Richard W. Tsien

Who is this?

Richard Winyu Tsien (born 3 March 1945), is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and neurobiologist. He is the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, former Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and former Director of the Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center, and also an emeritus faculty member of Stanford University School of Medicine.

Career

1. 1945
   Born
2. 1966
   Won Rhodes Scholarship
3. 2014
   Won Ralph W. Gerard Prize
4. 2014
   Won Annual Review Prize Lecture
5. Member of National Academy of Sciences
6. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
7. Member of Academia Sinica
8. Won Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Dafang County
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: biologist, engineer, neuroscientist