The Chinese Academy of Sciences was established in Beijing on 1 November 1949, weeks after the founding of the People's Republic, consolidating the research staff and facilities of the Nationalist-era Academia Sinica, founded 1928, and the Beiping Academy of Sciences under the new government. It has no single founder in the way a laboratory has one; it was created by state decree as the country's highest academic institution in the natural sciences. It now runs more than a hundred research institutes across China and elects academicians, a lifetime honorary title, from among the country's leading scientists. Qian Xuesen, who returned to China in 1955 after five years under house arrest in the United States on unproven espionage charges, was a founding academician and became the founding director of its Institute of Mechanics in 1956, going on to lead the country's ballistic missile and space rocket programmes.
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Qian Xuesen, Scientists Founding academician; founding director of the Academy's Institute of Mechanics, 1956.
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is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China
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He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ==Early life and education== Gross wa
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In 2015, he was elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and won the 10th annual Henry G. Fries
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Fellow of Singapore Institute of Physics, Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Geim was furthermore made a Knight Bac
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In 2025, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ===Awards and honours=== * 2010 Lever
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He is retired from the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering. Şengör is a (foreign) member of the American Philosophical Society, Academia Europaea (1990), the United States National Academy of Sciences (2000), Russian Academy of Sciences (2006), Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018) Accademia nazionale delle scienze (2023), Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2024), and Chinese Academy of Sciences (2025).
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