Academicians are shown in a group photo when they participated in the 20th anniversary of the Academia Sinica and the first academician meeting in 1948. The first row: Zhu Kezhen (fourth from left), Hu Shih (eighth from left), Rao Yutai (tenth from left). Second row: Feng Youlan (second from left), Yang Zhongjian (third from left), Tang Peisong (fourth from left), Tang Yongtong (ninth from left). Third row: Liang Sicheng (second from left), Bing Zhi (third from left), Yan Jici (sixth from left), Ye Qisun (seventh from left). Fourth row: Wu Xianwen (fourth from left), Dai Fanglan (eighth from left), Su Buqing ( ninth from left). Fifth row: Deng Shuqun (first from left), Shiing-Shen Chern (fourth from left), Yin Hongzhang (fifth from left), and Feng Depei (seventh from left). Bei Shizhang (ninth from left), was appointed as a division member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955 and later was re-named as an academician. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Bei Shizhang is elected as a division member (academician) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Zou Chenglu is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Liang Dongcai is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He was one of the five youngest academicians of CAS at that time. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Yang Fuyu is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Wang Zhixin is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. The picture shows Wang accompanying Lu Yongxiang in his inspection of the Institute of Biophysics. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Wang Zhizhen is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Rao Zihe is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. The picture shows Rao receiving Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry Kurt Wüthrich in August 2005. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Guo Aike is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Chen Lin is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Wang Dacheng is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Chang Wenrui is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn] 

Chen Runsheng is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Yan Xiyun is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]

Xu Tao is elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. [Photo/ibp.cas.cn]