Zhejiang University alumni

Wu Han (PRC)

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Wu Han was a party official of the in the .

Biography

Wu Han was born in Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang in 1909. 1928, he studied at Zhijiang University . He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1934 and joined the faculty of this university.

Wu Han was commissioned by Mao's government to write an article about Hai Rui, a Ming dynasty official who criticized the Jiajing Emperor to his face and was resultantly sacked. The article on Hai Rui appeared in the Chinese Publication the ''People's Daily'' on May 16, 1959, and was interpreted by many readers and intellectuals as a political parallel to the situation of Peng Dehuai. Peng had been Mao Zedong's minister of defense, but fell into disgrace in 1959 when he led the criticism of the Great Leap Forward, a program of Mao's which was intended to rapidly industrialize China but ultimately amounted to failure on almost every level.

The Hai Rui article, which originally sought to rehabilitate Hai Rui's reputation and qualify him as a political hero, was published at a time when Mao was actually encouraging popular critiques of the Great Leap Forward. However, as the popularity and distribution of the article expanded , Mao finally became aware of the fact that many people allegorically equated Hai Rui with Peng Dehuai, and that they therefore associated Mao himself with the un-approachable Ming emperor. Moreover, by 1965 , Mao recognized that the popularity of ''Hai Rui Dismissed from Office'' created a direct threat to his reputation, so on November 10 he authorized a public attack on the play and attempted to debase Hai Rui's legacy as an attempt to discredit Peng Dehuai.

Wu Han himself, who a few years earlier was asked by his political superiors to compose the article, had, by March 1966, become the subject of harsh government criticism as a direct result of his contribution. His particular predicament is often chosen to represent the Chinese government's frequent practice of reversing its verdicts under Mao's control . Wu Han himself committed suicide while in prison in 1969.

Wang Yuan (mathematician)

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Wang Yuan , or Yuan Wang, an academician of Chinese Academy of Science, is a renowned mathematician, educator and popular science writer. He is the former president of Chinese Mathematical Society, and the head of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Life

Wang was born in Lanxi County, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. His father was a magistrate in the local government. Because of the Japanese invasion , Wang's family had to move away from Zhejiang Province, and finally arrived at the southeast city Kunming in Guizhou Province in 1938. 1942, Wang's father rose to the chief secretary of the Academia Sinica. 1946 after the Japanese surrender, his family moved to the capital city - Nanjing.

Wang entered Yingshi University in Hangzhou, and graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University in 1952. He then earned a position in the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica. Hua Loo Keng is considered as his main academic advisor and one of his closest cooperators. 1946-1949, he was the acting director of the institute. Wang also studied in USA for a period of time.

1966, Wang's career was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution. Wang could not work for more than five years until 1972. During this interval, Wang was harassed and put through interrogation.

1978, Wang was back to his professorship, in the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science. 1980, he was elected to be an academician of Chinese Academy of Science. 1988-1992, he was the president of the Chinese Mathematical Society.

Research

Wang quite focuses on the area of number theory, especially in the Goldbach Conjecture. Sieve methods and circle methods are often applied by him. He obtained a series of important results in the field of number theory.

Wang You

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WANG You , also known as Yu WANG, 1910 Jun 7 - 1997 May 6, was a chemist and biochemist. He was a pioneer of antibiotics and biochemistry studies in China .

Life

Wang was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He first studied applied chemistry at Zhejiang University. He went to Nanjing and graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Jinling University in 1931. He obtained his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1937.

Between Nov 1952 and Jul 1984, chronologically, Wang was the deputy director, acting director, director of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science .

Wang participated and played an important role in the artificial synthesis of cattle insulin. He also made contributions to modern Chinese biochemical industries.

Membership

Member, Chinese Academy of Science
Foreign member, French Academy of Sciences
Foreign member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Honorary member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Wang Jianzhou

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Wang Jianzhou , is the current Chairman and CEO of China Mobile.

Biography

Wang was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province in December 1948. Wang did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University . Wang received a master degree of industrial management from ZJU in 1985. Wang also obtained a doctorate in business administration from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Wang was the Chief Director of the Posts and Telecommunications Bureau of Zhejiang Province in Hangzhou. In 1996, Wang became a director in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of People's Republic of China.

In 2001, Wang was appointed to be the President of the China Mobile Communications Corporation.

Tsung-Dao Lee

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Tsung-Dao Lee is a -born physicist, well known for his work on , Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars. In 1957, Lee, at age 31, with received the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the violation of law in weak interaction, which Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally verified. Lee is the second youngest Nobel laureate, and Lee and Yang were the first Chinese Laureates.

Biography

Lee's ancestral hometown is Suzhou, Jiangsu. He was born in Shanghai, China, and received his education in Shanghai and Jiangxi. The first part of his university education began at Zhejiang University, but was interrupted by the war, so he continued at the National Southwestern Associated University in Kunming the next year . Lee went to the University of Chicago in 1946 and completed his PhD with Enrico Fermi. He then worked with collaborators on phase transitions in statistical mechanics and polarons in condensed matter physics. In 1953, he became an assistant professor at Columbia University, and worked mainly in particle physics and field theory. Three years later, at age 29, Lee became the university's youngest full professor. Over the years, Lee has pioneered and developed research ranging from symmetry violations in weak interactions to fields of high energy neutrino physics and RHIC physics. He remains an active member of the Columbia faculty and has held its highest academic rank, University Professor, since 1984. Currently, his interests have turned to the bosonic nature of high Tc superconductivity, the neutrino mapping matrix and new ways to solve Schr?dinger equation.

Educational activities

Soon after the re-establishment of China-American , Lee and his wife, Hui-Chun Jeannette Chin , were able to go to China, where Lee gave a series of lectures and seminars, and organized the CUSPEA .

In 1998, Lee established the Chun-Tsung Endowment in memory of his wife, Hui-Chun Chin, who died 3 years earlier. The Chun-Tsung scholarships, supervised by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia , are awarded to undergraduates, usually in their 2nd or 3rd year, at five universities, which are Fudan University, Lanzhou university, Suzhou University, Beijing University and Taiwan Tsing Hua University. Students selected for such scholarships are named "Chun-Tsung Scholars" .

Personal life

Chin and Lee were married in 1950 and have two sons: and . Lee reads whodunit novels when he does not work on physics. His English given name differs dramatically from the then-existing Chinese Romanizations, such as Wade-Giles and Gwoyeu Romatzyh. Tsung-Dao Lee is also known as T.-D. Lee.

Honours and awards

Awards:
Nobel Prize in Physics
Albert Einstein Award
G. Bude Medal, Collège de France
Galileo Galilei Medal
Order of Merit, Grande Ufficiale, Italy
Science for Peace Prize
China National-International Cooperation Award
Naming of Small Planet 3443 as the T.D. Lee Planet
New York City Science Award
Pope Joannes Paulus Medal
Ministero dell'Interno Medal of the Government of Italy
New York Academy of Science Award
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Japan

Memberships:

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Academia Sinica
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Third World Academy of Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences

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T. Tony Cai

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T. Tony Cai , is an statistician. He is the current Dorothy Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the winner of 2008 COPSS Presidents' Award.

Career

Cai was born in Rui'an, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. In 1986, Cai graduated from the Departemnt of Mathematics, Hangzhou University when he was only 18 years old . In 1989, Cai received MSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Cai earned PhD from Cornell University .

Cai has four brothers and one sister. His sister Tianxi Cai is also working on statistics, and is an associate professor of biostatistics at Harvard University. His brother Tianwu Michael Cai, also majored in mathematics is a vice-president of Goldman Sachs.

Honors and awards

COPSS Presidents' Award 2008, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006.

T. C. Hsu

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Professor T.C. Hsu , , was a Chinese American cell biologist. He was the 13^th president of American Society for Cell Biology, and known as the ''Father of Mammalian Cytogenetics'' .

Life

Hsu was born Tao-Chiuh Hsu in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang University. 1948, he went to USA, and obtained PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1951.

He determined the accurate haploid chromosome number of Homo sapiens and characterized the human karyotype. His historic paper "Mammalian chromosomes ''in vitro'' - the karyotype of Man" was published in 1952.

He worked in the laboratory of Charles Pomerat at UTMB in the early 50s where he discovered an improved method of preparing chromosomes that led to the accurate identification of 23 pairs of chromosomes in human somatic cells. He was president of the American Society for Cell Biology and served on faculty at M.D. Anderson for more than 30 years. He was a UTMB GSBS Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient in 1996. He is also a recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence.

His autobiography was published in the ''American Journal of Medical Genetics'' 59:304-325 .

He died in Houston, Texas, USA.

Sun Zhonghuan

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Sun Zhonghuan , is a politician. He is the former Mayor of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the current Chairman of the .

Career

Sun was born in July 1948 in Yuyao, , Zhejiang Province. Sun studied in Hangzhou University and the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Sun's career includes:
February 1969 - February 1974, soldier of People's Liberation Army 5170 Branch;
December 1983 - October 1985, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Lanxi, , Zhejiang Province;
November 1989 - March 1993, Secretary of Yongkang, Jinhua City;
Martch 1993 - September 1994, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Trade and Industry Bureau ;
September 1994 - April 1995, Deputy Secretary and of the Zhejiang Provincial Trade and Industry Bureau;
April 1995 - August 1996, General Secretary and Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Trade and Industry Bureau;
August 1996 - May 2000, General Secretary of ;
May 2000 - January 2002, General Secretary of Taizhou City and the Chief Director of the ;
January 2002 - February 2003, General Secretary and Chief Director of the Zhejiang Economic and Trade Commission
April 2004 - January 2005, Deputy Secretary, Vice-mayor and Acting Mayor of Hangzhou;
February 2005 - April 2007, Deputy Secretary and Mayor of Hangzhou;
April 2007 - present, Chairman of the .

Song Xi

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SONG Xi , also known as Sung Shee or Sung Hsi, was an important Taiwan historian, geographer, educator and governmental official. Song was the 4^th President of the Chinese Culture University.

Life

October 6, 1920, Song was born in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China. He studied history and geography at Zhejiang University and obtained his bacholar's and master's degrees there. His master thesis discussed the relationship between merchants and scholar-bureaucrats, governmant in Song Dynasty. He also obtained a master's degree from the Department of History, Columbia University, with dissertation ''Chinese Labour in the Transvaal, 1904-1907''. Song obtained PhD from Chinese Culture University in June, 1989 . Song also received a honorary doctor's degree from Korean Konkuk University.

Song came to Taiwan together with Chang Chi-yun. He had a long career in governmental offices including the research institute of national defence. He was the director of the Department of History and then Institute of History, Chinese Culture University. He also was the 4th President of the Chinese Culture University.

Song was a famous historian especially in the field of Song dynasty history.

March 22, 2007, Song died from a car accident.

Works

Song's studies mainly were in Chinese history especially Song Dynasty history.
《宋史研究論叢》
《旅美論叢》
《中國史學論集》
《清末華工對南非屈蘭斯瓦爾金礦開採的貢獻》
《中國現代史論叢》
《華學研究論集》
《宋代學術精神之探討》

Song Weiping

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SONG Weiping , is a real estate and billionaire. He is the co-founder and current president of China Greentown .

Career

Song was born in Shenxian County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 1967. 1982, he graduated from the Department of History, Hangzhou University . 1982-1987, he taught in a party school. 1987, he went to Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, and worked in a computer company as a secretary.

1994, Song went back to Hangzhou, he founded China Greentown, a real estate company, with his wife Xia Yibo . Currently, China Greentown is a leading real estate company in Zhejiang Province, Shanghai and Beijing. Song also invests in football team. He founded his own soccer team and club, and named them after Greentown .

According to the recent 2007 Forbes Mainland China Rich List , Song and his wife were ranked No.41 with 9.75 billion .

Shiyi Chen

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Shiyi Chen , is the current Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Engineering and Science, Mechanical Engineering and Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University.

He is also the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Director of the Center for Computational Science & Engineering, Peking University .

Career

Chen studied mechanics at Zhejiang University from January 1978 to January 1982. He did his postgraduate study at Peking University.

He was a post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory USA from June 1987 to February 1990. From February 1990 to December 1990, he was a research scientist at the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware. From May 1990 till December 1993, he was a visiting faculty in the Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University. December 1990 - November 1992, he was an Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. November 1992 - September 1994, he was a research staff and group leader in the same lab. September 1994 - January 2000, he was a research staff member at the IBM Research Division. Then he started his career at the Johns Hopkins University. July 1997 - January 2000, he was also the Deputy Director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Chen did some outstanding research in lattice gas methods in which he created important analysis approach and led engineering applications. He also did contributions to the high performance computing. He did fundamental studies in the theory of turbulence. For these reasons, he was elected as a fellow of American Physical Society and Institute of Physics .

Shi Zhongci

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SHI Zhongci , also known as Zhong-Ci SHI, is a computational mathematician of the People's Republic of China, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Career

Shi was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in December 5, 1933. 1955, He graduated from the Ningbo Middle School. He first studied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, under the guidance of Professor Su Buqing. Shi then was transferred to Fudan University together with Su Buqing.

After graduating from the department of mathematics of Fudan University in 1955, Shi became one of first Chinese visiting scholars in Soviet Union, and studied computational mathematics at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow from 1956 till 1960.

Upon returning in 1960, Shi served in the institute of computational technology of CAS. From 1965 to 1986, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematics of University of Science and Technology of China. From 1987 to 1991, he became the director of computation center of CAS. From 1997, Shi served as the Dean of School of Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is now a research fellow of computation center of CAS, and the director of national key laboratory of scientific and engineering computation. Shi currently is a vice-dean of College of Sciences, Zhejiang University, and a reseacher at the Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University .

Academic positions

Chairman of Academic Committee, the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing
Chairman of Academic Committee, the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing
Chief Scientist, National Key Project for Fundemental Research

Shi Yuzhu

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Shi Yuzhu , is a noted entrepreneur, billionaire, and software engineer.

Career

Shi was born in Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China in 1962. Shi graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University. He did his postgraduate study in the Department of Software Engineering at Shenzhen University.

In 1989, Shi founded his own software company by only 4,000 Chinese Yuan. In 1992, he founded the Giant Group . 1998, Shi went bankrupt thus disappeared from the public. 2007, Shi became a billionaire in US dollars.

Wealth

In 2007's Forbes Mainland China Rich List , Shi was ranked No.24 with a net worth of 16.75 .

According to the Hurun Report 2007, Shi has a net worth as high as 28 billion Chinese Yuan , and Shi with his daughter Shi Jing together has a wealth above 41 billion Yuan .

Shi Yafeng

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Shi Yafeng , is a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He's an expert on geography and glaciology, and regarded as the "Father of Chinese Glaciology" .

Life

Shi was born in Haimen, Jiangsu Province on Mar.21 1919. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University. He led the Batoula Glacier Investigation Team, Glaciology and Geocryology Institute of Chinese Academe Science in 1978, which was the first modern Chinese team to systematically investigate glaciers.

Chronologically, he was a researcher, the vice-director, , honorary director of the Lanzhou Glacier Frozen Earth Institute , Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Works

monograph: ''Glacier Conspectus of China''
monograph: ''Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology in China''

Shao Xianghua

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Shao Xianghua , is a scientist and . He is considered as a pioneer of modern Chinese metallurgical engineering.

Career

Shao was born on February 22, 1913 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Shao graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University in 1932. He went to study in and received M.Sc from the University of London in 1938.

1949, he became the Chief Engineer of the newly founded Anshan Iron and Steel Group, which is one of the most important steel producer in China. 1958, he was transferred to the prestigious China Iron & Steel Research Institute and became a research fellow there.

Shao played an important role in both Chinese rare earths and rare metal industries. He is an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering , which is rare among Chinese scientists and engineers.

Pan Yunhe

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Pan Yunhe is a specialist in artificial intelligence and geographic information systems.

Pan did his undergraduate study at Tongji University in Shanghai, and his postgraduate study at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. From 1995 to 2006, he was the president of Zhejiang University. He was assigned vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on June 7, 2006.

Pan Jiazheng

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PAN Jiazheng , is a well-known hydraulic engineer and scientist.

Introduction

Pan is current Honorary President of the Chinese National Committee on Large Dams. He's an academician and the Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering , and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He's the former Chief Director of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering , and the technical chief for the Three Gorges Dam.

Pan was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in 12 November 1927. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University in 1950.

Min Zhu

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Min Zhu is the co-founder and former president and chief technical officer of WebEx.

Zhu received his bachelor degree from Zhejiang University. He also holds an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University. He developed his technology expertise at the IBM Scientific Center in Palo Alto, California. He was also the deputy to the chief technical officer of Price Waterhouse and the vice president of Expert Edge, a software design company. In 1991, Zhu co-founded Future Labs, one of the first companies to produce multi-point document collaboration software. acquired Future Labs in 1996, and Zhu went on to co-found WebEx with Subrah Iyar.

On May 13, 2005, Zhu resigned from WebEx and left the United States. Zhu continues to serve as a science and technology advisor to the municipal government of , a member of the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation, a board director of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association and a partner at New Enterprise Associates.

In September 2005, NEA announced plans to back Chinese venture firm Northern Light. This venture fund is raising a first, $100 million fund this fall. NEA general partner Scott Sandell described his firm's relationship to Northern Light as akin to a "special LP," whereby Northern Light will receive part of its institutional backing from NEA and provide NEA with deal flow. The new firm, founded by Zhu along with Chinese entrepreneurs Feng Deng and Yan Ke, will share office space in China with NEA venture partner Xiaodong Jiang.

Zeleny legal dispute

On May 13, 2005, WebEx announced that Zhu was stepping down as WebEx's CTO and retiring to China, where he would serve as a "WebEx Fellow." This was amid a spate of lawsuits between the Zhu family, WebEx and their former business partner Michael Zeleny for various torts, including breach of contract and defamation. In the course of these, Zeleny made public online that a complaint for childhood sexual abuse had been made by Zhu's daughter Erin Zhu, Zeleny's former domestic and business partner, and alleged that Zhu diverted WebEx assets to settle that complaint. Zhu denied these claims in court records, and WebEx sued Zeleny for defamation. Zeleny's claims have since been settled out of court and the WebEx counter-claim dropped.

Lu Yongxiang

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Lu Yongxiang , aka Yung-Hsiang LU, is the current President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Lu was born in April 1942 in Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Lu studied in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, and majored at hydrodynamics . He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1964, and became a lecture in his department at ZJU. 1979, Lu was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen, West Germany. Lu obtained his doctorate in 1981, based on his dissertation ''Entwicklung vorgesteuerter Proportionalventile mit 2-Wege-Einbauventil als Stellglied und mit ger?teinterner Rückführung. Aachen: Techn. Hochsch.; Diss.; 1981''.

1981, Lu went back to Zhejiang University and continued his teaching position as a lecturer. He soon was promoted to associate professor and was the research group leader of the Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control at ZJU. 1983, Lu was promoted to professor, and was the director of the Institute of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ZJU. From 1985 to 1987, Lu served as Vice-president of ZJU; and from 1988 to 1995, he was the President of ZJU. Lu is also a part-time professor at Tsinghua University.

Lu was assigned Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he was the Executive Vice-president of CAS. Since July 1997, he is the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also the Executive Chairman of the Presidential Committee of CAS Academic Board . Since 2003, Lu is the Vice-chairman of National People's Congress.

Academic & educational positions

Presidentship:
Vice-president, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ,
Executive Vice-president, CAS,
Executive Chairman, the Presidential Committee of CAS Academic Board,
President, CAS,
Vice-president, Chinese Association of Science and Technology ,
Chairman, Higher Education Consultative Committee of the State Education Commission,
Chief Director , Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology ,
Chief Director, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society ,
Vice-president, Third World Academy of Sciences ,
Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council ,

Memberships:
Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering ,
Academician, the Chinese Academy of Sciences , in the Division of Technological Sciences,
Member, University Grants Committee ,
Member, Third World Academy of Sciences ,
Foreign Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Honorary Fellow, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, UK,
Corresponding Member, the Australian Academy of Science,
Foreign Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences,

Social & political positions

Vice-chairman, National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China,
Member, Chief Executive's Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR,
Special Advisor, Advisory Commission on Innovation and Technology, Hong Kong SAR,

Honors & awards

Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille
Alexander von Humboldt Medal
The Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Werner Heisenberg Medal , from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Gold Badge for Science and Culture of Public President of Italy,
Abdus Salam Medal, from the Third World Academy of Sciences ,
Harnack medal , from the Max Planck Institute

Lu Guanqiu

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Lu Guanqiu , is a famous entrepreneur and billionaire. According some source, he is the current richest person in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.

Life

Lu was born in January 1945 in Yuhang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in a peasant family. when he was 15 years old, he dropped out of school and became an . July 1969, he co-founded a factory with the other 6 peasants, and their products were small-sized agricultural machines.

Lu later developed his factory to the current Wanxiang Group , a giant manufacture conglomerate, especially a leading producer of automobile facilities and components .

Lu is the current President of board of Wanxiang Group. His headquarters are located in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Lu is also a part-time professor at Zhejiang University and he teaches an EMBA program for the university . He also was rewarded a from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

According to the recent 2007's Forbes Mainland China Rich List , Lu was ranked No.33 with 13.13 . According to recent Hurun Report, Lu is the current richest individual living in Zhejiang Province .

Lin Fanghua

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Lin Fanghua , also sometimes written as "Fang-Hua Lin", 1959-, is a Chinese-born American mathematician. He's currently a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He continues the tradition of applying tough analysis to nonlinear systems and is a world leader in this domain .

Biography

Born in 1959 in Zhenhai County , Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Zhejiang University in 1981. Lin went to USA to pursue his further study in the Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, and obtained his PhD in 1985. From Sept. 1985 to Aug. 1988, he was an instructor at Courant Institute, New York University. Then he went to the University of Chicago, becoming a full-time professor there from Aug. 1988 till Aug.

In September 1989, he started his professorship at New York University. He was then awarded the Silver Professorship, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Lin did important work in Ginzburg–Landau theory.

Awards and honors

1989–1991, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1989–1994, Presidential Young Investigator
1999, Ordway Chair Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
2002, B?cher Memorial Prize, by American Mathematical Society
2004,
2005, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Li Zhijian

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Li Zhijian , 1928-, is a pioneer of microelectronics. He is former Chief of the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University; and the current Chairman of the Academic Committee, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.

Life

Li was born on 1^st May, 1928, in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. 1951, he graduated from the Department of Physics, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. He went to study mathematics and physics in USSR and was awarded a Science Doctorand by USSR National University of Leningrad .

Li later became a professor of Tsinghua University and held the chief-director position of the institute of Microelectronics for a long time. He is the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Information Science and Technology School, Tsinghua University.
He is also the Vice-president of the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science; and the Vice-chairman of the Chinese semiconductor and Integrated Circuits Technology Association.

Li has been active in many international academic meetings. He served many times as the meeting-president, member of meeting commission in many international conferences including the International Conference on Solid State Device and Integrated Circuit Technology , Solid State Material and Device Meeting and IEEE Regional Conferences.

Li made great contributions to the Chinese microelectronics, for detailed information please see .

Positions

1999-, Member, Third World Academy of Sciences
1991-, Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chief Director, Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University
Chairman of the Academic Committee, School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Vice-president, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science
Vice-chairman, Chinese semiconductor and Integrated Circuits Technology Association
Member, Editorial Board, ''Electronic Sinica''

Extra Sources

- Li Zhijian

Kwang-Chu Chao

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Kwang-Chu Chao , is an chemist and chemical engineer.

Chao is the Harry Creighton Pfeffer Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University . He is also the President of American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation .

Chao graduated from the Department of Chemistry, National Chekiang University in 1948. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. both from the University of Wisconsin.

Works

Books written and edited by Chao:
''Phase Equilibrium in Coal Liquefaction Processes''
''Equations of State in Engineering and Research''
''Applied Thermodynamics''
''Thermodynamics of Fluid - An Introduction to Equilibrium Theory''

Kun-Liang Guan

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Kun-Liang Guan , is an biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.

Career

In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang , China. In 1982, Guan graduated from the Department of Biology, Hangzhou University . He did his postgraduate study at Purdue University . In 1991, Guan joined the University of Michigan , and became a lecturer in the Department of Biological Chemistry. 1996-2000, he was an associate professor at UM. In 2000 Guan became a professor at UM.

In 1998, Kun-Liang Guan was rewarded a MacArthur Fellowship, with a grant of $230,000 over five years. Before this, he won the Schering-Plough Award, by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology .

Guan currently is a professor of the Pharmacology Cancer Biology Program at University of California, San Diego . Guan's research mainly focuses on cancer biology and the intracellular signal transduction in cell growth regulation . Guan and his team have published some influential papers in '''', '''', '''', etc.

Jin Guozhang

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Jin Guozhang , is a pharmacologist, and educator. He is considered as a pioneer of modernizing traditional Chinese medicine.

Life

Jin was born on June 6 1927 in , Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. He studied at the Department of Pharmacy, School of Sciences, Zhejiang University. He later became a researcher at the prestigious Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences . He also served as a professor at the School of Pharmacy, Fudan University in Shanghai.

Jin is a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected into the academy in 2001.

Work

Jin systematically studied the Chinese traditional medicines, their ingredients and compositions. He also identified several important effective ingradients and their pharmacological approaches for some traditional medicines. Jinalso holds several patents of Chinese medicines.

Jiang Menglin

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Jiang Menglin , who in English used the name Chiang Monlin, was the president of Peking University, serving in 1919-1927. He later became the president of .

He studied at Zhejiang Advanced College in Hangzhou in 1903. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University, United States, under John Dewey's guidance.

He also served as the minister of education of Republic of China government in 1928 and Chairman of the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Jiang Baili

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Jiang Baili was a Chinese military trainer.

1899, Jiang entered Qiushi Academy in Hangzhou through examination . Afer becoming Xiucai in 1898, Jiang went abroad to study in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy. He graduated with the highest score and was honored a sword by Emperor Shōwa. He joined Tongmenghui during his time in Japan. After returning from Japan, he was sent to Germany for further military studying.

In 1912, Jiang became the principle of the Baoding Military Academy. He attempted suicide in 1913 for he was unable to get the fund he promised to his student from the Department of Military. Although his suicide was stopped by his bodyguards, he won a reputation of putting his words above his life.

In the warlord era, Jiang served as Wu Peifu's chief of staff, however he resigned after Wu turned down his plan to ally with the Guangdong government. In 1935 Jiang accepted Chiang Kai-shek's invitation to become senior adviser in the National Military Council, and remained in the post until in 1938. In 1938, Jiang died of illness shortly after being appointed the principle of the . He was honored the General rank after his death.

Jiang was married to a Japanese nurse, Sat? Yato. His third daughter became a musician, and married Tsien Hsue-shen, the father of Chinese rocketry.

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