Shoucheng Zhang

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Full Name	Shoucheng Zhang
Occupation	American Physicist
Date Of Birth	Feb 15, 1963(1963-02-15)
Age	61
Birthplace	Shanghai
Country	China
Horoscope	Aquarius

Shoucheng Zhang Biography

Shoucheng Zhang is one of the most popular and richest American physicist who was born on February 15, 1963 in Shanghai, China. Zhang was born in Shanghai, China in 1963. He was admitted to Fudan University in 1978 at 15 years old and then went to America in the year 1980 to learn in the Free University of Berlin in West Berlin, where he earned his B.S. diploma in the year 1983. Then, he pursued master’s education through Stony Brook University (then referred to as State University of New York, Stony Brook). At Stony Brook it was where he first focused on supergravity (and received the Ph.D. in 1987) alongside his advisor Peter van Nieuwenhuizen. He then began switching to condensed matter based on the guidance of his idol, Nobel laureate Chen-Ning Yang. In his final year at Stony Brook the researcher moved to condensed matter science under the direction from Steven Kivelson.

Zhang was a member of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Zhang was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 The Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 2009 as well as the Europhysics Prize in 2010, the Oliver Buckley Prize in 2012 and The Dirac Medal and Prize in 2012 and The Physics Frontiers Prize in 2013 and in 2013, the “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates by Thomson Reuters in 2014, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2015. He was named among the best contenders of Nobel Prize Nobel Prize by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He was elected an associate part of the US National Academy of Sciences in the year 2015.

Between the years 2010–2015, Zhang and his group of physicists at Stanford University wrote three theoretical papers where they successfully showed how to test Ettore Majorana’s theory of Majorana fermion, or what had previously been only a scientific hypothesis that a particle can be its own antiparticle, without the need of external forces having the same mass with the opposite charge of the electron.

Earlier, Zhang also made significant contributions to other areas of physics. He and collaborators derived a topological (Chern–Simons form) quantum field theoretic description of the novel properties of fractional quantum Hall liquids, and proposed a global phase diagram for the quantum Hall states with many features that have had since been experimentally observed. He generalized the theory of fractional quantum Hall effect to higher dimensions and related it to fundamental particle physics. He also proposed an influential theory of high-temperature superconductivity based on an extended symmetry principle.

In the early 2000s, Zhang and collaborators revitalized the field of spintronics writing about an internal spin Hall effect and linking it to geometrical phases of quantum mechanics. This idea led to extensive research both in the theoretical and experimental areas as well as helped in later developments regarding Quantum spin Hall effects as well as topological insulators in general.

Shoucheng Zhang Net Worth

Shoucheng Zhang is one of the richest American Physicist from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shoucheng Zhang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shoucheng Zhang (Chinese: Zhang Shou Cheng (February 15, 1963 until December 1, 2018) was a Chinese-American physicist . He served as his JG Jackson as well as the CJ Wood instructor of Physics in Stanford University. He was a condensed-matter theorist who was known for his research on topological insulators and the quantum Hall effect as well as quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics and superconductivity at high temperatures. According to the National Academy of Science:

Zhang worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the ITP located in Santa Barbara from 1987 to 1989. Then, he was a part of the IBM Almaden Research Center as Research Staff member from 1989 until 1993. Then he was recruited to Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Physics. Since 2004, he was a (by by courtesy appointment) the titles of Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. In 2007 Zhang’s discovery of the “quantum spin Hall effect” discovered by Zhang was classified as among the “Top Ten Important Scientific Breakthroughs in the World” by Science magazine. In 2010, Zhang received the title of J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor in Physics.

In 2009, Zhang was chosen to be a part of an expert panel for the Thousand Talents Program. In 2013, Zhang created Danhua Capital, a venture capital firm, which raised $434.5 million across two funds. Danhua Capital’s major investors include state-owned Beijing government enterprise Zhongguancun Development Group (ZDG), which has been linked to the Chinese technology transfer program Made in China 2025. He also served as an independent non- executive director at Lenovo Group and at Meitu.

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