Ai Guoxiang (February 1938), who publishes as Guoxiang Ai, is a Chinese
researcher,
inventor
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, and
astronomist who specialises in
space astronomy research and
solar physics. He was a past President of the
National Astronomical Observatories of China and an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Education and career
Guoxiang was educated at Ming De Middle School,
Changsha, China and graduated in 1963 from the Department of
Geophysics at the
Peking University
Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education.
Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...
and joined the National Observatories of China. He received the First prize of Chinese National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1987 for inventing the
Solar Magnetic Field Telescope and his research of the solar magnetic field and velocity filed has won the
State Science and Technology Prizes
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(formerly the Natural Science Award).
He is a member of the Shaw Prize's selection committee.
References
Living people
1938 births
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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