Charles Chen, co-founder of Tencent Holdings and founder of the Yidan Prize Foundation. ... [+] Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LPThe Yidan Prize Foundation, a global philanthropic educational foundation set up by one of the co-founders of China’s Tencent Holdings, on Friday announced three winners of its 2000 Yidan Prize. Stanford University Professor Carl Wieman was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Research, while Lucy Lake and Angeline Murimirwa from the Campaign for Female Education received the Yidan Prize for Education Development – the first team to be granted a Yidan Prize since its inception in 2017. The laureates will be recognized at the Yidan Prize Awards Presentation Ceremony and the Yidan Prize Annual Summit held virtually on Dec. 7. The Yidan Prize 2020 laureates were chosen by the Yidan Prize Judging Committee in a five-month judging process.

Source: Forbes September 28, 2020 00:00 UTC