Nature's top ten figures of the year announced that Pan Jianwei, the father of quantum, and David Liu, a Chinese, were selected

2017 is near the end, and the top ten people of the year of Nature magazine are officially announced These ten people have different identities, including outstanding scientists, little girls who have conquered the disease, lawyers who care about women's rights, and "villain" politicians In the same way, they have had a huge impact on the development of relevant science in the coming year Credit: Eric Michael Johnson, the "father of quantum", pan Jianwei, pan Jianwei, is China's "father of quantum" After returning from Europe, he has driven the development of China's quantum technology and created one breakthrough after another In July this year, pan Jianwei led a team of the Chinese University of science and technology to report that they broke the record of quantum teleportation, transferring the quantum state of one photon on earth to another photon on a 1400km high altitude satellite Two months later, the team used the satellite to send entangled photons to Beijing and Vienna at the same time, enabling unconditional secure video communication between the two places Academician pan Jianwei is undoubtedly the light of Chinese people Under his leadership, quantum communication technology in China has developed rapidly For thousands of years, the unconditional secure communication that human beings have been pursuing will become possible Credit: David Liu, the "gene corrector" of Martin adolfsson, may have been born with excellent qualities His father is an aerospace engineer, and his mother is a professor of physics After they immigrated from Taiwan to the United States, they met at the University of California, Berkeley Influenced by his family, Liu won the second place of Westinghouse Science Talent Award in high school During his undergraduate study at Harvard University, Liu studied with Professor E J Corey, the Nobel Laureate in chemistry, and graduated first He then completed his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, under the guidance of Professor Peter g Schultz David Liu is dedicated to gene editing technology, and has very bold ideas and attempts He led the team to adjust CRISPR system, using an enzyme synthesized in the laboratory to realize the transformation of DNA base A-T to G-C through chemical methods This new method has been widely used in wheat, zebrafish and mice, and in the repair of human diseases Credit: the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics of Marica branchesi, the "co-founder" of Jim Watson / AFP / Getty, has once again made gravitational waves a hot topic of public concern It is not a simple thing to detect gravitational waves Behind the publication of the results, the efforts of many scientists are gathered Among them, astronomer Marica branchesi has made great contributions She linked the unconnected link between observational astronomy and gravitational wave research, and joined more than 3500 researchers to capture the details of the collision of two neutron stars Credit: T J Kirkpatrick / Redux / eyevine "living witness" Emily Whitehead Emily Whitehead became the first child to receive cancer immunotherapy five years ago During the treatment, she experienced a lot of pain and even nearly died Fortunately, with the help of car-t therapy, Emily finally conquered the disease Of course, this luck comes from the development of medical technology and the efforts of medical experts Now, the FDA has officially approved car-t therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and we hope that more children will be as healthy as Emily Credit: after Martin h Simon / Redux / eyevine, Scott Pruitt, the "institution severer", served as the director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he revoked several environmental protection related laws and regulations, reduced the funding of EPA funded scientists, and dismissed many members of the Scientific Advisory Committee His policies have caused scientists' unease and dissatisfaction, which will undoubtedly hinder the development of science Credit: Wolter Peeters / the Sydney Morning Herald "error detective" Jennifer Byrne Jennifer Byrne is dedicated to finding papers with errors or possible falsifications With her efforts, many articles have been withdrawn In addition, together with computer scientist Cyril Labb é, she has released an online program that can be used to automatically detect errors in gene related papers Credit: Heinz Peter Bader / Reuters "nuclear Tracker" lassina zerbo lassina zerbo is the executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) to fully promote nuclear non-proliferation Credit: Victor Cruz Atienza, the "earthquake Hunter" of Oswaldo Ruiz, who experienced the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in Mexico when he was a child, has become the director of the Department of Seismology of the school of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico He has been studying earthquake models and accurately predicted the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Mexico City in September this year Credit: Ann olivarius, the "law champion" of Alistair Hilton, has a number of studies and surveys that show that women are not treated equally in academia What's more outrageous is that women are also sexually harassed and assaulted at work Ann olivarius is a lawyer who has dealt with a number of cases of sexual harassment and aggression in academic institutions and actively strives for the equal status of women in the academic community Credit: Christopher Herwig for nature "sesame initiator" Khaled Toukan Khaled Toukan helped guide the establishment of the Middle East Experimental Science and application synchrotron radiation device (sesame), making the turbulent Middle East occupy a place in the world's scientific research map.