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Lee Yuan-tseh inducted in Pontifical Academy

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Lee Yuan-tseh, former president of Academia Sinica, was inducted Monday by Pope Benedict XVI into the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, making him only the fourth Chinese person to be bestowed the honor, local media reported yesterday.

Lee joins the ranks of fellow Chinese scientists Lee Tsung-dao, a Physics professor at Columbia University; Yang Chen-ning, a 1957 Nobel laureate in Physics; and the late Chang Te-tzu, an agriculture expert who helped improve rice cultivation in Taiwan. World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has also received the honor.

The Hsinchu native is a 1986 Nobel laureate in Chemistry and is currently with the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences.

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is an independent entity within the Holy see which aims to promote the progress of mathematical, physical and natural sciences and the study of epistemological problems. It was formerly the Academy of the Lincei which was founded in Rome in 1603 as the first exclusively scientific academy in the world.

According the academy, candidates are chosen on the basis of “their eminent original scientific studies and of their acknowledged moral personality” and are appointed for life. There are currently 80 academy life members.

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