To See a World in a Grain of Sand -- The Scientific Life of Shoucheng Zhang

Abstract

Our friend and colleague, Prof. Shoucheng Zhang, passed away in 2018, which was a great loss for the entire physics community. For all of us who knew Shoucheng, it is difficult to overcome the sadness and shock of his early departure. However, we are very fortunate that Shoucheng has left us such a rich legacy and so many memories in his 55 years of life as a valuable friend, a world-leading physicist, a remarkable advisor, and a great thinker. On May 2-4, 2019, a memorial workshop for Shoucheng was organized at Stanford University, where we displayed a small exhibition of 12 posters, as a brief overview of Shoucheng's wonderful scientific life. This article is prepared based on those posters.

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