Sun Hung Kai Properties and CUHK presented a public lecture on 21 November on ‘Pursuit of My Dreams for Half-a-Century’ by Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. The lecture attracted about 700 academics, students and members of the public.


In his lecture, Professor Negishi reminisced about how he had overcome many increasingly challenging competitions over the years to be finally recognized with the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The statistical odds of winning a Nobel Prize is estimated to be 1/10,000,000. One way of looking at this infinitesimally small figure is to think of it as winning ‘one-in-ten’ competitions seven times in a row. His competition level must continuously move up. After winning the fifth- or sixth-level competition, he may already be vying for a Nobel Prize or something equivalent to it in some other areas.