民国政府中央研究院第一届院士情况分析

An Analysis of the First Group of Academicians of the Central Research Institute of the Republic of China

1948年,由民国政府中央研究院选举出来的第一届院士,是当时中国科学界和学术领域里的精英,代表当时中国自然科学和社会科学的最高水平。其特点是:年纪轻、学历高、出生地集中、就业机构集中、毕业学校集中、出国留学生多、学术成就大。其中绝大多数后来成为共和国的科学院院士,为新中国的科学发展作出了不可磨灭的贡献。

In 1948 the first group of academicians were elected by the central research institute of the Republic of China. As the cream of the then scientific and academic circles of China, the academicians represent the peak in Chinese natural and social sciences. They were of young age, high record of formal schooling,and they were born in the same few places,worked in the same few institutes and graduated from the same few universities.Most of them had studied abroad and had made great academic contributions. The majority of them have become the scientific academicians of the People's Republic of China and have made unobliterable contribution to the scientific development of the New China.