This guy used to be an Australian citizen and was enticed back to China by 6 million in seed money he then started a solar company and is now worth 2.2 billion shame Australia didn't cough up the 6 million. This link is to a Forbes magazine article.
Forbes.com
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Shi grew up in Jiangsu Province, on an island in the Yangtze River, and received a master’s degree in laser physics before leaving home for Australia in 1988. There he studied under Martin Green, whose laboratory at the University of New South Wales set a string of efficiency records for solar cells, raising the amount of sunlight energy that can be converted into electricity from 18% in 1983 to 24% in 2004. For the moment, that attainment is a phenomenon of the lab only; commercial cells typically deliver 16% to 17%.
In 1995, three years after finishing his Ph.D., Shi went to Pacific Solar, a joint venture between the university and an Australian utility, Pacific Power, that specialized in a new variety of lower-cost photovoltaics called thin-film solar cells. Shi became an Australian citizen but was lured back to his homeland in 2001 by $6 million in seed capital offered by the city of Wuxi, 80 miles northeast of Shanghai.
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