13 Facts About Shu Xingbei

Shu Xingbei, known as Hsin Pei Soh, was a Chinese physicist and educator.

In 1926, Shu Xingbei went to study physics in the United States, where he initially studied at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, but later transferred to the University of California, San Francisco.

In July 1927, Shu Xingbei left the US and travelled through Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Moscow, and Warsaw, eventually reaching Germany where he principally visited Berlin, Hannover and Hamburg.

Finally, in February 1930 Shu Xingbei went to the University of Cambridge, and worked under Arthur Stanley Eddington, who that August advised him to return to the US to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In September 1931, Shu Xingbei returned to China, largely due to pressure from his mother to marry his fiancee, Ge Chuhua.

Shu Xingbei received in 1978 the Wolf Prize in physics.

In 1952, Shu Xingbei was transferred to the Department of Physics at Shandong University in Jinan, Shandong Province, then in 1954 to its Department of Oceanography.

In June 1958, during the Anti-Rightist Movement, Shu Xingbei was denounced as an ultra-rightist and an anti-revolutionary.

In 1960, Shu Xingbei was transferred to the Qingdao Medical College as a teacher, although he was obliged to clean toilets in the college and to wash lab equipment.

On 11 September 1974, Shu Xingbei partially regained his normal life.

In 1978, Shu Xingbei was transferred to the Chinese State Oceanic Administration where he became a professor and senior researcher for oceanic dynamics at its First Research Institute of Oceanography.

In 1979, when the Oceanic Physics Branch of the Chinese Society of Oceanography was established in Guangzhou, Shu Xingbei was elected its honorary director-general.

Shu Xingbei died on 30 October 1985, at the age of 77.