(Yicai) Sept. 20 -- The sixth World Laureates Forum will be held from Nov. 6 to 8 in Shanghai, with around 300 top foreign scientists including 26 Nobel Prize winners attending.

The attendees will include K. Barry Sharpless, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, Serge Haroche, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2012, and Ada Yonath, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009, the World Laureates Association announced today.

Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will also attend along with Bruce Alberts, who was awarded the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science in 2016, and Laurent Lafforgue, a Fields medalist in 2011.

Attending the forum for the first time will be Robert Tarjan, winner of the Turing Award in 1986, Michael Grätzel, winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2012, Gregory Stephanopoulos, winner of the Eni Prize in 2011, and Dina Katabi, winner of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, which is also known as the Genius Grant.

This year the forum will have more than 20 themed sessions including the Life Science Conference, the Intelligent Science Conference, the Carbon Conference, the Young Scientists Conference, the Astronomy Sub-Forum, the Quantum Sub-Forum, and the Mobius Forum.

The World Laureates Forum will also have around 60 seminars on mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, medicine, neuroscience, energy science, materials science, intelligent science, information technology, and economics. It will also hold for the first time a Young Scientist hub as an independent field for young scientists to communicate with each other.

Editor: Tom Litting