1996年美国有5位科学家荣获诺贝尔奖。同年11月他们在美国国家科学基金会主持的新闻发布会上发出警世之言,希望国人重视基础科学研究。化学奖获得者,休斯顿赖斯大学的理查德·斯莫利指出,由于地球上人口不断增长,可能到下世纪中叶就超过120亿人。因此,新技术、新能源、新材料和新型农业 In 1996, five scientists in the United States won the Nobel Prize. In November of the same year, they issued a cautious phrase at a press conference hosted by the National Science Foundation and hoped that people would value basic science research. Richard Smolley, winner of the Chemistry Prize and Rice University of Houston, points out that due to the growing population on Earth, it is likely to reach more than 12 billion by the middle of the next century. Therefore, new technologies, new energy sources, new materials and new types of agriculture