Academia Sinica
The Academia Sinica ( from the Latin for Chinese university;中央研究院Chinese, Pinyin Zhongyang Yánjiùyuàn ) today is the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of China on Taiwan. It is located primarily in the city of Nangang District of Taipei. It exisitieren several outsourced institutions: the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Research and the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics are located on the grounds of the National Taiwan University in Taipei, the Center for Applied Research has a branch at the National Chiao Tung University. The establishment of a southern campuses in Tainan is planned.
It was founded in 1928 by Li Shizeng on the Chinese mainland. His companion Cai Yuanpei, who had been following the revolution of 1911 the first Minister of Education of the Chinese Republic, was its president. After in 1949 the Communists had won control of the mainland, the Republican Academia Sinica of the government was re- established in Taiwan. In the following years of political instability, their development was slow.
Just one month after the founding of the People's Republic of China has established on the basis of the Academia Sinica, a new Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), whose government in Beijing and abandoned the previous name.
Today, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan is conducted in the rankings of the 4000 world's leading research institutions of the renowned Webometrics Ranking of World Research Centers at number 15.
Research institutions
There currently are 24 combines research institutes and seven research centers in the Academia Sinica.
Mathematical and Physical Research Section
- Department of Mathematics
- Institute of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Institute of Geosciences
- Institute of Information Technology
- Department of Statistics
- Institute for Atomic and Molecular Research
- Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Center for Applied Research
- Center for Umwelforschung
- Centre for Innovation in Information Technology
Section Biosciences
- Institute of Plant and Microbiology
- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology
- Institute of Biochemistry
- Institute of Molecular Biology
- Institute for Biomedical Research
- Centre for Agriculture and Biotechnology
- Center for Genome Research
- Center for Biodiversity
Section Humanistic and Social Research
- Institute of History and Philology ( Chinese)
- Department of Anthropology ( Chinese)
- Institute of Modern History
- Institute for Economic
- Institute of European and American research
- Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
- Institute for the History Taiwan
- Department of Sociology
- Institute of Linguistics
- Institute of Political Science
- Institute of Law
- Center for Humanistic and Social Research