美國藝術與科學院2013年院士名單出爐，198人成為新一屆院士。本國院士包括莊小威、郁彬、安德魯·羅(音譯)等3名華人教授，外籍榮譽院士包括中國清華大學施一公教授。
San Francisco (CNS) -- Four Chinese are among the 198 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), according to the academy on Friday.
They are: Zhuang Xiaowei, professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics at Harvard University; Yu Bin, professor in the Department of Statistics at University of California, Berkeley; and Andrew W. Lo, professor of Finance and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management; and Professor Shi Yigong of China's Tsinghua University, who is one of 12 Foreign Honorary Members.
The new members are leaders in a wide range of academic disciplines, and included prominent scholars, scientists, writers, artists, business leaders and philanthropists.
They will attend the award ceremony on Oct 12 at the academy headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
Founded in 1780, AAAS is one of the most renowned academic institutions in the US.
It has a membership of 4,000 American fellows and 600 foreign honorary members, including 250 Nobel laureates and over 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Former US presidents George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, statesman Daniel Webster, writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, scientist Albert Einstein and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were among its members.
美國藝術與科學院2013年院士名單出爐，198人成為新一屆院士。本國院士包括莊小威、郁彬、安德魯·羅(音譯)等3名華人教授，外籍榮譽院士包括中國清華大學施一公教授。
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