China Vitae

Biography

Wang Shizhen, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province. He was born in Qiaoye, Japan and graduated from the Chemical Department of Tsinghua University in 1938. Wang obtained a chemistry master's degree in 1948 and a doctorate degree in 1949 – both from University of Iowa. He is a senior academician and a nuclear medicine scientist.

Wang is highly regarded for his academic accomplishments. In 1956, he founded the first isotope application training class in China and created several scientific techniques – among them isotope mark substance synthesis, liquid flash measurement, radioactive immunity analysis, and radioactive immunity presentation. In 1998, he devised the most advanced anti-electron emitting faultage system in China.

He has served as a professor at China Union Medical University and was also the honorary superintendent at the radiology research institute at China Medical Academy of Science.

Wang was elected as an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.