1. Li Shu-hua was a Chinese biophysicist and politician.
11 Facts About Li Shu-hua
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Li Shu-hua was an educator, and administrator at Beijing University and a Chinese diplomat.
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Li Shu-hua went to France where he earned a doctorate in physics.
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Li Shu-hua relocated to New York City in 1953 and died of a heart attack there in 1979.
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Li Shu-hua studied under a number of renowned professors, among them Nobel laureates Paul Sabatier, Gabriel Lippmann and Marie Curie.
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Li Shu-hua returned to China in 1922 and served as professor of physics at Peking University until 1930.
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Li Shu-hua served concurrently as the acting president of the University Franco-Chinois in Peking and then as acting president of Peiping University.
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Li Shu-hua became a member of the Research Council, Academia Sinica in 1935 and was its director-general in 1943.
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Li Shu-hua was twice elected chairman of the board of directors of the Chinese Society of Physics, and once of the Chinese Society of Astronomers.
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Li Shu-hua served on the Boards of Directors of the Beijing Natural History Museum and the Beijing National Central Museum and the Peiping Palace Museum.
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Li Shu-hua won a research award from the Society of Sigma Xi and the Scientific Research Society in 1958.