Richard W. Tsien

Richard Tsien
Born
Richard Winyu Tsien
錢永佑

(1945-03-03) 3 March 1945
Dading, Guizhou, China
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
SpouseJulia Shiang
Children3
FatherHsue-Chu Tsien
RelativesRoger Y. Tsien (brother)
Scientific career
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (1997)
Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture (2014)
FieldsElectrical engineering
Neurobiology
InstitutionsNew York University Medical Center
Stanford University
ThesisThe kinetics of conductance changes in heart cells (1970)
Doctoral advisorJean Banister
Websitemed.nyu.edu/faculty/richard-tsien
Websitehttps://med.nyu.edu/research/tsien-lab/
Richard W. Tsien
Traditional Chinese錢永佑
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQián Yǒngyòu

Richard Winyu Tsien (born 3 March 1945), is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and neurobiologist. He is the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, former Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and former Director of the Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center, and also an emeritus faculty member of Stanford University School of Medicine.