Scientists

Shi Yigong (May 5, 1967 -), male, Han nationality, Dayao, Yunnan, born in Zhengzhou, Henan, Chinese structural biologist, PhD in molecular biophysics, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, foreign academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences. Yangtze River Scholar Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, one of the first batch of nationally appointed experts in the "Thousand Talents Plan", professor of Tsinghua University, former dean of the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University, vice president of Tsinghua University, representative of the Henan delegation of the 12th National People's Congress, and member of the Overseas Chinese Committee of the National People's Congress. He is currently the President of West Lake University, Vice Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, and a member of the 13th and 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Shi Jianlin (?—), Chinese inorganic chemist, researcher at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2019, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Cao Chunxiao (August 6, 1934 - November 23, 2023), male, was born in Shangyu, Zhejiang, and was a Chinese materials scientist. He once served as a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials.

Honjo Tasuku (Japanese: Honjo Yu/Honjo Tasuku, Romanized: Honjo Tasuku, January 27, 1942 -) is a Japanese immunologist, a foreign academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a special professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University. Cultural Medal Commendation. Cultural meritorious person. Professor Honjo is world-famous for his research on PD-1 and activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). He has won important honors such as the first Tang Prize in Biotechnology and Medicine, the Kyoto Prize, and the Warren Abbott Prize. On October 1, 2018, Tasuku Honjo and James Allison won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Li Ruxin (October 1969-), a native of Jianou, Fujian, is a Chinese optician. Graduated from Tianjin University in 1990, majoring in optoelectronics technology. In 2017, he became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently serving as Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of ShanghaiTech University. Alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The research field is mainly optics, especially ultra-high peak power and ultra-short pulse lasers.

Li Tian (October 2, 1938 - April 11, 2018), a native of Jilin City, Jilin Province, is a Chinese aircraft aerodynamics expert and a researcher at the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute of China Aviation Industry Corporation.

Li Anmin (September 1946-), male, native of Dazhu, Sichuan, born in Chongqing, Chinese mathematician, professor of Sichuan University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li Jiachun (July 26, 1940-), born in Shanghai, is a Chinese mechanics scientist. Researcher at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Fudan University in 1962. In 2003, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he won the Zhou Peiyuan Mechanics Award for his contribution to the "research field of complex flow and environmental fluid mechanics". He once served as chief scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s “Ninth Five-Year Plan” climbing project “Research on Key Fundamental Issues in Fluid and Aerodynamics”.

Li Deping (November 4, 1926 - March 16, 2025), male, native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, born in Beijing, Chinese radiation physics, radiation protection and safety scientist, researcher and honorary president of the China Institute of Radiation Protection, senior advisor to the Science and Technology Committee of China National Nuclear Corporation.

Li Bihu (February 1946-), male, Tujia, Yuanling, Hunan, member of the Communist Party of China. Chinese agronomist, rice expert, and former assistant to Yuan Longping.

Li Tibei (June 12, 1939 -), male, from You County, Hunan Province, born in Chongqing, is a Chinese high-energy astrophysicist. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, professor at Tsinghua University, director of the Astrophysics Center of Tsinghua University, and chief scientist of the "973" National Key Basic Research Development Plan "Space Observation and Research of High-Energy Radiation of Celestial Bodies" project.

Tsung-Dao Lee (English name: Tsung-Dao Lee, November 24, 1926 - August 4, 2024), a Chinese-American physicist, famous for his achievements in parity non-conservation, Lee Model, Yang-Li theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, non-topological solitons and soliton stars in quantum field theory. He served as professor emeritus at Columbia University, lecturing from 1953 to 2012. In 1957, 31-year-old Lee Tsung-dao and fellow Chinese physicist Chen Ning Yang won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of parity nonconservation under weak interactions. The theory was confirmed by the Wu experiment of another Chinese physicist, Wu Jianxiong. Lee was once the youngest Nobel Prize winner after World War II. This record was not broken until Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. He is also the fourth youngest Nobel Prize winner in history, behind William Lawrence Bragg (25 years old, 1915), Werner Heisenberg (30 years old, 1932) and Malala (17 years old, 2014). Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang are the first two Chinese Nobel Prize winners. Even after becoming a naturalized American citizen in 1963, Lee Tsung-dao was still the youngest American Nobel Prize winner.

Li Minhua (November 2, 1917 - January 19, 2013), female, native of Suzhou, Jiangsu, is an expert in solid mechanics in China, a researcher at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li Fanghua (January 6, 1932 - January 24, 2020), female, native of Deqing, Guangdong, born in Hong Kong, Chinese physicist, researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, former chairman of the Chinese Electron Microscopy Society, and editor of the "Chinese Journal of Physics".

Li Shizhen (July 3, 1518 - 1593), whose courtesy name was Dongbi and whose late name was Binghushan, was from Qizhou, Huguang (now Qizhou Town, Qichun County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province). His native place was Shanghang, Fujian. He was born in the Ming Dynasty He is one of the most famous medical scientists, pharmacists and naturalists in Chinese history. His "Compendium of Materia Medica" is a comprehensive work on materia medica and has a profound influence on later generations of medical and natural history research. Li Shizhen, Bian Que, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing are known as the four famous doctors in ancient China.

Li Chaoyi (July 28, 1934 - August 11, 2018), Chinese neurobiologist. Born in Chongqing. Graduated from China Pharmaceutical University in 1956. Senior researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1999, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li Weige (1867-1929), also known as Yiqin and Yiqin, was originally from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He was a translator in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and the founder of China's modern metallurgical industry.

Li Jitong (August 24, 1897 - December 12, 1961), male, born in Xinghua, Jiangsu, was a Chinese botanist, ecologist, educator, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A pioneer of plant physiology in China and one of the founders of plant ecology and geobotany. He is an outstanding member of the Li family in Xinghua. His son Li Deping is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has a good reputation.

Li Yanda (October 12, 1936 -), male, originally from Nanhai, Guangdong, was born in Dongguan, Guangdong. He is an expert in signal processing and intelligent control in China, a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Yuan-Tseh Lee (English: Yuan-Tseh Lee, November 19, 1936-), was born in Hsinchu City, Hsinchu Prefecture, Japanese-occupied Taiwan (now East District of Hsinchu City), a Taiwanese chemist and an honorary professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1986, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Dudley Hirschbach and John Charles Polanyi. He was also the first Nobel Prize winner born and raised in Taiwan. Li Yuanzhe is an academician of Academia Sinica and an honorary member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences. He has served as President of Academia Sinica (1994-2006), President of the International Science Council (2011-2014), Honorary President of the Institute for Advanced Study, Nagoya University, and Counselor of the Presidential Office of the Republic of China.

Li Feifei (July 3, 1976 -), the first Sequoia Chair Professor at Stanford University, an academician of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (American Academy of Arts and Sciences). He once worked at the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and the Stanford Vision Laboratory. He is currently the chief scientist and principal researcher of ImageNet, the director of Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI), and the co-founder and chairman of AI4ALL. Her research fields include computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, cognitive neuroscience, etc.

Yang Zhenning (October 1, 1922 - October 18, 2025), who used the English names Frank and Franklin, was a native of Hefei, Anhui, and his ancestral home was Fengyang, Anhui. He was a Chinese theoretical physicist who made outstanding contributions in the fields of particle physics, statistical physics, condensed matter physics and other fields. Yang Zhenning is the eldest son of mathematician Yang Wuzhi. He was admitted to the Southwest Associated University in 1937 to study for undergraduate and master's degrees, and then entered the University of Chicago in 1945 as a publicly funded student studying in the United States to study for a doctoral degree. After graduating in 1948, he briefly served as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, and then worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1949 to 1966. In 1954, he jointly proposed the Yang-Mills theory with Robert Mills, laying the foundation for gauge field theory. In 1956, he and Li Zhengdao jointly proposed the parity non-conservation theory. After the theory was experimentally confirmed by Wu Jianxiong's group, it was quickly recognized by the academic community. Yang and Li also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, becoming the earliest Chinese Nobel Prize winners. In 1964, Chen Ning Yang became a U.S. citizen and served as a professor at Stony Brook University two years later until 1999. Since then, he has served as a professor at Tsinghua University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and became a citizen of the People's Republic of China in 2015. Yang Zhenning passed away in Beijing on October 18, 2025, at the age of 103.

Yang You (October 17, 1917 -), male, native of Jurong, Jiangsu Province, born in Beijing, is a ship design expert in the People's Republic of China.

Jack Thomas Andraka (English: Jack Thomas Andraka, January 8, 1997 -), or translated as Jack Andraka, is an American inventor, scientist, and cancer researcher. He is the 2012 Intel Science Competition grand prize winner. Andraka won the Gordon E. Moore Award for his work on finding new ways to detect pancreatic cancer. The Moore Prize, named after one of the co-founders of Intel, carries a prize of $75,000. He also won other smaller awards totaling $100,500.