{"48183":{"#nid":"48183","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Z.L. Wang Elected as Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Prof. Zhong Lin Wang is one of six foreign scientists selected as academicians to be inducted into the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) this year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA CAS academician title is the highest Chinese academic achievement in science and technology and a lifelong honor. New foreign members are added every two years, with no more than 60 total native and six foreign academicians chosen during each election. A total of six foreign and 35 native academicians were elected for 2009.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWang is the youngest foreign academician to be inducted and the first from any Georgia educational institution. He is also the first foreign member to be named by CAS among the half million Chinese students sent overseas from China for studies\u0026nbsp; for studying from China since 1980.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022This is the most prestigious honor I have received, and it will set my career to a new horizon from where I will work toward my new goals,\u0022 Wang said. \u0022I am very honored to be accompanied by these world-class distinguished scholars. It will inspire me to make more contributions in science in years to come.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe new native academicians were selected from 296 candidates. These new members include six from the mathematics and physics division, eight from chemistry division, five from the life sciences and medical sciences division, five from the earth sciences division, four from the information technological sciences division and seven from the technological sciences division. Wang\u0027s acclaimed work in materials science and nanotechnology stood out to the academy members who championed his membership.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022He is one of the best overseas Chinese professors in the field of materials science and physics worldwide,\u0022 said Dr. Ze Zhang, an executive member of the CAS who spearheaded Wang\u0027s membership. \u0022His discoveries and inventions involving nano-electricity motorsgenerators have been well recognized by the international science community and the general public as one of the most influential technologies of the next decade.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecognizing Wang, Zhang said, also sends a message of encouragement to the millions of Chinese researchers who have traveled abroad to complete their studies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022If the CAS can recognize their excellent work, it will promote more overseas Chinese to devote themselves to world science world wide, which in turn shall promote the Chinese science in China,\u0022 he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn induction ceremony for Wang and the other new academicians will be held next June in Beijing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022We are thrilled that Dr. Wang\u0027s extraordinary work has been acknowledged by his membership in the CAS,\u0022 said Don Giddens, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering. \u0022This prestigious honor reflects his groundbreaking accomplishments in nanoscience and further enhances Georgia Tech\u0027s reputation as a worldwide hub for nanotechnology. Election as a foreign member of the CAS is reserved for only a select few, and we are extremely pleased to have ZL as a member of our faculty.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CAS is the leading academic institution and comprehensive research and development center in natural science, technological science and high-tech innovation in China.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Zhong Lin Wang has been selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Zhong Lin Wang has been selected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2009-12-18 11:19:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"48181":{"id":"48181","type":"image","title":"Z.L. 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