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Biography

Wang Shiji, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. He is a physicist who graduated from the Technical Physics Department of Peking University in 1956.

Wang has focused his academic career on studying nuclear physics and conducting laser plasma physical experiments. He has served as a researcher of the Shanghai Plasma Research Institute and the director of the Shanghai High Power Laser Physics National Lab. In the 1960s, he researched neutron flash detectors in liquid contained cadmium at the United Nucleus Research Institute in the former Soviet Union and discovered relatively high precision measurements of resonate neutron fission parameters. The same decade, he adopted optimal designed gas detectors in nuclear testing and determined the thermal nuclear reaction time.

His laser experiments led to the creation of more than ten types of diagnosis instruments as well as to the development of X-ray laser research. By the end of the 1980s, he was recognized as a leader in this field. Wang later obtained the approximate wavelength X-ray lasers on middle and small laser drives. He then went to Japan with a team and applied even ray focus and double-target connection technology to discover high plus saturation, eke-nickel and silver lasers, and other laser related research.

In 1999, Wang was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.