List of Chinese inventors and discoverers
The List of Chinese Inventors and Discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from China in alphabetical order by family name.
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Chen Ning Yang , 1957
- Cai Lun , is considered to be the inventor of paper , although it has been proven that it has been around since the 2nd century BC. Gave paper (before his birth)
- Min Chueh Chang , biologist, learned the process of in vitro fertilization in 1945 from Gregory Pincus in Worcester at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research. It was there that he and Pincus carried out the fundamental research into developing the birth control pill .
- Thomas Chang
- To Chongzhi : mathematician and astronomer; Provisions on the sidereal and tropical year, the length of the year and the orbit of the moon and Jupiter. He also worked on algebra and equations. He was already using the Cavalieri method 1000 years before Bonaventura Cavalieri
- Chen Ning Yang , physicist, 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics "for her fundamental research on the laws of so-called parity, which led to important discoveries about elementary particles"
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- Hua Sui
- Huang Daopo
- Huang Hongjia
- Liu Hui : mathematician; the computation of pi by inscribing regular polygons in the circle. He suggested 3.14 as a good approximation, solving systems of linear equations using a procedure later known as Gaussian Elimination Method, the computation of the volumes of prism, pyramid, tetrahedron, cylinder, cone and truncated cone.
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- Qin Jiushao : mathematician
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Confucius , traditional representation from the Tang period
- Charles K. Kao , physicist, pioneer in the field of fiber optics (2009: Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Confucius , Confucianism
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- Laozi (actual existence disputed), Daoism
- Tsung-Dao Lee , physicist, 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics "for her fundamental research on the laws of so-called parity, which led to important discoveries about elementary particles"
- Robin Li , entrepreneur, founder of the Chinese search portal Baidu
- Liang Lingzan
- Hung-Chang Lin
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- Ma Jun , compass car , a vehicle that uses a differential gear to indicate its direction of travel
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- Li Shanlan : mathematician; Formula of combinatorics (summation formula for binomial coefficients)
- Shen Kuo , inventor of the compass for navigation. He is considered the most important scientist of the Song Dynasty
- Zhu Shijie : mathematician; decisive knowledge in arithmetic and algebra
- Su Song , polymath, invented a water-powered astronomical clock
- Simon Sze , electrical engineer, assisted in the discovery of the floating gate transistor by the South Korean Dawon Kahng
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- Ching W. Tang , chemist, inventor of the organic LED (OLED)
- Tang Zhongming
- Meng Tian
- Daniel Chee Tsui (China / United States): Physicist, quantum Hall effect , "for their discovery of a new type of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" (Nobel Prize for Physics) (together with Robert Betts Laughlin and Horst Ludwig Störmer)
- Tu Youyou , pharmacologist, isolated the phytochemical artemisinin used to treat malaria from annual mugwort
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- Xi Zhong , astronomer
- Jia Xian : mathematician
- Wang Xiaotong : mathematician
- Xie Fei
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- Yi Xing
- Li Ye : mathematician
- Yuan Longping
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Zhang Heng (Chinese postage stamp, 1955)
- Zhang Heng , inventor of an early seismograph , reformed the Chinese calendar system in 123
- Zheng He , Admiral, seven sea voyages to East Africa / Arabian Peninsula (transport of a giraffe to China)
- Zhuge Liang , Politician, Northern Expeditions , alleged inventor of the Kong Ming Lantern