Asian Americans in science and technology
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Asian Americans have made many notable contributions to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. David T. Wong was one of the scientists credited with the discovery of ground-breaking drug Fluoxetine as well as the discovery of atomoxetine, duloxetine and dapoxetine with colleagues.[4][5][6] Michio Kaku
has popularized science and has appeared on multiple programs on television and radio.
Award recipients
Physics
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Chinese immigrants
Chen Ning Yang received the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics
for theoretical work demonstrating that the conservation of parity did not always hold and became American citizens in the early 1960s.
American born
Daniel Tsui shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998 for helping discover the fractional Quantum Hall effect. Yoichiro Nambu received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the consequences of spontaneously broken symmetries in field theories. In 2009, Charles K. Kao was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication." Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes. Syukuro Manabe
received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work modeling Earth’s climate.
Chemistry
Organic light-emitting diode and Organic solar cell and was awarded the 2011 Wolf Prize
in Chemistry for this achievement.
Mathematics
Yitang Zhang is a Chinese-born American mathematician working in the area of number theory. While working for the University of New Hampshire as a lecturer, Zhang submitted an article to the Annals of Mathematics in 2013 which established the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers, which led to a 2014 MacArthur award.
Other
David D. Ho
first reported the "healthy carrier state" of HIV infection, which identified HIV-positive individuals who showed no physical signs of AIDS.
Space
Indian American in space, but died aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia. She has since been followed by CDR Sunita Williams in 2006
.
References
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- ^ McDougal, Connie (1997). "The Faith of a Scientist: Alumnus of the Year David T. Wong Devotes a Lifetime to Neuroscience Research". Office of University Communications. Seattle Pacific University. Retrieved September 17, 2012.