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Friends and colleagues gathered at the official residence of the Consul General of France to witness Professor Philippe Ciarlet’s official elevation to the rank of Officier in the Order of the Legion d'Honneur on 5 June.
A seminar co-organised by CityU and the Beijing-Hong Kong Academic Exchange Centre on 1 June was held to promote the State Science and Technology Awards.
In May 2002, I joined a delegation to Oslo, Sweden, organized by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. It happened that the Nobel Prize Committee had organized an exhibition in celebration of its 100th anniversary and I came across a famous saying of Lord Ernest Rutherford, the 1908 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry: "We haven't the money, so we've got to think." That got me thinking about Hong Kong.