Shih-Chun Wang

Shih-Chun Wang (January 25, 1910 – June 6, 1993) was a Chinese-American medical doctor, neuroscientist, and pharmacology professor.

Early life and education Wang was born on January 25, 1910, in Tianjin, China. He attended Yenching University in Beijing where he received a bachelor of science in 1931 before going to Peking Union Medical College to earn his medical degree in 1935. In 1937, Wang received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to travel to the United States to study neurology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He worked under the direction of S.W. Ransom at the Institute of Neurology in the Northwestern University Medical School where he received his Ph.D. in 1940. While still a student at Northwestern, Wang married the former Mamie Kwoh, a registered nurse from China.

Career From 1941 until 1956 he was a member of Columbia University's Department of Physiology, and after that he joined its Department of Pharmacology.

His research into motion sickness led to the creation of drugs to prevent problems such as vomiting. He studied nausea in astronauts for NASA, which helped lead to the creation of the vomit comet.

Later life After moving to New York City, Wang's wife Mamie taught nursing courses at the Cornell School of Nursing and helped develop the training program for nurse practitioners.

Wang also received the Sigma Xi Award at Northwestern University, a Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship, and an American Chinese Medical Society Scientific Achievement Award. He was elected a member of Academic Sinica and was an honorary member of the Chinese Pharmacological Society.

Selected publications