Li Shu-hua

Li Shu-hua (, courtesy name: Runzhang 潤章, 23 September 1890 – 5 July 1979) was a Chinese biophysicist and politician. He was an educator, and administrator at Beijing University and a Chinese diplomat. He was the brother of Li Shu-tien.

He went to France where he earned a doctorate in physics. In 1922 he returned to China where he worked at the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China and at the Academia Sinica.

From 1935 to 1949 he was chairman of the Chinese delegation of the Commission Mixte des Oeuvres Franco-Chinoises. In 1945 he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and participated in the conference for the founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In 1946, 1947, and 1949 he attended the general conferences of the UNESCO as a Chinese delegate; in 1952 he served as chairman of the Chinese delegation to the Seventh General Conference of UNESCO.

In 1949 he returned to France where he did research work at the Universite de Paris. In the academic year of 1951–52 he taught Chinese language and culture at the University of Hamburg in Germany.

He relocated to New York City in 1953 and died of a heart attack there in [https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/08/archives/dr-shu-hua-li-89-an-educator-and-physicist-on-columbia-staff.html 1979]. Provided by Wikipedia