Shen Chun-shan
| Shen Chun-shan | |||||||||
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| Born |
29 August 1932 Nanjing, Republic of China |
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| Employer | National Tsing Hua University | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 沈君山 | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shěn Jūnshān |
| Wade–Giles | Shen3 Chun1 -shan1 |
Shen Chun-shan (born 29 August 1932) is a retired academic in Taiwan, most noted for his position as the former head of National Tsing Hua University. He is known as one of the "four princes of Taiwan" along with Chen Li-an, Fredrick Chien, and Lien Chan, all of whose fathers attained prominence in politics prior to their sons' successes.
Shen was born in Nanjing; his paternal family roots are in Yuyao, Zhejiang. His father Shen Chung-han was an agricultural expert. Shen's parents were both highly educated and had studied in the United States; his maternal grandfather also went to France as an exchange student. A propensity to strokes runs in his family; his maternal grandfather died of a stroke in his 30s while in France, and his mother died of the same cause when the young Shen himself was only 9. The young Shen followed his father to Taiwan a few years later in 1949. Shen's father rose to further political prominence in Taiwan, eventually becoming the chairman of the Council of Agriculture.
Shen graduated from National Taiwan University's physics department in 1955. In 1957, he left Taiwan for the United States, to enroll in a doctoral program in physics from the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1961. His dissertation was entitled "Dispersion relation for the electron impact width and shift of an isolated line". He went on teach at Princeton University and Purdue University as well as taking up a position at NASA.
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