Biography:Shih-Chun Wang
Shih-Chun Wang (1910-1993) was a Chinese-American neuroscientist and a pharmacology professor.[1][2][3] He was born in China, earned a medical degree from Beijing Union Medical College, and earned his PhD from Northwestern University in 1940.[1] He had come to the United States in 1937 with a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study at Northwestern.[1] In 1951 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4]
From 1941 until 1956 he was a member of Columbia University's Department of Physiology, and after that he joined its Department of Pharmacology.[1] He was the first person to be its Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology, and he retired in 1978.[1]
His research into motion sickness led to the creation of drugs to prevent problems such as vomiting.[5] He studied nausea in astronauts for NASA, which helped lead to the creation of the vomit comet.[5]
The Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award of the American Physiological Society is since 1999 "given annually to an individual demonstrating outstanding promise based on their research program in the physiological sciences."[6][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Saxon, Wolfgang. "Shih-Chun Wang, Leading Specialist On Brain, Dies at 83". https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/08/obituaries/shih-chun-wang-leading-specialist-on-brain-dies-at-83.html.
- ↑ "Community works to fill Wikipedia's Asian-American, Pacific Islander gaps". https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/community-works-fill-wikipedia-s-asian-american-pacific-islander-gaps-n755676.
- ↑ "Hsieh hou yü ssu chʻien tʻiao /". Worldcat.org. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81036607/. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
- ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Shih-Chun Wang". Gf.org. 2014-06-20. https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/shih-chun-wang/. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "New chancellor took her own path". http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2011-10-16/new-chancellor-took-her-own-path.html.
- ↑ "American Physiological Society > Early Career Professional Awards". http://www.the-aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS-Awards/Early-Career-Professional#Wang.
- ↑ "American Physiological Society > Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award". http://www.the-aps.org/mm/awards/Other-APS-Awards/Recipients/Wang-YIA.html.
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