Scholar mentored by late Nobel Prize winner hails ability in China to translate knowledge into ‘practical application and industrialisation’.

Fang Lei, a long-time professor with Texas A&M University’s chemistry department, has returned to China to join the cutting-edge Yongjiang Laboratory, a state-backed research centre that has drawn a cumulative investment of more than 26 billion yuan (US$3.65 billion) in less than four years. Fang built a distinguished career in the United States over nearly two decades, rising to be deputy head of the chemistry department at Texas A&M. He resigned from the university earlier this year to assume…

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Trump cutting all this funding is sending scientists scrambling back to their home countries. Immigrant scientists were the backbone of US science.