Historical Organization
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Organization Timeline
Hua Luogeng is born
📅 12 November 1910Largely self-taught after leaving school, Hua became one of China's most influential twentieth-century mathematicians.
Hua advances analytic number theory
📅 12 November 1910His research addressed Waring's problem, exponential sums, prime numbers and the geometry of numbers.
War and revolution reshape Hua's mathematical career
📅 12 November 1910Japanese invasion, migration, overseas appointments and the founding of the People's Republic changed where and how he worked.
Hua brings mathematical methods to production
📅 12 November 1910He promoted optimization and operational research in factories and agriculture, connecting advanced mathematics with mass development programs.
FAST radio telescope achieves first light
📅 25 September 2016The 500-metre Chinese radio telescope in Guizhou took its first astronomical data.
A giant single-dish telescope enters testing
📅 25 September 2016FAST began its commissioning phase after construction in a karst depression.
China expands radio-astronomy capacity
📅 25 September 2016The instrument’s great collecting area promised sensitivity to faint radio sources.
Guizhou becomes a global radio-astronomy site
📅 25 September 2016First light marked a milestone for the observatory built by Chinese scientific teams.