Tao Xiang is Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and specializes in condensed matter theory. He is a CAS academician and a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, and has received the He-Leung-He-Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, among other awards.
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