List of Peking University people

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Before moving to the campus of Yenching University in the northwestern suburbs, Peking University was based in the "red building" in downtown Beijing. Red building of Peking University.JPG
Before moving to the campus of Yenching University in the northwestern suburbs, Peking University was based in the "red building" in downtown Beijing.

This is a list of people associated with Peking University in China. Several notable individuals have been associated with Peking University.

Contents

Faculty

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Faculty of the Imperial Capital University in the late Qing Dynasty

Officers and administrators

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Cai Yuanpei, early University Chancellor

Alumni

Writers

Academics

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Hu Shih with visiting guests at the Peking University
  • Michael Halliday – developed systemic functional grammar
  • Tian Gang 田刚 – mathematician
  • Tang Tao 汤涛 - mathematician
  • Li Yining 厉以宁 – economist
  • Tsung-Dao Lee (Li Zhengdao) 李政道 B.S. 1946 – Honorary professor, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
  • Jingjing Liang 梁晶晶 B.S. 2001– forest ecologist, founder of Science-i and the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative, and Perdue University faculty
  • Yang Zhenning 杨振宁 B.S. 1942 – Honorary professor (at Tsinghua as well), physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, 1957
  • Justin Yifu Lin 林毅夫 – economist (now the chief economist of World Bank)
  • Yu Jie – First house church leader to meet an American president (May 2006, meeting George W Bush in the White House)
  • Yu Min – physicist, Father of Chinese H-bombs
  • Luo Jialun 罗家伦 – leader of the May Fourth Movement, president of Tsinghua University
  • Fu Sinian 傅斯年 – educator and linguist; leader of the May Fourth Movement, creators of the Academia Sinica, former president of National Taiwan University
  • Gu Jiegang 顾颉刚 – a Chinese historian; the founder of the Skeptical school of early Chinese history, known as yigupai; best known for the seven volume work Gushi Bian (古史辨 "Debates on Ancient History").
  • Shang Yue 尚钺 – a Chinese economic historian and an author; best known for his contribution on the idea of sprouts of capitalism
  • Ren Jiyu 任继愈 – Chinese historian and philosopher, former director of the National Library.
  • Deng Jiaxian 邓稼先 – a nuclear physics expert; a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs.
  • Qian Sanqiang 钱三强 – a nuclear physicist and education administrator; a leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs; former president of Zhejiang University
  • Zhu Guangya 朱光亚 – a renowned nuclear physicist of China, key contributor to China's "Two Bombs, One Satellite" projects.
  • Zhou Guangzhao 周光召 – expert on particle physics, discoverer of PCAC (partial conservation of axial current), an important step toward the understanding of symmetry breaking; former director of the Chinese Nuclear Weapons Research Institute and president of the Academica Sinica.
  • Gang Liu 刘刚 - a mathematician and computer scientist.
  • Ji Xianlin - linguist, historian, indologist, writer, vice president of Peking University (since 1978)
  • Yitang Zhang 张益唐 B.S. 1982, M.S. 1985, mathematician Discovered upper bond of prime numbers as close to 70, 000, 000, and won Ostrowski Prize (2013) Cole Prize (2014) Rolf Schock Prize (2014) MacArthur Fellowship (2014).
  • Li Bulou 李步楼 - a translator and philosopher.
  • Yingying Zhang [6]
  • Tu Youyou 屠呦呦 - a pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which has saved millions of lives. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura.
  • Yuan Tung-li 袁同礼 - former director of the National Library of China
  • Mi Zhang - professor at Michigan State University

In politics

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The gate of the Flora Temple on the eastern bank of the Weiming Lake

In business and media

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Boya Pagoda by the Weiming Lake, one of the landmarks on the campus

Among the "top 300 richest in China" [7] 27 graduated from Beida, much higher than any other Chinese university. The second ranking school is Zhejiang University, with 17 alumni on the list.

Other

Including honorary professors and other associates:

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