Xu Liangying

Xu Liangying (born May 3, 1920, died January 28, 2013) was a Chinese physicist, translator, and a historian and philosopher of natural science. He was born in Linhai, Zhejiang, and graduated from the Department of Physics at Zhejiang University in 1942. Xu was a student of Shu Xingbei and Wang Ganchang. He worked as an editor for *Chinese Science Bulletin*. During Mao Zedong's Anti-Rightist Campaign, he was persecuted and sent to his hometown for reform through labour. After the Cultural Revolution, he was politically rehabilitated and returned to work in Beijing. Xu was a longtime researcher at the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His primary academic interests were the history of science, the philosophy of science (particularly physics), and the relationship between science and human society. His notable contribution includes *The Collected Works of Albert Einstein*, which is considered the most comprehensive Chinese translation of Einstein's writings. In recognition of his work and activism, Xu was awarded the second Andrei Sakharov Prize by the American Physical Society in 2008.