Shoucheng Zhang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shoucheng Zhang

Chinese American physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1963

Place of Birth: Shanghai, China

Date of Death: 01-Dec-2018

Profession: professor, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, China

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Shoucheng Zhang (Chinese: ???; February 15, 1963 – December 1, 2018) was a Chinese-American physicist who was the JG Jackson and CJ Wood professor of physics at Stanford University.
He was a condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high-temperature superconductivity.
According to the National Academy of Science:He discovered a new state of matter called topological insulator in which electrons can conduct along the edge without dissipation, enabling a new generation of electronic devices with much lower power consumption.
For this ground breaking work he received numerous international awards, including the Buckley Prize, the Dirac Medal and Prize, the Europhysics Prize, the Physics Frontiers Prize and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. He founded the venture capital firm Danhua Capital.