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Simplified Chinese
  
郑哲敏

Hanyu Pinyin
  
Zheng Zhemin

Name
  
Cheng Chemin

Traditional Chinese
  
鄭哲敏

Wade–Giles
  
Cheng Che-min

Role
  
Physicist

Education
  
Tsinghua University, California Institute of Technology

Zheng Zhemin (born 1924), also romanized as Cheng Chemin, is a Chinese physicist specialized in explosive mechanics.

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Biography

Zheng is a native of Yin County (now Yinzhou District) of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Jinan of Shandong Province. He obtained a BS from Tsinghua University in 1947, and his MS and PhD from California Institute of Technology.

Zheng served as Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President of the Chinese Mechanical Society, and Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (中国力学学报).

Honors and awards

  • 1980, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 1993, Foreign Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering
  • 1993, Tan Kah Kee Science Award
  • 1994, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
  • 2012, State Preeminent Science and Technology Award

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