Wang Enge

Wang was born into a wealthy and highly educated family in Shenyang, Liaoning.{{cite web |url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/203691/8321736.html |title=Wang Enge: the 26th president in the history of Peking University |date=2013 |publisher=People }}{{cite web |url= http://english.pku.edu.cn/AboutPKU/MessagefromthePresident/ |title=Message from the President |date=2013 |publisher=Peking University }} During the Down to the Countryside Movement, he became a sent-down youth in Liaozhong County. After the Cultural Revolution, he was accepted to Liaoning University in December 1977, obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in theoretical physics.{{cite web |url=http://icqm.pku.edu.cn/contents/70/90.html |title=Enge Wang |date=2013 |publisher= }} Before graduation, Wang went to study in America at Princeton University.{{Non-primary source needed|date=April 2024}} Wang received his Ph.D. from Peking University in July 1990.{{cite web |url=http://english.cast.org.cn/n1181872/n1182069/13438814.html |title=Wang Enge |date=2013 |publisher= }} In January 1992, Wang attended the University of Lille Nord de France.{{cite news|script-title=zh:执掌北大校印的著名物理学家——王恩哥院士侧记|url=http://pkunews.pku.edu.cn/xwzh/2013-03/22/content_267248.htm|accessdate=2013-12-29|newspaper=Peking University|date=2013-03-22}}

In 2007, Wang was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the age of 50.{{cite web|script-title=zh:王恩哥 北京大学党委常委、校长|url=http://www.pku.edu.cn/about/ldjg/xzh/weg.jsp|work=Peking University |date=2013-12-29}} In 2009, Wang served as the President of School of Physics of Peking University. On 22 March 2013, Wang was promoted to become the President of Peking University. He is a recipient of the 2005 TWAS Prize.{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/opportunities/prizes-and-awards |title=Prizes and Awards |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}} Wang also received the Advanced Materials Laureate in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Advanced Materials Laureate {{!}} IAAM Awards |url=https://www.iaamonline.org/advanced-materials-laureate |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=IAAM |language=en}} He is also the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (2008), a Senior Fellow of Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (2019), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006), and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2003).

• Y. Guo, Y.F. Zhang, X.Y. Bao, T.Z. Han, Z. Tang, L.X. Zhang, W.G. Zhu, E.G. Wang, Q. Niu, Z.Q. Qiu, J.F. Jia, Z.X Zhao, and Q.K. Xue, Science 306, 1915 (2004), Superconductivity modulated by quantum size effects.
• G. Y. Zhang, X.D. Bai, X. Jiang, and E.G. Wang, Science 303, 766d (2004), Tubular Graphite Cones -Response.
• G. Y. Zhang, X. Jiang, and E.G. Wang, Science 300, 472 (2003), Tubular Graphite Cones.
• Xiaolin Li, Guangyu Zhang, Xuedong Bai, Xiaoming Sun, Xinran Wang, Enge Wang and Hongjie Dai, Nature Nanotechnology 3, 538(2008), Highly conducting graphene sheets and Langmuir–Blodgett films.

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Category:1957 births

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