Sun Xin (physicist)

Sun was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in July 1938.^[1] He attended Yangzhou High School. In 1955, he was accepted to Fudan University, where he majored in the Department of Physics.^[1][2][3]

After graduation in 1960, Sun stayed to teach, he was promoted to teaching assistant in 1960 and to associate professor in 1978.^[1] In 1979, he pursued advanced studies at the University of California, San Diego in the United States.^[1] He returned to China in 1983 and continued to teach at Fudan University.^[1]

On 27 May 2025, Sun died in Shanghai, at the age of 86.^[1][2][3]

• 2013 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)^[1][2][3]