| Li Zhijian | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 李志堅 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 李志坚 | ||||||
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Li Zhijian (Chinese:李志坚; 1928–2011) was a Chinese physicist. He was a pioneer of Chinesemicroelectronics. He was former Chief Director of the Institute of Microelectronics,Tsinghua University; and the ex-Chairman of the Academic Committee, School of Information Science and Technology,Tsinghua University.[1]

Li was born on 1 May 1928, inNingbo,Zhejiang Province. In 1951, he graduated from the Department of Physics,Zhejiang University in Hangzhou with a bachelor's degree. He went to study mathematics and physics in theUSSR and was awarded a Science Doctorand by the USSR National University of Leningrad (now known asSt. Petersburg State University, Russia).[2]
Li later became a professor ofTsinghua University and held the chief-director position of the institute of Microelectronics for a long period. He was the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Information Science and Technology School,Tsinghua University.He was also Vice-president of the Institute of Electronics,Chinese Academy of Sciences; and theVice-chairman of the Chinese semiconductor and Integrated Circuits Technology Association.
Li was active at many international academic meetings, serving many times as the meeting-president, member of meeting commission in many international conferences including the International Conference on Solid State Device and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT; 93, 95), Solid State Material and Device Meeting (SSDM; 95, 96, 97, 98) andIEEE Regional Conferences.
Li died of illness inBeijing at 4:30 pm on 2 May 2011.[3]