Peking University, June 5, 2012: Professor Daniel Chee Tsui, the Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1998, delivered a lecture titled “Exploring the World of Two-Dimensional Electrons” at Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center on June 1, which marked the launch of Peking University (PKU) Global Fellowship.

Prof. Daniel Chee Tsui

Before the lecture, Zhu Shanlu, Chairman of the PKU Council, met with Professor Tsui. Zhu expressed his gratitude and appreciation to Professor Tsui for his contribution to PKU. Zhu said that drawing talents is one of the crucial strategies of PKU. PKU would strengthen its appeal, promote its services, learn from others and innovate based on its own status quo in order to implement this strategy, In addition, PKU would also endeavor to provide better conditions for teaching and research on campus.

“Professor Tsui’s participation in this program will play an exemplary role in the process of implementation”, Zhu said.

After the meeting, Professor Tsui gave an introduction to two-dimensional electrons.  Professor Du Ruirui, Dr. Lin Xi, and Dr. Zhang Chi from the International Center for Quantum Materials at PKU, shared with the participants their research on the quantum hall effect, fractional charge, electron liquid and electron solid.

PKU Global Fellowship is one of the important measures that the university takes to accelerate its development to be a world-class one. PKU will invite the world’s most prestigious scholars to give lectures, offer courses and initiate cooperative programs, so that comprehensive innovations and developments can be made possible. In the next five to ten years, PKU plans to invite at least ten globally-renowned scholars to lecture annually. The scholar to be invited will be a leading expert in his or her discipline with a profound strategic foresight, which is able to lead the discipline to catch up or keep up with the globally advanced level.

As the first scholar of the PKU Global Fellowship, Professor Daniel Chee Tsui enjoys a high prestige in the world for his accomplishments in physics. He was born in He’nan Province, China in 1939. Professor Tsui is a physicist who studies the electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semi-conductors and solid state physics. In 1998, along with Horst L. Stormer of Columbia and Robert Laughlin of Stanford, Tsui was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum hall effect. Currently, he is a research professor at Boston University.

Earlier the week, PKU held a special ceremony to confer an honorary doctorate on Professor Daniel Chee Tsui at the Tan Siu Lin Center for International Studies on May 29.

On the ceremony, Zhou Qifeng, President of PKU, briefly introduced Tsui’s life experiences and academic contributions to science. “PKU and Professor Tsui have developed good relationship. In the past few years, Professor Tsui has paid visits to PKU quite often and offered proposals to our developments, which has benefited us greatly”, he said, “I would like to extend my gratitude to Professor Tsui, and hope he would provide continuous support to PKU”.

Edited by: Zhang Jiang

Source: Office of International Relations