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List of modern scientists from Shanghai

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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. Some notable modern scientists from Shanghai are listed below.

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

Mainland China

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau

References

References

  1. (2011-07-09). "徐光启 Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) - City's son introduces European science".
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