Chinese liquor brand hires Nobel prize winners

Chinese baijiu brand TingHua has hired two Nobel prize winners Ferid Murad and Arieh Warshel as Chief Scientists.

Born in the US state of Indiana in 1936, Ferid Murad was a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.

Arieh Warshel received his Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.

Murad said that by using interdisciplinary scientific methods, he will guide the team to study and verify wider application of substances such as nitric oxide in daily life circumstances including liquor making.

Meanwhile, Warshel believes that the scientific research results achieved by his team will provide multidimensional references for further improvements in the brewing technology of Chinese liquor including TingHua baijiu.