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Xide Xie (Hsi-teh Hsieh ) 1921 - 2000

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"Like many scientists and intellectuals in China, she suffered banishment during the period of political turmoil known as the "Cultural Revolution" (1966-1976). In 1977, she returned to her work in physics by founding the Modern Physics Institute at Fudan University. Through this Institute, she obtained funding for the establishment of modern research laboratories in surface physics. She helped revive the physics culture in China by aiding hundreds of young physicists to find opportunities to train abroad."

Professor Kerson Huang

"Resonant Cavity Study of Semiconductors," Journal of Applied Physics 23: 303 (1954), with J.M. Goldey and S.C. Brown.

"Electronic Properties of Metals Chemisorbed on Semiconductor Surface and Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces," Progress in Surface Science 28: 71 (1988).

"Overview of Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces," The Structure of Surfaces. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 24. Berlin: Springer, 1991, p. 576.

"Recent Developments in Some Metal/Semiconductor and Superlattice Interfaces," Materials Chemistry and Physics 38: 1 (1994).

"Vibrational Properties of Si/Ge Superlattices," Progress in Surface Sciences 54:69-113 (1997), with Zhang Kaiming and Zi Jian.

"Ab initio calculation of the structure of the random alloys SnxGe1-x" Phys. Rev. B 56: 12084 (1997), with Jianhua Shen, Jian Zi, and Ping Jiang.

Books

Semiconductor Physics. Science Publisher, 1958, with K. Huang.

Group Theory and Its Applications. China: Science Publisher, 1986.

Honors:

Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary D.Sc. from the following colleges and universities:
Appalachian State; Beloit (USA);
CCNY of CUNY, NY;
Kansie (Japan);
Leeds (UK);
McMaster (Canada);
Mount Holyoke (USA); Smith (USA);
Suffolk (USA);
SUNY, Albany
Honorary Dr.Eng., Toyo University

1951-52 Research Staff, MIT
1952-56 Lecturer in Physics, Fudan University
1956-62, Associate Professor of Physics, Fudan University
1958-66 Adjunct Director, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1962-present Professor of Physics, Fudan University
1978-83 Director, Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University
1978-83 Vice-president, Fudan University
1983-88 President, Fudan University,
1985-present Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University.
1988-present Advisor to Fudan University

B.S. Amoy [now Xiamen] University 1946
M.A. Smith College 1949
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1951

Sources and References consulted:

Professor Hsieh , Shen Rey Fen, Frieda Stahl, Kerson Huang , [1D N20], [nwps1997bfs].

Recommended reading: article by Shang-Fen Ren and Yimin Wang Zimmerer in "Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary", Shearer and Shearer, ed.. [nwps1997bfs].

When the Japanese occupied Peking in July 1937, Hsieh's family fled south first to Wuhan, then Changsha, and finally ended up in Guiyang, Guizhou Province in the fall of 1938. During their flight, Hsieh contracted tuberculosis in her hip joint. She had to be put in a cast and wa hospitalized for three years. She spent another year at home recuperating. While bedridden, Hsieh read widely and taught herself English, calculus and physics.

Hsieh was removed from her teaching post during the Cultural Revolution and was locked inside the Low Temperature Laboratory for nine months. Her husband was also under house arrest in his own Institute, and their ten year-old son had to take care of himself. After her release from house arrest, Hsieh was forced to clean the lavatory of the physics building and sweep the corridors. Hsieh was also made to work in the university's Semiconductor Factory, lapping and polishing silicon wafers. She was finally allowed to do some teaching in 1972.

In 1977, Hsieh founded the Modern Physics Research Institute. She obtained support from the Ministry of Education and the State Commission of Science and Technology to purchase some modern facilities for Surfaces Studies. Eight laboratories were affiliated with the Institute and are now the major components of the T.D. Lee Laboratory at Fudan University.

Professional service:

Vice-president, Chinese Physical Society, 1978-90
Advisory Editorial Board, Surface Science, 1979-94
President, Shanghai Association of Science and Technology, 1984-88
Organizing Committee for the International Conference of the Structure of Surfaces (ICSOS) I (1984) and II (1987)
Chair, Sino-Japan Bilateral Workshop on "Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter Theory," Shanghai, 1986
Program Committee of the 18th International Conference of Semiconductor Physics, Stockholm, 1986
Chair, Asia Pacific Symposium on Surface Physics, Shanghai, 1987
Semiconductor Commission, IUPAP, 1987-93
Advisory Committee for the 19th International Conference of Semiconductor Physics, Poland, 1988
International Advisory Panel, East-West Center, Hawaii, 1990
Program Committee for the 20th International Conference of Semiconductor Physics, Greece, 1990
Chair, 21st International Conference of Semiconductor Physics, Beijing, 1993
Chair, Local Committee for the 4th International Conference of the Structure of Surface, Shanghai, 1993

Government service:

Member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, 1982-1992
Chair, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Shanghai
Elected to the Standing Committee of the Chinese People' Political Consultative Conference, 1993

Field Editors: Frieda Stahl/Shang-Fen Ren/Kerson Huang

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