Basic Science Lifetime Award

The Basic Science Lifetime Award has been awarded yearly since 2023 to extraordinary scientists whose work in basic science has been both outstanding and innovative and have, over the course of the past thirty years or more, brought about fundamental change in his or her discipline.^[1] There have been awards in Mathematics, Physics, Theoretical Computer and Information Sciences, and Information Science and Engineering. The prizes are awarded at the International Congress of Basic Science, held every year in Beijing in July.