The Awarding Ceremony of Taiwan’s 2020 Tang Prize, Asia’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize, will be held online at 6 a.m. (GMT) on Saturday, November 20, 2021. Influential British primatologist and pioneering conservationist Jane Goodall won the 2020 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development. Meanwhile, British Australian Marc Feldmann, along with Charles Dinarello (US) and Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Japan), jointly won the 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science. The Tang Prize Foundation will livestream the entire ceremony, which features eight laureates receiving their awards and making acceptance speeches. Viewers all over the world are cordially invited to this celebration of the 2020 laureates’ outstanding achievements.
The original plan after the 2020 winners were announced in June last year was to have all the laureates go to Taiwan around the end of September to participate in the 2020 Tang Prize Week, where the awarding ceremony and other relevant activities would take place. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tang Prize Foundation, out of consideration for the laureates’ safety and health, decided to cancel the awards ceremony for the first time in its history.
Given that the past awarding ceremonies were held on-site and only those with invitations were allowed to attend, the Tang Prize Foundation hopes that this year’s virtual ceremony will transcend geographical boundaries, bring people together, and attract the interest of audiences worldwide. In addition, two online activities, “Guess where the Tang Prize laureates will be when they go online to accept the awards” and “No dress code—new ideas for what to wear in an awarding ceremony,” will be launched prior to the awarding ceremony. More information will be made available on the Tang Prize’s Facebook Page soon.
The 2020 Awarding Ceremony, held against the backdrop of a global pandemic, will have a special significance, as every laureate has helped ease this health crisis in their own way. Please visit the Tang Prize’s official YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/theTangPrize/featured) or Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/tangprize) at 6 a.m. (GMT), November 20, to watch the awarding ceremony. Each laureate’s vision and dedication to their work is truly touching, inspiring greater interesting in building a sustainable future.
