Yesterday (April 18), American Academy of Humanities and Sciences announced the list of new academicians in 2018, with a total of 177 academicians and 36 foreign academicians elected, of which 6 Chinese scholars were included.
According to the official website of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS abbreviation in English) was approved and established by the Massachusetts Legislature on May 4, 1780. It is one of the oldest independent academic groups and policy research centers in the United States. The first president is the first vice president and the second president of the United States.
1780's constitution stipulates its purpose: "Promote academics to enhance the morality of freedom, independence and good people." The American Academy of Humanities and Sciences has been engaged in extensive and interdisciplinary policy research for a long time, with major focus areas including science, technology, global energy and security, social policy and American system, humanities and culture, education, art, etc. There are now more than 4,900 academicians and more than 600 honorary foreign academicians. They are all outstanding scholars from the fields of science, technology, humanities, education, social policy, art, etc. Among them are 250 Nobel Prize winners and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. Previously, famous Chinese scholars such as Hu Shi , Qian Xuesen , Li Zhengdao, Ding Zhaozhong, Li Yuanzhe, Qiu Chengtong , Xie Xide, Wu Hong, Cui Qi , Tian Gang , Shi Yigong, I.M. Pei , Yu Kongjian, Li Ling, Chen Zhu and other famous Chinese scholars were all elected as academicians of the academy.
A total of 6 Chinese were elected as members of the American Academy of Humanities and Sciences in 2018, including 2 foreign academicians and 4 academicians. These six well-known experts, except for , MIT , tenured professor of the School of Science and gene editing expert , Zhang Feng , have study experience in Chinese universities. The detailed list is as follows:
Foreign academician:
, Nankai , President of the University of Nankai , Cao Xuetao
, Peking University , Professor Yuan Xingpei
, Academician:
, MIT Tech School of Science and gene editing expert Zhang Feng
, MIT Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chen Gang
, MIT Tech University 2, Professor of Nanotechnology and Energy Conversion, Chen Gang , MIT Tech University 2Yale University Eugene Higgins Chair Professor, Stem Cell Expert Lin Haifan
Michigan State University Chair Professor and Ecology Expert Liu Jianguo
Nankai University President Cao Xuetao
Academician Cao Xuetao was born in 1964. He graduated from Shanghai Second Military Medical University in 1986 and received his doctorate from the school in 1990. He was promoted to professor in 1992. He served as vice president of the Second Military Medical University in 2004. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005 (at the age of 41). In 2011, he served as the president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, in 2015, he served as the president of Peking Union Medical College (formerly the Chinese Union Medical University), and at the end of 2017, he served as the president of Nankai University. He has been elected as a foreign academician of the German Academy of Sciences, a foreign academician of the British Academy of Medical Sciences, a foreign academician of the French Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign academician of the National Academy of Medical Sciences.
Cao Xuetao has been engaged in basic research on natural immunity and inflammation in anti-infection, and research on the transformation and application of tumor immunotherapy. He has published more than 240 SCI papers as a corresponding author. In the past five years, he has published many research papers in "Cell", "Nature", "Science", "Nature-Immunology". The developed dendritic cell vaccine has completed phase II clinical trials for patients with advanced tumors, and has obtained approval from the State Food and Drug Administration to conduct phase III clinical trials. He has won the Yangtze River Scholar Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education (2005), the Chinese Academy of Engineering Guanghua Engineering Award (2012), and the Chen Jiageng Life Science Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2016). The 12 doctoral thesis he trained won the national excellent doctoral thesis, and he also won the first China Postgraduate Education Special Prize (2014) and the Nature Outstanding Supervisor Lifetime Achievement Award (2015). The National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, founded and served as director in 2006, won the National Innovation Top Ten Team Medal last year. He served as the chairman and secretary-general of the Chinese Immunology Society for 12 years. He has served as the chairman of the Asia-Pacific Immunology Society Alliance and the chairman of the Global Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Alliance, and has contributed to the development of my country's immunology and medical science and technology.
Professor Yuan Xingpei from Peking University
Yuan Xingpei, whose courtesy name is Chunshu, was born on April 18, 1936 in Jinan, Shandong Province. He was originally from Wujin , Jiangsu (now Wujin District, Changzhou City). Senior professor of Chinese Department of Peking University, dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the International Sinologist Training Base, director of the Central Literature and History Research Institute, editor-in-chief of "Chinese Studies Research", and a famous classical literature expert. Member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth and Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Member of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress. Vice Chairman of the Eighth and Ninth China Democratic League Central Committee.
Yuan Xingpei's main works include "Research on Chinese Poetry Art" (in Japanese and Korean translations), "Introduction to Chinese Literature" (in Korean translations), "Research on Tao Yuanming", "Annotations on Tao Yuanming's Collection", "Image of Tao Yuanming" (in Korean translations), "Tang Poetry Style and Others", "Contemporary Famous Academic Thought Library·Yuan Xingpei Volume", "The Meteorology of Learning", "Yulu Collection", "New Ancient Rhymes" (Yuan Xingpei Volume), and "One Hundred Quatrains on Poetry". There are also four volumes of "History of Chinese Literature" (editor), four volumes of "Selected Notes on Chinese Literature Works" (editor), four volumes of "History of Chinese Civilization" (one of the editors, including English, Japanese, Serbian, and Korean translations), "Research on the Poetry World of the Prosperous Tang Dynasty" (co-author), "General Theory of Chinese Poetics" (co-author), "Biography of Chinese Classical Chinese Novels" (co-author), etc.
MIT professor Zhang Feng
Zhang Feng, male, born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei in 1982, PhD in MIT, USA. He is one of the most concerned Chinese biologists today. His most famous work is the development and application of the genetic modification technology CRISPR-Cas9, and he was the first to obtain a US patent and is regarded as one of the popular candidates for the Nobel Prize.
received a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University in 2004; in 2009, he received a doctorate in Chemistry and Bioengineering from Stanford University; in 2011, he joined MIT, and at the McGovern Institute's Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, as well as the Broad Institute Institute) is engaged in scientific research;
In 2013, his laboratory developed an innovative CRISPR/Cas system, which greatly improved the reliability and efficiency of editing genes, and attracted international attention and received various honors for his breakthrough research results. In 2014, he was selected as one of the top ten scientific figures of the year by Nature magazine; in 2015, he was nominated for "Bostonian of the Year"; in January 2016, he was named one of the 19 most influential scientists in the world by Thomson Reuters. At the same time, he is the only biomedical engineering scholar on the list and the youngest scientist; in March 2016, he won the Canadian Gaildern International Award; on September 21, 2016, he was shortlisted for the Thomson Reuters "Citation Laurel Award" in the field of chemistry, and was regarded as a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize.
was promoted to tenured professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. On August 15, 2017, Zhang Feng won the Alberney Biomedical Prize, becoming the second Chinese scholar in history to win this award.
MIT Professor Chen Gang
Chen Gang, born in Nanzhang, Hubei in 1964, is an academician of the National Academy of Engineering, an academician of the Central Academy of Technology, and a chair professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the MIT.
In 1980, Chen Gang was admitted to the Department of Power of Huazhong University of Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology ). In 1987, he obtained a master's degree in the Department of Power in the Central China University of Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology), and stayed at the school as a lecturer after graduation. In 1993, he received his PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of Duke University as an assistant professor. In 2001, he entered the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and served as an associate professor; in 2004, he served as a professor. The formula of "boldbody radiation law" was broken for the first time in 2009. He was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010. He was elected as a member of the American Physics Society in 2012. In 2013, he served as the director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Chen Gang's research involves heat transfer, nanotechnology and energy conversion, mainly including experimental, theoretical and numerical calculations of energy conversion and transmission mechanisms at micron and nanoscales.
Professor Lin Haifan at Yale University
Lin Haifan, a biologist, from Dongtou, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Yale University Eugene Higgins Chair Professor (Tenior) of Yale Stem Cell Center, Founding Director of Yale University Stem Cell Center, Professor of the Department of Cell Biology, Department of Genetics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, Yale University.
Lin Haifan received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Fudan University in 1982; in 1990, he received a doctorate degree in Cornell University in gene and development; from 1990 to 1994 to be a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute in the United States; from 1994 to 2006, he served as an assistant professor, tenured associate professor and professor at the Duke University School of Medicine in the United States; from 2006 to now, he served as a professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Professor in the Department of Genetics, Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, and Founding Director of the Stem Cell Center; from July 2013, he also served as a professor at the Institute of Immunochemistry at Shanghai University of Science and Technology; from March 2014, he also served as a dean of the School of Life Science and Technology of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
Lin Haifan has been engaged in stem cell biology, reproductive biology, RNA biology, and epigenetics for a long time, and has made important contributions to these fields. He discovered the first maternal effector gene to control embryonic cell division, proved the theory of self-renewal of stem cell asymmetric division and the stem cell microenvironment hypothesis, and discovered and named a variety of stem cell genes shared by humans, animals and plants, including the famous Argonaute gene family. A new type of genetic regulatory molecule piRNA was discovered and named (piRNA was also discovered by three other laboratories at the same time). This discovery was rated as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs in 2006 by the world's top scientific journal Science.
professor Liu Jianguo
Dr. Liu Jianguo is a world-renowned ecologist, sustainable development scientist, and an expert in environmental issues in China. He graduated from Hunan Agricultural University in 1983, obtained a master's degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, went to the United States to study in 1988, and received a doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1992; from 1992 to 1994, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and worked as a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2001–2002), Harvard University (2008), and Princeton University (2009); he has served in several international and national academic committees and expert groups.
is currently the Rachel Carson Chair, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Michigan State University, a distinguished professor at the University and director of the Center for System Integration and Sustainability Development. Created and led the International Human-Nature Coupling System Research Network, presided over and completed dozens of interdisciplinary comprehensive research projects funded by government agencies and international organizations such as the American Science Foundation, , NASA, and the American Institute of Health. It has published more than 10 articles in world-leading academic journals such as Nature and Science. Editorial board members of "Science", Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences", Ecology and Society, Journal of Resources and Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning, Ecosystems, Cological Modeling, Journal of Ecology and other editorial boards.
Chinese Academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Historically, Chinese who were elected as academicians of the American Academy of Humanities and Sciences or foreign academicians include:
Hu Shi, a philosopher, former president of the Central Academy of Research, former president of Peking University, and was elected as a foreign academician in 1932.
Wu Jingxiong , a jurist, former dean of the School of Law of Soochow University, former legislator of the Republic of China, drafter of the "First Draft Constitution of the Republic of China" (Wu's Constitution Draft), was elected as a foreign academician in 1938.
Weng Wenhao, a geologist, one of the first academicians of the Central Academy of Research, former president of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, was elected as a foreign academician in 1947.
Qian Xuesen, the father of China's aerospace, and the founder of the two bombs and one satellite. He was elected as an academician in 1949.
Li Zhengdao, physicist, professor at , Columbia University, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics, and was elected as an academician in 1959.
Lin Jiaqiao, a mathematician, professor at MIT, former chairman of the American Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, was elected as a member of the academician in 1962.
Wang Ruizhi, a physicist, professor at the State University of New York, Buffalo, was elected as an academician in 1970.
Wu Jianxiong , a physicist and professor at Columbia University, is known as the "Queen of Physics" and "Madame Curie of China". He was elected as an academician in 1972.
Ding Zhaozhong is a physicist, professor at the MIT, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics, and was elected as an academician in 1975.
Huang Kesun , physicist, translator, poet, professor at MIT, was elected as an academician in 1976.
Li Yuanzhe, chemist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, former president of the Central Academy of Sciences, was elected as an academician in 1975.
He Bingdi, historian, professor of at the University of Chicago, former president of the American Asian Society, was elected as an academician in 1979.
Wei Qianguang , a chemical engineer, professor at Princeton University, former dean of the School of Engineering, was elected as an academician in 1982.
Yu Chengtong, a mathematician, professor at Harvard University, winner of the Fields Medal in 1982, and was elected as an academician in 1982.
Wang Zhuo, a biochemist and professor at Harvard University, was elected as an academician in 1984.
Wang Yiqiao, a biochemical engineer, a professor at MIT, was elected as an academician in 1985.
Zhu Jingwu , a physicist, former president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was elected as an academician in 1989.
Xiang Wuzhong, a mathematician and professor at Stanford University, was elected as an academician in 1989.
Xie Xide, a physicist, professor and president of Fudan University, was elected as a foreign academician in 1989.
Xu Xiasheng, astronomer, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, former president of the American Astronomical Society, former president of the National Tsinghua University, was elected as an academician in 1992.
Zhu Diwen, a physicist, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, US Secretary of Energy, was elected as an academician in 1992.
Wang Gungwu, historian, former dean of the Australian Academy of Humanities, former president of the University of Hong Kong, was elected as a foreign academician in 1993.
Weng Qihui, biochemist, dean of the Central Academy of Research, was elected as an academician in 1996
Qian Zenan, biochemist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, chairman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States, and was elected as an academician in 1997.
Liao Shuzong, a biologist and professor at the University of Chicago, was elected as an academician in 1997.
He Fayi, a medical scientist and professor at Rockefeller University, was elected as an academician in 1997.
Wu Yizhong, a biologist and director of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology at the National Institutes of Health, was elected as an academician in 1998.
Wang Youzeng, an information scientist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, former deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and former vice president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was elected as a member in 1999.
Li Wenxiong, evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Chicago, was elected as an academician in 1999.
Li Taifeng, an astronomer and former director of the Institute of Geosciences, Central Academy of Sciences, was elected as a foreign academician in 1999.
Yao Qizhi, a computer scientist, professor at Princeton University and Tsinghua University, winner of the 2000 Turing Award, and was elected as an academician in 2000.
Yu Guofan, a humanistic person, professor at the University of Chicago, was elected as an academician in 2000.
Cui Qi, a physicist, professor at Princeton University, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics, was elected as an academician in 2000.
Yao Hongze , a mathematician and professor at Harvard University, was elected as an academician in 2001.
Lin Chao, astronomer, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, director of the founding institute of the Coveli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, was elected as an academician in 2002
Xiao Yintang, a mathematician, professor at Harvard University, and was elected as an academician in 2004.
Xie Yu, sociologist, professor at the University of Michigan, was elected as an academician in 2004.
Lin Fanghua, a mathematician, professor at New York University, was elected as an academician in 2004.
Tian Gang, a mathematician and professor at MIT, was elected as an academician in 2004.
Chen Yi, musician, professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas, was elected as an academician in 2005.
Qian Xu, a biomedical engineer, professor at the University of California, San Diego, winner of the 2011 National Medal of Science, and was elected as an academician in 2006.
Hajin, writer, professor at Boston University, winner of the 1999 National Book Award, and was elected as a Fellow of 2006.
Shi Chunfeng, mechanic, professor , former president, founding president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, was elected as a foreign academician in 2006.
Zhan Yunong, a biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was elected as a Fellow of the Year in 2007.
Ye Gongzhu, a biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was elected as an academician in 2007.
Yuan Junying, a biologist and professor at Harvard University, was elected as an academician in 2007.
Wu Hong, art historian and professor at the University of Chicago, was elected as an academician in 2007.
Xie Xiaoliang, chemist, professor at Harvard University, was elected as an academician in 2008.
Lei Gancheng, a theoretical physicist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was elected as a Fellow of the Year in 2009.
Dai Hongjie, a physicist and professor at Stanford University, was elected as an academician in 2009.
Hu Ling, a microelectronicist and a professor at Harvard University, was elected as an academician in 2010.
Chen Changqian, chemist, professor at Caltech, former vice president of the Central Academy of Sciences, was elected as an academician in 2010.
Weng Yulin, an astronomer and professor at the California Institute of Technology, was elected as an academician in 2011.
Zhang Shousheng , a physicist and professor at Stanford University, was elected as an academician in 2011.
Zhang Shouwu , a mathematician, professor at Columbia University, was elected as an academician in 2011.
Wang Yingzhen, a medical scientist, University of California, San Diego, was elected as an academician in 2011.
Hou Yizhao, mathematician, professor at the California Institute of Technology, chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics, was elected as an academician in 2011.
Pedong Yang , chemist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was elected as an academician in 2012.
Luo Liqun, a biologist and professor at Stanford University, was elected as an academician in 2012.
Shi Yigong, a biologist and professor at Tsinghua University, was elected as an academician in 2013.
Yu Bin, a mathematician, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was elected as a Fellow in 2013.
Yu Kongjian, a landscape scientist and professor at Peking University, was elected as an academician in 2016.
Li Ling, a linguist and professor at Peking University, was elected as an academician in 2016.
Yulong, conductor, artistic director of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, was elected as an academician in 2016.
Chen Zhu, hematologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was elected as an academician in 2017
