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.[citation needed] 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

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)

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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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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)

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### United States

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* 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

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### Mainland China

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* 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

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### Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau

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* Lap-Chee Tsui: M-AS, FRS, FRSC, FM-NAS
* Ping-Tse Kao

* Woo Chia-wei: NAS

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## See also

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

## References

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