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Top scientists give up US citizenship to join Chinese academy
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Joey
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2017-03-06 10:17:16
Top scientists give up US citizenship to join Chinese academy
Two award-winning Chinese scientists, Professor Chen Ning Yang and Professor Yao Qizhi,
were formally named as members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) after
renouncing US citizenship, the academy's faculty office said on Tuesday.
Both scientists were born in China, but later became American citizens. It is the first time
overseas Chinese scientists have given up their citizenship to sign on as Chinese members
of CAS. Both men have won multiple high-profile international awards in the past, including
the Nobel Prize and Turing Award.
Professor Yang joined the Division of Mathematics and Physics, while Professor Yao
acceded to that of Information Technical Science. The total number of listed Chinese CAS
members now stands at 754, along with 78 foreign members.
Yang and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics for their work on parity
nonconservation of weak interaction, a major breakthrough in the world of physics. They were
the first people of Chinese origin to win a Nobel Prize.
While widely recognized as a venerable figure in physics, Yang also hit headlines after marrying
28-year-old Weng Fan at the age of 82 in 2004.
In 2000, Yao became the first person of Chinese origin to receive the Turing Award, the most
distinguished award in the field of computer science. He resigned from Princeton University in
2004 and returned to China to be a professor.
Yang, now 94, obtained American citizenship in 1964, which he described in his autobiography
as “a painful choice.” He said he felt “grateful” for his contribution to the Sino-US relationship.
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