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. 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