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SCHOLAR WINS PRESTIGIOUS SCIENCE AWARD

Lu Ke, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been honored with this year’s Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award for his research in nano-metal materials, making him the second-ever Chinese scientist to win the prestigious award.

Lu, born in 1965, was elected as a CAS academician in 2003 and has been director of the Shenyang National Laboratory of Materials Science since 2018. That same year, he became vice governor of Liaoning Province in northeast China. The scholar is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and

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