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12 unusual facts about Chinese Academy of Sciences


120569 Huangrunqian

It is named after Huang Runqian, an astrophysicist and educator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

27895 Yeduzheng

It is named after Ye Du-zheng, a Chinese meteorologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Guangde County

On July 19, 1964 China launched and recovered its first successful experimental biological rocket carrying eight white mice from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Base 603 launch site in Shijie Town (誓节镇) within the county.

Joseph Dauben

In 2002 Dauben became an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Lintong District

The National Time Service Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院国家授时中心), formerly known as Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory (陕西天文台), was established in 1966 in Lintong responsible for the time standard in mainland China.

Mengla County

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is located in Menglun in Mengla County, covering an area of more than 1000 ha.

MIT BBS

However, its history can be traced to two earlier forums: the Unknown BBS at Peking University, China from 1996-1997, followed by the Space BBS at Center for Space Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Shen Zhihua

He is director of the Center for Oriental History Studies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and honorary researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Shenzhou 7

The Shenzhou 7 project consists of seven subsystems, with the Chinese military responsible for launching, recovering, crew, and tracking subsystems, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation responsible for the carrier rocket and spacecraft itself, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences responsible for the payloads on board the spacecraft (other than the crew).

Wenying Zhuang

Wenying studied Plant Pathology in Department of Agronomy at the Shanxi Agricultural College (now Shanxi Agricultural University) from 1973 to 1975, smd then entered Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where she received a Master of Science degree in Mycology in 1985 She continued graduate study in Mycology at Cornell University, earning a Ph.D in 1987, under Richard P. Korf.

Xuanwu District, Nanjing

More than 70 academics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering are located in Jiangsu Province, almost half of them in Xuanwu District.

Zvi Arad

Since 1994 he has served on the editorial board of the Algebra Colloquium, a journal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published by Springer-Verlag.


Chang-Lin Tien

Tien was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Academia Sinica (in Taiwan), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in mainland China).

Engleromyces sinensis

The authors were studying members of the family Xylariaceae that were housed in the Mycological Herbarium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and discovered that five specimens collected from Yunnan Province in 1958, labeled as E. goetzii, did not match descriptions of the species published by Paul Christoph Hennings (1900), Curtis Gates Lloyd (1917), R.W.G. Dennis (1961) and Jack Rogers (1981).

International Society of Zoological Sciences

The Editor-in-Chief is Zhang Zhibin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Honorary Editor-in-Chief is John Buckeridge of RMIT University.

Leroy Chang

Honours bestowed on Chang included membership of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan.

Mozilla China

The organization is co-chaired by Dr. Li Gong of Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) and Mr. Mingshu Li of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), both of whom will sit on the steering committee with Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation.

Open64

The 2010 Open64 Developers Forum describes projects done at Absoft, AMD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, HP, National Tsing Hua University, Nvidia, Tensilica, Tsinghua University, and University of Houston.