List of modern scientists from Shanghai

Shanghai is the cultural center of the Yangtze Delta Region in China. In the late Ming dynasty, Xu Guangqi played a key role in the introduction of 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.

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

Birthplace Shanghai

United States

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: Balzan Prize laureate (2005) Thomas Huang: M-NAE, F-IEEE, F-SPIE, FM-CAS, FM-CAE Savio L-Y. Woo: M-IM/NAE Shien Biau Woo 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: 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: M-CAE Hu Hesheng: M-CAS/TWAS He Zuoxiu: M-CAS Zhen-yi Wang: M-CAE, FM-FAS

Wu Wenjun: 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: M-AS, FRS, FRSC, FM-NAS Ping-Tse Kao

Woo Chia-wei: 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

References

1. "徐光启 Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) - City's son introduces European science". Shanghai Daily. 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2025-03-20.