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10 of the Most Famous Chinese Scientists

China is the highest populated country in the world. It’s population accounts for 18.47% share of the world’s population. This  is about 1.402 billion people.

For this and other reasons like formal education, there are very many scientists with different experiences.

Of importance to note is that China leads in the production of machine tools. The machines makes work extremely easy and operate with efficiency.

Other than machines, the country has been ranked as a pioneer of various field developments like the invention of hybrid rice and malaria drug therapy.

When one talks of China, it is hard not to talk about the herbal medicine from the country.

This makes it motherland of herbalist who used their talents and knowledge in herbs. The significant of these herbs is that they managed to help man live for 256 years.

On the other hand, fiber optics were developed and put into practice by a Chinese scientist.

Chinese scientists, have conducted research and discovered great things that are being used to date like the discovery of the moon reflecting the dun and others.

These scientists have also been involved in contributions towards universal projects like the Manhattan Project.

In appreciation, the scientists have been awarded various awards and prizes like Nobel Prize in Physics as well as other awards.

The scientists have contributed to the current status of China’s scientific developments and relevant fields in other parts of the world.

1. Tu YouYou

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Youyou was born on the 30^th of December, 1930. She is a pharmaceutical chemist and a Malariologist.

She became famous after she invented a drug therapy for malaria, Artemisinin.

For this invention, she has rewarded awards like the Nobel Prize in Physiology/medicine awarded in 2015. She studied at the Peking University of Beijing.

She works at The China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine from 1965 to date, where she is currently the chief scientist.

2. Li Ching-Yen

Ching-Yen was believed to have been born in May 1677 in Beijing China. He was a martial artist, herbalist, and tactical advisor. He was married to Wong Mei-Ki.

His fame comes from his extreme longevity claim and spiritual practices using herbs. Ching-Yen lived for two hundred and fifty-six (256) years.

Unfortunately, he died on the 6^th of May 1933 in Sichuan, Republic of China.

3. Charles Kuen Kao

Sir Kuen Charles Kao was born on the 4^th of November, 1933 in Shanghai, China. He was an electrical engineer and a physicist too.

Charles Kao is famous for being the pioneer of the development and use of fiber optics. This he did from the physics properties of a glass and later the discovery laid the groundwork for high-speed data.

This brought to life his famous invention of fiber optics in telecommunication in the 1960s.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and the Grand Bauhinia Medal among other awards. He died on the 23^rd of September, 2018 in Shatin, Hongkong.

4. Andrew Yao

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Yao was born on the 24^th of December, 1946 in Shanghai, China. He is a Chinese computer scientist and a computational therapist. He is married to Frances You, and he also holds an American Nationality.

The fundamental contributions to the theory of computation made him famous. Notwithstanding the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity.

Of importance to not are the awards he has been awarded. These include the Turing Award and Knuth Prize among other awards.

Currently, he is a professor and the Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University.

5. Frank Chen Ning Yang

Frank Chen Ning Yaang was born on the 22^nd of September, 1922 in Hefei, China.

Notably, a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who contributed to statistical mechanics, intergrable systems, gauge theory, as well as both particle and condenses matter physics.

Of course, he is a family man married to Weng Fan and they have three children.

Chen is famous for his research that showed the parity between the symmetry and physical phenomena occurring in right-handed and left-handed coordinates systems.

His discovery shows that there is violation when certain elementary particles decay.

However, he is a holder of a Nobel Prize in Physics.

6. Shiing-Shen Chern

Chern was born on the 28^th of October, 1911 in Jiaxing, China. He was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet who made contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was married to Zheng Shining and they had two children.

He is famous for being the foremost differential geometer of his time. He used to analyze and describe geologic structures. He was a member of the School of Mathematics, in the Institute for Advanced Study on numerous occasions.

He died on the 3^rd of December, 2004 in Tianjin, China.

7. Tsung-Dao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee was born on the 24^th of November, 1926 in Shanghai, China.

What has made him famous in the body of science are various discoveries.

They include his work on parity violation, the Lee-Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy-ion physics. More important is the Nontopological solitons, and soliton stats.

He is mainly famous for the joint work he did with Chen Ning Yang in discovering a violation of the principle of parity conservation, which is the quality of space reflection symmetry of subatomic particle interaction.

8. Zhang Heng

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He was born in 78 AD in Nanyang, China. He was a polymath scientist, astronomer, inventor, and statesman. He was the chief astronomer in the Chinese emperor court.

His fame began when he managed to map the stars and planets. Also, he was the one that discovered that the moon was not a source of light but reflected the sun. He invented Zhang’s Seismoscope.

After his contribution to the body of science, he died in the year 139 AD.

9. Shen Kuo

Shen Kuo was born in the year 1031 in Hangzhou, China. He was a Chinese mathematician, scientist, and statesman.

He is famous for discovering the True North concept in terms of magnetic declination towards the North Pole. He used suspended magnetic needles and his determined meridian which he improved.

Shen died in the year 1095 in Zhenjiang China.

10. Chien-Shiung Wu

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Wu was born on the 31^st of May, 1912 in Liuhe Taician Suzhou, China. She was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics.

She is famous for her work on the Manhattan Project where she helped develop the process for separating Uranium into Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.

Unfortunately, she died on the 16^th of February, 1997 New York, United States.

The above is a list of the most famous Chinese scientists who have given all of them to bring relevant changes to the world under scientific fields more so physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics fields.

Some things in the world like fiber optics, malaria therapy drugs, separation of Uranium metal, mapped stars and the planets, the principle of parity conservation, differential geometry, and others have all been brought about by these Chinese scientists.