Fujia Yang

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Professor Fujia Yang (杨福家 Yáng Fújiā) (b. June 1936) is an academic of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a renowned nuclear physicist and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England.

Yang's acestral hometown is Zhenhai County (current Zhenhai District), Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Shanghai and graduated in physics from Fudan University. He was a lecturer and professor of physics at Fudan, becoming President of the university from 1993 to 1999.

He was Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 2001, was Chairman of the Shanghai Science and Technology Association (1992–1996), and he was the first president of the Association of University Presidents of China (1997–1999).

He has held visiting professorships at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark; Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.; the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA; and the University of Tokyo, Japan. He holds honorary degrees from Soka University, Tokyo, Japan; the State University of New York, USA; the University of Hong Kong; the University of Nottingham, England; and the University of Connecticut, USA.

Professor Yang Fujia was formally installed as The University of Nottingham's sixth Chancellor on 4 July 2001, the first time that a Chinese academic has become Chancellor of a UK university.

Other roles which Professor Yang has held include:

Council Member representing China on the Association of East Asia Research Universities
Member of the International Association of University Presidents
Member of the Association of University Presidents of the Pacific Rim