Fujia Yang
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Professor Fujia Yang (杨福家 Yang Fujia) is an academian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a renowned nuclear physicist and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England.
He was born in Shanghai and graduated in physics from Fudan University. He was a lecturer and professor of physics at Fudan, becoming President of the university from 1993-1999.
He was Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987-2001, was Chairman of the Shanghai Science and Technology Association from 1992-1996, and he was the first president of the Association of University Presidents of China from 1997-1999.
He has held visiting professorships at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark; Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA; the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA; and the University of Tokyo, Japan. He holds honorary degrees from Soka University, Tokyo, Japan; the State University of New York, USA; the University of Hong Kong; the University of Nottingham, England; and the University of Connecticut, USA.
Professor Yang Fujia was formally installed as The University of Nottingham's sixth Chancellor on 4 July 2001, the first time that a Chinese academic has become Chancellor of a UK university.
Other roles which Professor Yang has held include:
- Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987-2001
- Chairman of the Shanghai Science and Technology Association from 1992-1996
- President of the Association of Presidents of China from 1997-1999
- Visiting professorships at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen; Rutgers University, New Jersey; the State University of New York; and the University of Tokyo
- Council Member representing China on the Association of East Asia Research Universities
- Member of the International Association of University Presidents
- Member of the Association of University Presidents of the Pacific Rim
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