30 Facts About Xie Xide

Xie Xide, known as Hsi-teh Hsieh and as Hilda Hsieh, was a Chinese physicist.

Xie Xide was president of Fudan University from 1983 to 1989, and remained as advisor to the university from 1989 until her death.

Xie Xide helped to set up the university's Centre for American Studies and founded its Modern Physics Institute in 1977.

Xie Xide was born March 19,1921, in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian, southeastern China.

Xie Xide was born into a family that valued education.

Xie Xide attended Yenching Elementary School and was a top student in school.

Xie Xide met Cao Tianqin when Cao transferred to Yenching.

In 1942, not only did Xie Xide survive, through her self-study at home, she was admitted to Xiamen University to study physics and mathematics.

Xie Xide taught at University of Shanghai for a year, and then was able to get a scholarship to study for a master's degree in physics at Smith College in the United States, graduating in 1949.

Xie Xide continued her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Ph.

Xie Xide was detained in the US despite her strong willingness to return to her motherland.

Cao Tianqin and Xie Xide were married in UK; their son, Cao Weizheng, was born in 1956.

Xie Xide served in this position from 1952 to 1956.

Xie Xide became an associate professor at Fudan and served in that capacity from 1956 to 1962.

Xie Xide was an outstanding educational leader, and a key figure in the development of China's educational relations with the international community.

Xie Xide was a joint-author of one of the most widely used physics textbooks in China, "Semiconductor Physics".

In 1966, as numerous Cultural Revolution victims among China's educated scholars, Xie Xide was sent to do hard labor choirs despite her illness; she was later diagnosed with breast cancer.

Xie Xide did not give up and still dedicated herself fully to education.

In 1978, National Science Conference in Beijing was held and Xie Xide resumed her occupation.

Xie Xide was appointed vice president of Fudan in 1978, and President in 1983, serving in that capacity until 1988.

Xie Xide was the first woman president of a major comprehensive university in the PRC.

Xie Xide pursued a distinguished career as a scientist, making important contributions in the field of solid-state physics.

Xie Xide was appointed to the Communist Party's Central Committee in 1982 and served as one of 210 full members.

Xie Xide was since paralyzed in bed and suffered memory loss.

Xie Xide continued doing so for 8 years until Cao died in 1995.

Xie Xide continued her work in hospital as she fought with cancer.

Xie Xide died on March 4,2000 and donated her whole body to China's medical research.

Xie Xide published more than eighty papers and several books and monographs.

Xie Xide had received honorary doctorates from twelve universities worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong and China.

Xie Xide was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an Academician of The World Academy of Sciences, and a Distinguished Scholar of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with The People's Republic of China.