Twenty-nine prominent Chinese scientists have been elected as CAS Members and five of their colleagues from US, France and Russia as CAS Foreign Members in 2007. The announcement was made by CAS Vice President LI Jinghai at a press conference held on 27 December in Beijing. CAS President LU Yongxiang was present at the meeting.
Twenty-nine prominent Chinese scientists have been elected as CAS Members and five of their colleagues from US, France and Russia as CAS Foreign Members in 2007. The announcement was made by CAS Vice President LI Jinghai at a press conference held on 27 December in Beijing. CAS President LU Yongxiang was present at the meeting.
The CAS membership is the highest academic title and an honor of life tenure conferred by the State in science and technology circles in China. The election of CAS members is held biennially, and each time the total number of new members will not exceed 60, according to the Bylaws for CAS members. At present, CAS has a total of 710 Members.
The new CAS Members, elected from 287 candidates, included six from the Division of Mathematics and Physics, six from Division of chemistry, seven from Division of Life sciences and Medicine, four from Division of Earth Sciences, one from Division of Information technical Sciences and five from Technological Sciences. Sixty-nine percent of the new CAS Members are under 60. The oldest is 69 and the youngest 41. The average age of the newly elected is 53.7, the lowest since 1991.
According to the Bylaws of CAS Members, Foreign Members of CAS are elected for their distinguished achievements in scientific research and valuable contributions to China's S&T development. A candidate for the foreign membership becomes eligible only when nominated by not less than five CAS members. The election takes place biennially at the General Assembly of the CAS via secret ballot. Now there are 53 Foreign Members at CAS.
The followings are a name list of newly elected CAS Members and their ages, specialties and affiliations at the time of election.
(Academic Division of Mathematics and Physics)
LONG Yiming, 58, mathematics, Nankai University
WANG Enge, 50, condensed state physics, the CAS Institute of Physics
WU Yueliang, 45, theoretical physics, the CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics
XIN Dingyu, 62, condensed state physics, Nanjing University
YU Changxuan, 65, plasma physics, the University of Science and Technology of China
ZHANG Weiping, 43, pure mathematics, Nankai University
(Academic Division of Chemistry)
CHAI Zhifang, 64, Radiochemistry, the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics
DUAN Xue, 50, chemical engineering (applied chemistry), Beijing University of Chemical Technology
GAO Song, 43, inorganic chemistry, Peking University
SONG Licheng, 69, organic chemistry, Nankai University
ZHANG Xi, 41, polymer chemistry and physics, Tsinghua University
ZHAO Dongyuan, 44, physical chemistry, Fudan University
(Academic Division of Life Sciences and Medicine)
CHEN Runsheng, 66, bioinformatics, the CAS Institute of Biophysics
DUAN Shumin, 49, molecular biology, the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
MENG Anming, 43, developmental biology, Tsinghua University
WU Weihua, 50, plant physiology, Chinese Agricultural University
XIE Hua'an, 65, plant genetics and breeding, Provincial Agricultural Academy of Fujian
YANG Huanming, 54, genomics, the CAS Beijing Institute of Genomics
ZHAO Jindong, 50, plant physiology & phycology, Peking University
(Academic Division of Earth Sciences)
MU Mu, 52, atmospheric dynamics, the CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics
YANG Yuanxi, 50, geodetic surveying, Xi'an Research Institute of Surveying and Mapping
YAO Tandong, 52, glacier environment and global change, the CAS Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research
ZHANG Jing, 49, chemical oceanography and marine biogeochemistry, East China Normal University
(Academic Division of Information Technical Sciences)
WU Yirong, 43, signals and information processing, the CAS Institute of Electronics
(Academic Division of Technological Sciences)
CHENG Shijie, 61, power systems and related automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
HU Haiyan, 50, mechanics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
REN Luquan, 63, bionics and engineering, Jilin University
WANG Keming, 68, materials physics, Shandong University
ZHU Shining, 57, functional materials and microstructure, Nanjing University
Foreign Members
Newly elected foreign members, their dates of birth, specialties, affiliations at the time of election, and their country of citizenship their country are as follows.
Alan J. Heeger, December, 1936, physics, chemistry and materials, University of California Santa Barbara, US
Chenming Hu, July, 1947, micro-electronic device physics and integrated circuits, University of California at Berkeley, US
Ferid Murad, September, 1936, molecular and clinical pharmacology, signal massager and molecular & cellular signal transduction, and new drug discovery, the University of Texas Molecular Medicine Center, US
Ludwig D.Faddeev, March, 1934, mathematics, Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russia
Vincent Courtillot, March 1948, geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France