Wang Wei (; 25 December 1937 – 26 January 2023) was a Chinese scientist specializing in

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...

Biography

Wang was born in

Wen'an County Wen'an () is a county in the central part of Hebei province, China, on the upper reaches of the Daqing River (), a tributary of the Hai River, and bordering Tianjin to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lan ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

, on 25 December 1937. After graduating from the Department of Physics,

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 ...

in 1960, he was despatched to the Institute of Semiconductors,

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

Personal life and death

Wang married Wu Dexin, who is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wand died on 26 January 2023, at the age of 85.

Honours and awards

* 1997 Member of the

(CAS)

References

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Wang Wei
on the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences {{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Wei 1937 births 2023 deaths People from Wen'an County Scientists from Hebei Peking University alumni Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 20th-century Chinese physicists 21st-century Chinese physicists