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Beijing

Published on
December 24, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has admitted 55 new members. Five Hong Kong scholars were included but the new members included only two women, one the physicist Zhang Zongyie. The academy's membership now totals 633 with an average age of 62.

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