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.[1] 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.
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- Xie Xuejing (h.Shanghai; b.Beijing): M-CAS/TWCS
- Terence Tao (ancestral hometown Shanghai, born Adelaide, Australia): Fields Medal laureate 2006
Birthplace Shanghai
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See also
- Shanghainese people
- List of universities and colleges in Shanghai
- List of modern scientists from Jiangsu
- List of modern scientists from Zhejiang
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