Danish professor Flemming Besenbacher has received the Award for International Scientific Cooperation by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Danish embassy announced. It is the highest award a foreign researcher can receive in the Chinese academic system and had never been awarded to a Dane.
Besenbacher has played an important role in developing of nano science at Aarhus University in Denmark and has collaborated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1990. The Danish professor, known as Mr Nano, received the prestigious Einstein Professorship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He is also honorary doctor of at least nine Chinese universities.
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