张弥曼2018年“世界杰出女科学家成就奖”获奖感言

前几天，在“世界杰出女科学家奖”颁奖典礼上中国科学家张弥曼获得了“世界杰出女科学家成就奖”。

张弥曼教授是第六位荣膺该奖项的中国女科学家。她的创新研究工作为水生脊椎动物向陆地的演化提供了化石证据，推动了人类对生物进化史的认知进入新的阶段，也让中国“她”智慧又一次在世界顶尖科技舞台上大放异彩。

颁奖现场，82岁的张弥曼用法、英、俄、瑞典语还有中文做了优雅的致辞。

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Speech by Professor Mee-mann Chang after Winning the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards 2018

Bonsoir, Messieurs, Mesdames, Mesdames, Messieurs. Don’t expect too much from me. Je ne parle (pas) francais, je peux lire un peu…when it’s necessary, mais je n’ai parle pas.  

I’m immensely honored to be awarded this year’s L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award. But compared with the laureates from the past years and this year and many worthy candidates, I truly, [am] humbled, I should say, to receive this award with deep appreciation and gratitude. 

On this occasion, it is impossible for me not to reflect on my career in Vertebrate Paleontology. I started to study Paleontology some 60 years ago when I was a student in the Lomonosov Moscow State University. But at that time, my choice of career was even not my own; it was arranged – much as an arranged marriage. We even have a saying in Chinese, “To get married first, then have the courtship.” In Chinese, we say “Xian Jie Hun, Hou Lian Ai” Some of you, I think, understand Chinese. I want to thank my Russian and Swedish mentors…for guiding my early years. 

I want to thank all my colleagues – past and present – in China and elsewhere for their help to me over years. And I also want to thank my family for their support over the years, especially my daughter, for leaving her to her grandmother when she was only one month old. When she came back to me, she was ten, and she never complained. And finally, thank all of you for this wonderful evening. 

Thanks. Merci and Xie Xie. 

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