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Steve Chen
b. Taiwan
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Legendary supercomputer designer. Designed
parallel vector supercomputers for Cray Research in the 1980s. Later on founded
his own supercomputer firm and a mid-range server firm built on commodity
processors. He is currently serving as the chairman and CEO of Tonbu, a
software firm.
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陳省身
Shiing-Shen Chern
b. 1911, Jiaxing
d.
2004, Tianjin |
Mathematician. He got his doctorate in
Hamburg after getting his undergraduate degree in China. He worked at the
University of Chicago and at UC Berkeley. His area of specialty was
differential geometry, focusing on an area now named after him, the Chern
characteristics. |
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朱經武
Paul C.W. Chu
b. 1941, Hunan |
Physicist and leading researcher on
superconductivity. He was the first to
create ceramic compounds with superconducting
characteristics at relatively high temperature of -290°F, thus
bringing closer to reality the possibility
of practical superconductors. He
is currently the Director of the Texas
Center for Superconductivity at a professor
of physics at the University of Houston. |
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朱隸文
Steven Chu
b. 1948, St.Louis, MO
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Physicist. After obtaining a PhD in
Physics from the UC Berkeley, he worked at Berkeley and Bell Labs before
joining the staff of Stanford University as a professor of physics and
applied physics. He was awarded the
1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for "development of methods to cool
and trap atoms with laser light".
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李政道
Tsung-Dao Lee
b. 1926, Shanghai |
Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the
University of Chicago. He taught at the
State University of New York at Stony
Brook and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Together with his
partner,
Chen-Ning Yang, he won the
1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for
the "investigation of the so-called
parity laws which has led to important
discoveries regarding the elementary
particles", becoming the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in any field. |
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李遠哲
Yuan-Tseh Lee
b. 1936, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Chemist. He obtained his PhD
from UC Berkeley. He did research for Harvard and the University of
Chicago before returning to Berkeley to teach. He was awarded the
1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his "contributions concerning the
dynamics of chemical elementary processes". In 1994, he returned to Taiwan to
head the Academia Sinica, Taiwan's highest research institute. |
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丁肇中
Samuel C.C. Ting
b. 1936, Ann Arbor, MI
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Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the
University of Michigan. He did research at CERN and taught at Columbia
University before moving to MIT. He was awarded the
1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "pioneering work in the
discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind". Ting named the
particle he discovered J (allegedly because the letter J resembles the Chinese
character 丁, his surname). |
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崔琦
Daniel C. Tsui
b. 1939, Henan |
Physicist. After obtaining his PhD from the
University of Chicago, he worked for Bell Labs for fourteen years before taking
a position at Princeton University. He won the
1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the
"discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged
excitations".
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王安
An Wang
b. 1920, Shanghai
d. 1990
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Computer technologist and inventor. Wang
held 44 patents. His best known invention made possible the use of
magnetic core memory used in earlier computers. He also founded Wang
Laboratories, which initially built desktop calculators before
becoming the leader of office automation systems prior to the introduction
of the PC. |
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吳健雄
Chien-Shiung
Wu
b. 1912, Shanghai
d. 1997 |
Physicist. After receiving her PhD in Physics from the University of California,
Berkeley, she taught at Smith College and
Princeton University. Early in WW II, she
joined the famed Manhattan Project,
where she helped develop the uranium enrichement
process needed to
build the first atomic bomb. After the war,
she taught at Columbia University, she conducted
experiments that confirmed a theory proposed
by fellow physicists Chen-Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao
Lee. She was also the first woman president
of the American Physics Society. Her awards
include the National Medal of Science and
was the first living scientist having an
asteroid named after her. |
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楊振寧
Chen-Ning Yang
b. 1922, Anwhei |
Physicist. He obtained his PhD from the
University of Chicago. He taught at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He won the
1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for
his part in the "investigation of the
so-called parity laws which has led to
important discoveries regarding the elementary particles". By winning the Nobel Prize, Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee,
became role models for all science students
in Taiwan. |
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丘成桐
Shing-Tung Yao
b. 1949, Guangdong
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Mathematician. He obtained his PhD from UC
Berkeley. He taught at several leading
institutions including Stanford
and Harvard. He was awarded the Field's Medal, mathematics highest honor,
in 1982 for his many contributions including
advances in partial differential equations,
and algebraic geometry. She was also inducted
into the National Women's Hall of Fame. |
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