Liang Congjie (梁从诫) ( 06-12-06 )

Prof. Liang is a very well-known historian in China, and has devoted his career to the development of education, culture and publication in China. In 1993, his began to pay attention to the environment problems, and started the first Chinese environment NGO, Friends of Nature. Since then, he has committed all his efforts and energy to improving the public awareness and environment protection activities. He has made almost one hundred speeches or presentations to the students in universities, ...

Chen Ning Yang, 82, married 28-year-old student ( 06-11-23 )

Chen Ning Yang, a 82-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist, married Weng Fan, a 28-year-old graduate student. It was the hottest social topic in China in 2004. Weng, born in July 1976 in Chaozhou City, is a resident of Shantou. She was working on a masters degree in translation at the Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies when she married Yang. Yang is a Chinese-born American. He was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, in 1922. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague ...

Li Yinhe ( 06-10-20 )

Li Yinhe（李银河）, China's first female sociologist on sex issues, was born in Beijing in 1952. She is currently the researcher and mentor of doctorates with the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has a PhD degree in Sociology from Pittsburg University in the United States and a post-PhD degree in Sociology from Beijing University. She was once listed as one of China's 50 Most Influential People by Asian Weekly. Summarizing her research in the past decade, Li says ...

Zhang Beichuan ( 06-10-20 )

Zhang Beichuan is a Qingdao University professor and a renowned expert on homosexual studies. His study of Homosexuality and AIDS in China investigates the economic and cultural factors. According to his research, same-sex relationship usually lasts for 30 months. The average time span for a heterosexual relationship is about 36 months, after which they either break up or get married. “If there is no marriage option and support, what will happen to heterosexual lovers? Who knows?” Zhang argued. ...

Yan Kai (严恺) ( 06-10-16 )

He was a prominent water conservancy and coastal engineering expert. Yan Kai died of illness in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu Province at 4:26 AM on May 7 at the age of 94. Nanjing（南京）-based Hohai University where Yan served as an honorary president released the information on the evening of May 7th, but declined to comment on the illness Yan suffered from. Yan was also an academician for both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was born in ...

An Wang ( 06-10-09 )

Judy Yung ( 06-10-09 )

Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源) ( 06-10-09 )

Lue Gim Gong (呂金功) ( 06-09-29 )

Steven Chu ( 06-09-29 )

Tung-Yen Lin (林同炎) ( 06-09-29 )

Wen Tsing Chow (周文俊) ( 06-09-29 )

Terence Tao(陶哲轩, Táo Zhéxuān) ( 06-09-26 )

Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄) ( 06-09-26 )

Fan Chung(金芳蓉) ( 06-09-26 )

Shiing-Shen Chern ( 06-09-26 )

Shing-Tung Yao (丘成桐 ) ( 06-09-26 )

David Ho(何大一) ( 06-09-21 )

Daniel C. Tsui (崔琦 ) ( 06-09-21 )

Paul C.W. Chu(朱经武) ( 06-09-21 )