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Zhou Pei-Yuan (1902-1993), theoretical physicist, educator and social activist. Members of the Communist Party of China. Chinese Academy of Sciences, the founder of modern mechanics in China and Theoretical Physics, one of the founders. In August 28, Sunrise, 1902 Born in Yixing County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province), a scholarly home. Father Zhou Wenbo Qing Dynasty scholar. 1924, Tsinghua University school of higher studies graduate, he earned good grades, Tsinghua school delivery to the United States to continue to complete a university program, into the second year of the U.S. Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago to learn. Bachelor's and master's degrees were awarded in the spring of 1926, the summer. 1927, (1 $ dj��.c��m) into the United States California Institute of Technology to continue graduate. He start division Beide Man, after change from ET Bell relativistic research, the following year Ph.D. highest honor. In autumn of
1928, he went to the University of Leipzig, Germany, under the leadership of Professor WK Heisenberg engaged in the study of quantum mechanics.
1929, went to the Ecole Polytechnique in Zurich, Switzerland, in quantum mechanics study led by Professor S. Pauli. Return home the same year, was hired as the National Tsing Hua University Professor of Physics, at the age of 27 years old. In 1936 to 1937, the trip to the United States, engaged in the study of Theoretical Physics Academic Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. During which he participated in the personal leadership of Professor Einstein general relativity seminars, and engaged in the study of the relativistic theory of gravity and cosmology. [Lssdjt.cn
from 1943 to 1946, again on vacation to the United States. At the California Institute of Technology, he first engaged in turbulence theory, then participated in the wartime scientific research, the U.S. National Defense Commission and Development Bureau Navy military Experiment Station in torpedo empty war in water science research. left in July
1946 to go to Europe to participate Newton 300th anniversary commemoration of the birth and the International Council of Scientific Unions; participated in the Sixth International Applied Mechanics Conference, held in France, by this time the General Assembly, as well as new post- the establishment of the International Centre for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Federation elected board of directors. In in April 1947 with his wife, carrying three daughters, the family returned to Peking, to continue as a professor at Tsinghua University.
the founding of the People's Republic of China, a former Tsinghua University Dean, deputy director of the School Board, Dean of Peking University, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, Honorary Chairman of the World Association for Science and Technology Vice Chairman, President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Science and Technology, the vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, honorary chairman, chairman of the Chinese Physical Society, honorary chairman of the Honorary President of the Western Returned Scholars Association, vice president of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, the Chinese people to fight Peace and Disarmament Association, the Jiu San Society President, first, second, third, fourth deputies, Fifth Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the third, fourth CPPCC Standing Committee, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh CPPCC Vice Chairman. the
1980 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Princeton University in the United States. In 1980 and 1985, California Institute of Technology alumni "outstanding contribution" award twice. ,
1993 11 24, his usual morning exercise, but also to his wife room? speak, feeling bad, and want to lie down, and it since it.