The Nobel Prize is approaching. Compared to the heated discussions about and high expectations for the Nobel Prize for Literature, only very little attention gets paid to the science category as there is no Chinese nomination in that field. This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine once again went to a Japanese scientist, bringing Japan's Nobel number to the grand total of 19. However, as neighboring country to this Nobel giant, China has just got one Nobel Literature Prize to add to its resume. Though China consists of the largest number of Doctors in the world and tackles the most difficult Olympic mathematic problems known to mankind, Chinese scientists just seem to be slipping further and further away from that ultimate prize, the Nobel Prize.

Chinese experiences with the Nobel Prize

American-Chinese physicist Chen-Ning Franklin Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee studied the "Law of Parity Conservation and Other Symmetry Laws in Physics" and with that won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957.

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