Zheng Zhemin | |||||||||
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郑哲敏 | |||||||||
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| Born | (1924-10-02)2 October 1924 | ||||||||
| Died | 25 August 2021(2021-08-25) (aged 96) Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Other names | Cheng Che-Min | ||||||||
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| Awards | Academician of theChinese Academy of Sciences[1] Highest Science and Technology Award | ||||||||
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| Fields | Explosives engineering Physics | ||||||||
| Thesis | Studies on Thermal Stresses in Elastic Solids (1952) | ||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Tsien, Hsue Shen | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 郑哲敏 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄭哲敏 | ||||||||
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Zheng Zhemin (2 October 1924 – 25 August 2021), also romanized asCheng Che-Min, was a Chinese explosives engineer andphysicist specializing inexplosivemechanics.
Zheng is a native of Yin County (nowYinzhou District) ofNingbo,Zhejiang Province, and was born inJinan ofShandong Province. He obtained a BS fromTsinghua University in 1947, and a MS and a PhD inmechanical engineering from theCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1952. His doctoral advisor wasQian Xuesen.[2]
In 1955, Zheng returned to China and later served as Director of the Institute of Mechanics of theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President of the Chinese Mechanical Society, and Editor-in-Chief of theChinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (中国力学学报).
He joined theChinese Communist Party in 1983.[3]
He died from an illness inBeijing, on 25 August 2021, aged 96.[4][5]
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