by the World Laureates Association, the WLA Prize is an annual 
international science prize established in Shanghai in 2021 and exclusively 
funded by venture capital and private equity firm HongShan. The WLA Prize, with 
an award of 10 million yuan for each prize, aims to recognize and support 
eminent researchers and technologists worldwide for contributions to the two 
categories of computer science or mathematics and life science or medicine.

"This is a truly exceptional honor for me, a level of recognition the magnitude 
of which I never dreamt of," said Prof. Arkadi Nemirovski, one of the two 
laureates of the WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics. Prof. Yurii E. 
Nesterov, the other laureate, considered receiving this prize "as a recognition 
for our life-time achievements."

Arkadi Nemirovski is from the U.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, and Yurii 
Nesterov is from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. They won the 
WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics "for their seminal work in convex 
optimization theory."

Daniela Rhodes from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the 
United Kingdom, Karolin Luger from the University of Colorado Boulder, the 
United States, and Timothy J. Richmond from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, were named 
the winners of the 2023 WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine "for elucidating 
the structure of the nucleosome at the atomic level."

"They have left an indelible mark on the history of our understanding of 
chromosome structure," said Prof. Randy Schekman, Chair of 2023 WLA Prize 
Selection Committee for Life Science or Medicine.

The award offers an account of their decades-long research journey in 
elucidating the structure of the nucleosome. 

"Science is a lonely, selfish, excruciatingly frustrating, and obsessive 
occupation," said Prof. Karolin Luger. For Prof. Timothy J. Richmond, "success 
in groundbreaking research also requires a great deal of patience and 
perseverance." But "to do research is a great privilege," said Prof. Daniela 
Rhodes. 

The 6th WLA Forum, which is also livestreamed online, attracted the attendance 
of over 300 participants, including the world laureates, academicians, senior 
scientists, young scientists, and professionals from 25 countries and regions. 

Both the inaugural WLA Prize laureates and the new winners attended the forum, 
participating in a series of events like the WLA Prize Laureates Lecture and 
the WLA Prize Laureates Roundtable, engaging in meaningful conversations with 
other scientists and sharing insightful inspirations with the scholars across 
the globe.

Source: World Laureates Forum (WLA Forum)

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   Caption: Five WLA Prize Laureates received medals at the 2023 WLA Prize 
Award Ceremony of the 6th World Laureates Forum on November 6.