Lin Junde | |
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林俊德 | |
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| Born | (1938-03-13)March 13, 1938 |
| Died | May 31, 2012(2012-05-31) (aged 74) |
| Resting place | Malan Nuclear Test Base[1] |
| Alma mater | Zhejiang University |
| Spouse | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mechanics of explosion |
| Institutions | Xinjiang Malan Nuclear Test Base |
Lin Junde (Chinese:林俊德;pinyin:Lín Jùndé;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Lîm Chùn-tek; 13 March 1938 – 31 May 2012) was a Chinese explosion mechanics scientist and researcher at Xinjiang Malan Nuclear Test Base. He had spent 52 years working in the Gobi Desert innorthwest China, participating in the nuclear tests there.[2]
He held the rank ofmajor general (shao jiang) in thePeople's Liberation Army (PLA). He was a member of theChinese Academy of Engineering.
Lin was born in Jiefu Township ofYongchun County,Quanzhou, China on March 13, 1938. After graduating fromZhejiang University in 1960, he was assigned to study atPLA Military Institute of Engineering inHarbin,northeast China'sHeilongjiang province. In May 1963 he was transferred to the PLA General Equipment Department, where he headed the development of pressure recorder for measuring nuclear explosion shock wave. From the explosion of China's first atomic bomb in 1964 to the last underground nuclear test in 1996, he participated in all 45 nuclear tests in China.
In 1993 he was promoted to the rank ofmajor general (shao jiang).
In 2001 he was accepted as an academician of theChinese Academy of Engineering.
On May 31, 2012, he died ofcholangiocarcinoma at the Tangdu Hospital,Xi'an,Shaanxi.[3] Before he died, he said: "I've only done one thing in my life, nuclear test. I'm very satisfied."[4]
In February 2013, he was honored as one of the "Ten People Who Moved China".
In 1967 Lin married Huang Jianqin (Chinese:黄建琴), who was his colleague at Xinjiang Malan Nuclear Test Base.[5]