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Wei Zhang (engineer)

Wei Zhang is a Professor in Energy Technology at the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute, researching metal halide perovskite solar cells, LEDs, and nanomaterials for energy.

Wei Zhang (materials scientist)

Wei Zhang (张伟) is a polymer and materials chemist known for dynamic covalent chemistry and recyclable thermosets; he was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Sep 19, 2026

Wei Zhe

Wei Zhe (卫哲), also known as David Wei, is a Chinese venture investor, CEO of Alibaba.com from 2007 to 2011 and founding partner of Jia Yu Capital, an investor in Pop Mart and Anker.

Wei Zheng (medical researcher)

Wei Zheng is a physician-scientist in cancer epidemiology and genetics who directs the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and leads large-scale genetic studies of breast and colorectal cancer risk.

Wei Zheng (physicist)

Wei Zheng is an observational astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University known for leading the 2012 Nature report of a magnified young galaxy seen about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Wei Zhongxian

Wei Zhongxian (魏忠贤) was a Ming dynasty eunuch who dominated the government of the Tianqi emperor from 1624 to 1627, purging the Donglin faction before hanging himself in 1627.

Wei Zhuang

Wei Zhuang (韦庄) was a Tang poet and chief minister who helped found the Former Shu state and wrote the long poem Qin Fu Yin.

Wei Zi's Enfeoffment at Song

Wei Zi's Enfeoffment at Song (微子启封于宋) was the Zhou settlement of Wei Ziqi, eldest son of Shang king Di Yi, as ruler of the state of Song.

Sep 23, 2026

Wei Zifu

Wei Zifu (卫子夫) was an empress of the Han dynasty who rose from a singer in Princess Pingyang's household to become Emperor Wu's empress and mother of Crown Prince Ju.

Wei-Jun Cai

Wei-Jun Cai (蔡卫君) is a Chinese-American oceanographer, University of Delaware professor since 2013 and Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair, known for coastal and Arctic ocean acidification work.

Wei-Jun Qian

Wei-Jun Qian is a bioanalytical chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, known for co-developing nanoPOTS and winning a Presidential Early Career Award.

Oct 10, 2026

Wei-Liang Chow

Wei-Liang Chow (周炜良, 1911–1995) was a Chinese-born algebraic geometer who spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University and gave his name to the Chow ring and Chow's theorem.

Wei‐Jen Tang

Wei-Jen Tang is a molecular biologist and structural biochemist at the University of Chicago known for determining the structure of the anthrax toxin enzyme edema factor.

Wei's destruction by the Di and Duke Wen's restoration

Wei's destruction by the Di and Duke Wen's restoration was the 660 BC destruction of the state of Wei by the Di people and its re-founding at Chuqiu.

Weibel instability

The Weibel instability is a plasma instability in which anisotropic particle distributions generate magnetic fields from an unmagnetized plasma, discovered by Erich Weibel in 1959.

Oct 15, 2026

Weibo

Weibo (微博) is a Chinese microblogging platform launched by Sina in 2009, often described as China's counterpart to Twitter and a main venue for public discussion there.

Weibo Cai is a Chinese-American scientist and Vilas Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison working in molecular imaging, nanobiotechnology, and radio-nanomedicine, known for tumor-targeting carbon nanotubes and theranostics.

Sep 23, 2026

Weibo Circuit (Jiedushi of Weibo)

Weibo Circuit (魏博节度使) was a Tang dynasty military governorship seated at Weizhou, first held by the former rebel general Tian Chengsi in 763 and largely outside court control.

Weibo Gao

Weibo Gao (高伟博) is a Chinese quantum physicist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for the 2012 observation of entanglement between a quantum dot spin and a single photon.

Weibo Yabing

Weibo Yabing (魏博牙兵) was the hereditary guard corps of the Weibo circuit in late Tang China, raised by Tian Chengsi and destroyed by Luo Shaowei and Zhu Quanzhong in 906.

Sep 29, 2026

Weibull analysis

Weibull analysis is a statistical method that fits a Weibull distribution to failure-time data to estimate failure rates, lifetimes, and reliability, named after the Swedish mathematician Waloddi Weibull.

Weibull distribution

The Weibull distribution, also called the Rosin–Rammler distribution, is a continuous probability distribution with a power-law hazard, used to model failure times and wind speeds.

Sep 29, 2026

Weibull model

The Weibull model is a parametric probability model for failure times and other positive event times, used to estimate survival probabilities, failure rates, and life quantiles in reliability engineering.

Oct 10, 2026

Weichai Power

Weichai Power (潍柴动力股份有限公司) is a Chinese powertrain manufacturer founded in 2002 from the Weifang Diesel Engine Factory, making diesel and natural-gas engines, heavy trucks, agricultural equipment, and forklifts.

Weichang Zhou

Weichang Zhou is a biochemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, known for cell culture processes and continuous manufacturing of biologic medicines.

Weicheng Pharma (蔚程医药)

Weicheng Pharma (蔚程医药), also known as Vivatides Therapeutics, is a Chinese biotechnology company founded in 2025 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, that develops small nucleic acid drugs targeting tissues outside the liver.

Oct 15, 2026

Weichselian glaciation

The Weichselian glaciation, known in Poland as the Vistulian or Wisła Glaciation, was the last glacial period of northern Europe, spanning roughly the past 115,000 years, when ice sheets grew over Fennoscandia and the North Sea.