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List of modern scientists from Shanghai

Shanghai is the cultural center of the Yangtze Delta Region in China. In late Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi started introducing European science to China.^{[citation needed]} Some notable modern scientists from Shanghai are listed below.

Notations

Notations for memberships of academies

United States of America:
- Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences = FM/M-NAS
- Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering = FM/M-NAE
- Foreign Member/Member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academies = FM/M-IM
- Member/Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences = M/F-AAAS
- Member of the New York Academy of Sciences = M-NYAS
United Kingdom:
- Fellow of the Royal Society = FRS
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering = FRAE
- Fellow of the British Academy = FBA
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh = FRSE
Germany:
- Foreign Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina = FM-GASL
- Foreign Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities = FM-BASH
France:
- Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences = FM-FAS
Russia:
- Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences = FM-RAS
- Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering = FM-RAE
Republic of China/Taiwan:
- Academician/Member of the Academia Sinica = M-AS
People's Republic of China:
- Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences = FM/M-CAS
- Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering = FM/M-CAE
Other:
- Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences = M-TWAS
- Member of the International Academy of Astronautics = M-IAA

Notations for personal profiles

Priority: Hometown > birthplace > study/work (based on traditional Chinese convention)
Hometown: h.
Birthplace: b.
Have trained/studied in Shanghai: s.
Have worked in Shanghai: w.