Has Yan Ning, a 39-year-old female professor, been eliminated by China Academy of Sciences?

The China Academy of Sciences announced today the list of co-opted academicians in 20 17, and 6 1 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 61foreign academicians were elected. At first, Yan Ning, a 39-year-old female professor from Tsinghua University, who received the most attention in the primary list of 157 people, lost the election.

Among the newly elected 6/kloc-0 academicians of China Academy of Sciences, there are 58 males and 3 females, the youngest is 46 years old and the oldest is 67 years old, and more than 90% of them are 60 years old or younger. Professor Yan Ning is well-known in the world for his achievements in the field of membrane protein structural biology, and he is the youngest one in this year's primary list. Earlier, it was reported that Yan Ning, who has been teaching in Tsinghua University, accepted a tenured professorship at Princeton University in May this year. The reporter of Beiqing Daily found today that her name has disappeared from the faculty list of Tsinghua University Life College and only appeared as "distinguished professor". In the history of co-opting academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering, many famous scholars have been defeated many times, including Yuan Longping and Shi.