Xu Liangying (traditional Chinese: 許良英, simplified Chinese: 许良英), b 1920, is a Chinese physicist, translator and a famous historian and philosopher of natural science in China.
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Xu was born in Linhai of Taizhou, Zhejiang Province in 1920. Xu graduated from the Department of Physics of Zhejiang University in 1942. Xu was a student of Shu Xingbei (aka Hsin Pei Soh, 束星北) and Wang Ganchang (王淦昌).
Xu was an editor of Chinese Science Bulletin (科学通报), a quite popular science magazine in China. Xu was treated unfairly during Mao's Anti-Rightist Movement which started in 1957, and he was sent back to his hometown to "Laogai". After Deng's political reform, Xu reobtained his normal citizenship, and went back to work in Beijing.
Xu was a longtime researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for the History of Natural Science (中国科学院自然科学史研究所).
Xu's main interests are in the history of science, the philosophy of science (especially of physics), and the relations between science and human society. Xu's The Collected Works of Albert Einstein (《爱因斯坦文集》) currently is the most comprehensive Chinese translational version of Albert Einstein's work.[1]
Xu received the second Andrei Sakharov Prize, from the American Physical Society (APS) in 2008.[2]