Pierre Braunstein, our Head of the Chemical Division and research director of CNRS, Strasbourg, France, is winner of the Franco-Portuguese 2019 prize attributed by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (RPQ). This is a biennial prize that distinguishes outstanding Portuguese and French chemical researchers, every two years.

Dear Academician,

Please find here the synthetic report of the Frontier Forum 2020 (CAS - EURASC) written by Prof. Paul Tréguer and Prof. Louis Legendre (EurASc) and by Prof. Jing Zhang (CAS).

Professor Reihnard Genzel (Honorary Member of EurASc), from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching (Germany) and University of California, Berkeley (USA), is the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy”.