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 Sketch of Yan Jici by Xu Beihong (1927) | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 嚴濟慈 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 严济慈 | ||||||||||||||
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Yan Jici (Chinese: 严济慈; Wade–Giles: Yen Chi-tz'u; 23 January 1901 – 2 November 1996), also commonly known as Ny Tsi-ze,[1] was a Chinese physicist and politician who is considered a founder of modern physics in China. He was a founding member of Academia Sinica in 1948 and of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1955. He served as founding director of the CAS Institute of Physics and the second president of the University of Science and Technology of China (1980–1984).
In politics, he was a delegate to seven consecutive National People's Congresses (1st to 7th), and served as Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress from 1983 to 1993.
- ^ Romanization he used according to Wu Chinese pronunciation.