2000年底,日本在其第二 期科学技术基本计划案中 提出了一个具体目标:在 未来50年内,将实现30名日本人 获得诺贝尔奖的目标。日本政府拨 出总额24兆日元的政府研究开发 投资资金。这一年,筑波大学名誉 教授白川英树荣获了诺贝尔化学 奖。这一目标一经报道,顿时引起 日本和国际科学界的广泛关注和如 潮评论。赞赏者有之,不屑者有 之,冷嘲热讽者也有之。 次年10月,名古屋大学的野 依良治教授继白川英树之后,再获 诺贝尔化学奖。再次年,即2002 年10月8日,东京大学名誉教授 小柴昌俊和美国科学家里卡尔多· At the end of 2000, Japan set forth a specific target in its second basic science and technology plan: the goal of obtaining the Nobel Prize for 30 Japanese people in the next 50 years. The Japanese government allocated a total of 24 trillion yen in government research and development investment funds. This year, Hiroyuki Shirakawa, honorary professor of University of Tsukuba, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As soon as this goal was reported, it immediately aroused widespread concern and commentators in Japan and the international scientific community. Appreciate those who disdain those, cynical who also have it. The following year in October, Nagoya University Professor Yoshitomo Noriyoshi Shirakawa tree, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Once again, on October 8, 2002, Honorary Assistant Professor at Tokyo University, Masatoshi Koizumi, and American scientist Riccardo