South Korea: Nobel Prize Leading Candidate: Professor Ho-Wang Lee’s Career

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South Korea: Nobel Prize Leading Candidate: Professor Ho-Wang Lee’s Career

September 24, 2021

Korea / Seoul Economy:

Leading candidate for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The only Korean named is Lee Ho Wang, a 93-year-old professor emeritus at Korea University.

Professor Emeritus Lee:

He has been a Nobel Prize candidate for 20 years.

A researcher who is also called “Korean Pasteur”.

March 1976

In the Hantan River basin of Gyeonggi Province,
From the collected lung tissue of the striped field mouse
Discovered the pathogen and immune system of nephropathy hemorrhagic fever for the first time in the world.

Korean media

https://www.recordchina.co.jp/b882822-s25-c30-d0195.html

Father of Virus Research’, Professor Emeritus Ho-Wang Lee, selected as a strong candidate for the 2021 Nobel

professor Ho-Wang Lee,
professor at the Department of Microbiology at Korea University College of Medicine,

was named a strong candidate for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Professor Emeritus Lee, who discovered the Hantan virus for the first time in the world and developed a preventive vaccine,

is a world-renowned scholar who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for the past 20 years. 　

According to Korea University on the 23rd, Professor Emeritus Lee

was selected as the ‘2021 Citation Laureates’ announced by Clarivate Analytics, a global academic information analysis institution.

To date, 59 researchers nominated by Clarivate have actually been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Professor Emeritus Lee

In 1979,
he was selected as the highest Civil Service Medal in the United States,

in 2002
the Order of Science and Technology Creation,

in 2009
the Seo Jae-pil Medical Award,

in 2018
as a Korean Science and Technology Meritor, and in 2002 as a foreign member of the American Academy of Sciences (NAS), and in 2009 as an honorary member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences.

Meanwhile,
a total of 16 researchers were selected from six countries including the United States, France, Japan, and Singapore as the best cited researchers this year,

and from 2002 to this year, five researchers were selected from Korea.

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