List of modern scientists from Shanghai

Shanghai is the cultural center of the Yangtze Delta Region in China. In late Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi started introducing European science to China. Some notable modern scientists from Shanghai are listed below.

Notations for memberships of academies
 * United States of America:
 * Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences = FM/M-NAS
 * Foreign Member/Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering = FM/M-NAE
 * Foreign Member/Member of the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academies = FM/M-IM
 * Member/Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences = M/F-AAAS
 * Member of the New York Academy of Sciences = M-NYAS
 * United Kingdom:
 * Fellow of the Royal Society = FRS
 * Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering = FRAE
 * Fellow of the British Academy = FBA
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh = FRSE
 * Germany:
 * Foreign Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina = FM-GASL
 * Foreign Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities = FM-BASH
 * France:
 * Foreign Member of the French Academy of Sciences = FM-FAS
 * Russia:
 * Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences = FM-RAS
 * Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering = FM-RAE
 * Republic of China/Taiwan:
 * Academician/Member of the Academia Sinica = M-AS
 * People's Republic of China:
 * Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences = FM/M-CAS
 * Foreign Member/Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering = FM/M-CAE
 * Other:
 * Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences = M-TWAS
 * Member of the International Academy of Astronautics = M-IAA

Notations for personal profiles
 * Priority: Hometown > birthplace > study/work (based on traditional Chinese convention)
 * Hometown: h.
 * Birthplace: b.
 * Have trained/studied in Shanghai: s.
 * Have worked in Shanghai: w.

Hometown Shanghai
For most Shanghainese scientists and engineers, their hometowns are in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces.


 * Xie Xuejing (h. Shanghai; b. Beijing): M-CAS/TWCS
 * Terence Tao (ancestral hometown Shanghai, born Adelaide, Australia): Fields Medal laureate 2006