Hu Jimin

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Hu Jimin
Born26 January 1919
Jiangsu, China
Died1998
Beijing, China
OccupationNuclear Physicist
Children4

Hu Jimin (

plasma physicist
and educator.

Life and career

Hu was born on 26 January 1919 in

Hsin Pei Soh. Hu graduated in 1942, and became a teaching assistant
in the department.

In 1945, aided by the

PhD from the University College London (UCL) in 1948, and his advisor was Harrie Massey
. Hu was a research assistant at UCL.

In 1949, Hu returned China and at beginning taught at Zhejiang University Department of Physics. In the spring of 1955, Hu was transferred to Beijing, to establish a research institute of atomic physics. In 1958, the institute was renamed as the Department of Technical Physics of Peking University, and Hu was its founding Chair, till 1986.

Hu was elected Academician of the

Director-general of the Chinese Society of Nuclear Physics (中国核物理学会), the former academic director of the National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator in Lanzhou (NLHIAL, 兰州重离子加速器国家实验室), and the former academic director of the Beijing National Tandem Accelerator Laboratory (北京串列加速器核物理国家实验室).[2]

References

  • The Biography of Nuclear Physicist Hu Jimin; Peking University Press; ; 1997.
  • Hu Jimin; Jincheng Press; ; 2007.

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