Shanghai is the cultural center of the Yangtze Delta Region in China. In late Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi started introducing European science to China. Some notable modern scientists from Shanghai are listed below.
Notations for memberships of academies
United States of America: Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences = FM/M-NAS Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering = FM/M-NAE Foreign Member/Member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academies = FM/M-IM Member/Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences = M/F-AAAS Member of the New York Academy of Sciences = M-NYAS United Kingdom: Fellow of the Royal Society = FRS Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering = FRAE Fellow of the British Academy = FBA Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh = FRSE Germany: Foreign Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina = FM-GASL Foreign Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities = FM-BASH France: Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences = FM-FAS Russia: Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences = FM-RAS Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering = FM-RAE Republic of China/Taiwan: Academician/Member of the Academia Sinica = M-AS People's Republic of China: Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences = FM/M-CAS Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering = FM/M-CAE Other: Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences = M-TWAS Member of the International Academy of Astronautics = M-IAA
Notations for personal profiles
Priority: Hometown > birthplace > study/work (based on traditional Chinese convention) Hometown: h. Birthplace: b. Have trained/studied in Shanghai: s. Have worked in Shanghai: w.
Hometown Shanghai
For most Shanghainese scientists and engineers, their hometowns are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces.
Xie Xuejing (h. Shanghai; b. Beijing): M-CAS/TWCS
Terence Tao (ancestral hometown Shanghai, born Adelaide, Australia): Fields Medal laureate 2006