Famous People with Name Shih

Hu Shih            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Shih: was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat. He later changed his name to Hu Shih and his courtesy name to Shih-chih . He also had a number of other noms de plume. Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He was influential in the May Fourth Movement, one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement, was a president of Peking University, and in 1939 was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature

Chiaho Shih            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Chiaho Shih: is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Disease & Immunology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research is in the area of Molecular virology, Viral hepatitis and Hepatoma, and Cancer. He is best known for his discovery of the first human oncogene Ras in 1982 while as a graduate student in the lab of Robert Weinberg at MIT, which is partially documented in Natalie Angiers book, Natural Obsessions, about her year spent in Weinberg's lab.