Richard W. Tsien
| Richard Winyu Tsien | |
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| Born |
錢永佑 March 3, 1945 Tating, Kweichow, People's Republic of China |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Neurobiology |
| Institutions | New York University Medical Center, Stanford University |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Oxford University College of Oxford |
| Spouse | Julia Shiang |
| Children | 3 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 錢永佑 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Qián Yǒngyòu |
Richard Winyu Tsien (born 3 March 1945), is a Chinese-born American neurobiologist and engineer. He is the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center, and also an emeritus faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine .
Tsien was born in Tating, Kweichow, China and is a descendant of the King of Wuyue Tsien Liu. Soon after his birth, Tsien's family moved to the United States.
Tsien received BS in 1965 and MS in 1966 both in electrical engineering and both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tsien then won a Rhodes Scholarship and went to study in UK at Wadham College, Oxford from 1966 to 1969. Tsien obtained PhD in biophysics from Oxford in 1970.
From 1968 to 1970, Tsien was a Weir Junior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford. From 1969 to 1970, Tsien was a teaching fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1970, Tsien went back to the United States, and became an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology at Yale University School of Medicine from 1970 to 1974. From 1974 to 1979, Tsien was an associate professor in the same department, and was promoted to full professor in 1979.
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