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Xue Qikun
Xue Qikun (; born December 1963) is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has done much work in condensed matter physics, especially on superconductors and topological insulators. In 2013, Xue was the first to achieve the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), an unusual orderly motion of electrons in a conductor, in his laboratory at Tsinghua University. Xue is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president for research of Tsinghua University, and director of State Key Lab of Quantum Physics. In 2016, he was one of the first recipients of the new Chinese Future Science Prize for experimental discovery of high-temperature superconductivity at material interfaces and the QAHE. This award has been described as "China's Nobel Prize". Career Xue earned his PhD from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994. From 1994 to 2000, he worked as a research associate at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xue (surname)
Xue () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean language, Korean, it corresponds to Seol (Korean name), Seol (설), in Japanese language, Japanese to Setsu and in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese to Tiết. in Indonesia and Netherlands, it is commonly spelled as Siek. According to the Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, 2010 Chinese Census, it is the List of common Chinese surnames, 76th most common surname in China, a sharp decline from 48th in 1982. In a study by geneticist Yuan Yida on the Chinese surname#Distribution of surnames, distribution of Chinese surnames, people who carry the name Xue are dispersed throughout the country and is most heavily concentrated in Shanxi. It is the 68th name on the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem.K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |