About Shouguan Wang
Lived 1923 – 2021 (aged 98). Shouguan Wang was a Taiwanese and Chinese physicist and astrophysicist.
Wang Shouguan (; 15 January 1923 – 28 January 2021) was a Chinese astronomer, president and honorary president of the . He was hailed as one of the founders of modern astrophysics and radio astronomy in China. In 1936, at the age of 13, he entered , he studied navigation at the beginning, but switched to shipbuilding later because of myopia.
Honours and awards 1980 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 1996 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation 1998 Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
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Who was Shouguan Wang?
Chinese astronomer (1923–2021)
When was Shouguan Wang born?
Shouguan Wang was born on 15 January 1923 in Fuzhou.
When did Shouguan Wang die?
Shouguan Wang died on 28 January 2021 in Beijing.
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Shouguan Wang was a physicist and astrophysicist.
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Shouguan Wang was Taiwanese and Chinese.
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