List of modern scientists from Shanghai

Shanghai is the cultural center of the Yangtze Delta Region in China. In late Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi started introducing European science to China. Some notable modern scientists from Shanghai are listed below.

Notations

Notations for memberships of academies

• United States of America:
  • Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences = FM/M-NAS
  • Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering = FM/M-NAE
  • Foreign Member/Member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academies = FM/M-IM
  • Member/Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences = M/F-AAAS
  • Member of the New York Academy of Sciences = M-NYAS
• United Kingdom:
  • Fellow of the Royal Society = FRS
  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering = FRAE
  • Fellow of the British Academy = FBA
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh = FRSE
• Germany:
  • Foreign Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina = FM-GASL
  • Foreign Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities = FM-BASH
• France:
  • Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences = FM-FAS
• Russia:
  • Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences = FM-RAS
  • Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering = FM-RAE
• Republic of China/Taiwan:
  • Academician/Member of the Academia Sinica = M-AS
• People's Republic of China:
  • Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences = FM/M-CAS
  • Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering = FM/M-CAE
• Other:
  • Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences = M-TWAS
  • Member of the International Academy of Astronautics = M-IAA

Notations for personal profiles

• Priority: Hometown > birthplace > study/work (based on traditional Chinese convention)
• Hometown: h.
• Birthplace: b.
• Have trained/studied in Shanghai: s.
• Have worked in Shanghai: w.

Hometown Shanghai

For most Shanghainese scientists and engineers, their hometowns are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces.

• Xie Xuejing (h.Shanghai; b.Beijing): M-CAS/TWCS
• Terence Tao (ancestral hometown Shanghai, born Adelaide, Australia): Fields Medal laureate 2006

Birthplace Shanghai

USA

Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957) Chien-Shiung Wu: Wolf Prize winner (physics, 1978) Edmond H. Fischer: Nobel Prize laureate (Medicine/Physiology, 1992) Charles K. Kao: Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 2009) Andrew Yao: Turing Award laureate (2000) Norman N. Li: Perkin Medal laureate (2000) T. T. Chang: Tyler Prize laureate (1999) Ho-Kwang Mao (毛河光): Balzan Prize laureate (2005) Thomas Huang: M-NAE, F-IEEE, F-SPIE, FM-CAS, FM-CAE Savio L-Y. Woo (胡流源): M-IM/NAE Shien Biau Woo (吴仙标) Sinyan Shen Leo Radom: M-AAS/IAQMS Yu-Chi Ho: M-NAE, LF-IEEE Yuen-Ron Shen

Wei-Liang Chow Stephen Z.D. Cheng: M-NAE Benjamin Clemens Stone Tai Tsun Wu: M-AAAS Wen Tsing Chow Fujia Yang: M-CAS/TWAS Tsung-Ying Shen (沈宗瀛) Shan-Fu Shen (沈申甫): M-NAE/AS/IAA An Wang Taylor Wang Albert Allen Bartlett Bor S. Luh Raphael Tsu Robert C. T. Lee

Mainland China

Yang Fuyu: M-CAS/TWAS Ni Weidou (倪维斗): M-CAE Hu Hesheng: M-CAS/TWAS He Zuoxiu: M-CAS Zhen-yi Wang: M-CAE, FM-FAS

Wu Wenjun (吴文俊): Shaw Prize laureate (2006) Chen Zhu: M-CAS/TWAS, FM-NAS Chen Jiaer: M-CAS/TWAS Zeng Fanyi Zhou Ji: M-CAE

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau

Lap-Chee Tsui (徐立之): M-AS, FRS, FRSC, FM-NAS Ping-Tse Kao

Woo Chia-wei (吴家玮): NAS

See also

• Shanghainese people
  • Xu Guangqi
• List of universities and colleges in Shanghai
• List of modern scientists from Jiangsu
• List of modern scientists from Zhejiang