Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)

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The Nobel Prize for Natural Science and the
FirstRate University in the World

  

  • Received:2009-06-01 Online:2010-11-15 Published:2010-11-15

Abstract:

One of the symbols of the firstrate university in the world is to own numerous winners of the Nobel Prize for natural science. As long as we trace the personal experience of the winner of the Nobel Prize for natural science, we can get a fact that these science elites, before getting a prize, accept their high education, including working and obtaining the degrees of undergraduates and postgraduates, almost in the firstrate university in the world. And a survey of their workingsites for researches also shows that they are highly concentrated in the firstrate university. This essay, by analyzing the general education, the integration of scientific study and postgraduate training, the subject of superiority, and the highquality teaching faculty, all of which are characteristic of the firstrate university in the world, discloses the unique pattern and mechanism of nurturing creative talents in these universities, describing in these universities, how the winner of the Nobel Prize for natural science is trained and molded step by step. And the author, by drawing on the successful experience of the firsrate university in the world, has a full discussion of the basic reasons, faced problems, existing differences and achieved paths of China' s founding of the firstrate university in the world. He holds that, compared with the firstrate university in the world, China' s difference of famous or key universities not only embodies some of internationally accepted reference data, but also displays the shortage of the topgrade scholar and master who enjoy prestige in the world, the absence of the distinguished subject of specialty and superiority, the scarcity of the highlevel achievement in originality, the student' s inadaptability to the demand of social, economic development, especially the dated running principle, running pattern and management style. Finally he points out that, by reform and innovation, China will break the old running, administrative mode, and realize the greatleapforward development. It is quite possible, in contemporary China, to found the firstrate university in the world. China will definitely produce the firstrate university in the world which possesses its own winners of the Nobel Prize.

Key words: Nobel Prize for natural science; first-rate unisity in the world; general education; integration of scientific study and postgraduate training

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