Woo Chia-wei
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Chia-Wei Woo Chu Ching-wu | |
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11th President of San Francisco State University | |
In office 1983–1988 | |
Preceded by | Paul F. Romberg |
Succeeded by | Robert A. Corrigan |
Personal details | |
Born | 1937 (age 86–87) Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Northwestern University University of California, San Diego San Francisco State University |
Thesis | Theory of the normal ground state of liquid helium three (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Feenberg |
Chia-Wei Woo
Education and academia
Born in Shanghai in 1937, he received his secondary education from
Since 1964, Woo has published 120 papers and books in various fields of physics, particularly in quantum
Honors and awards
Woo has received many honours and awards for professional achievement and civic contribution, including Fellowships of the American Physical Society[5] and the California Academy of Sciences; the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; Honorary Professorships at Fudan University, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Physics), Shenzhen University, and Peking University; the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award by the United Nations Association; the Golden Key of the City of San Francisco; Chia-Wei Woo Day was declared by the Mayor of San Francisco. [citation needed]
He was National President of the National Association of Chinese-Americans during 1984–86. He was the US China Olympics Liaison for the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles. In 1991, he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater, Washington University. [citation needed]
Honours
In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Georgetown College, and was named an Honorary Citizen by the Municipal Government of
Political career
He has served on Hong Kong Government's Industry and Technology Development Council and the Board of Overseers for the Institutes of Biotechnology, and was appointed by the Municipal Government of Shenzhen as Senior Advisor. He served on governing and advisory boards of the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Council for the Promotion and Development of Yangtze, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fudan University, Hua Qiao University, Zhongguancun Science Park (Advisory Committee), Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (Pakistan), World Scientific Publishing Company (Singapore), and China Europe International Business School. [citation needed]
From 1993–96, he was appointed by the Chinese government, first as a
References
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- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Centennial Historical Presidents". San Francisco State University. 20 March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012.
- ^ "APS fellow archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Doctor of Business Administration honoris causa — Professor Chia-Wei WOO — Citation" (PDF). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 April 2020.