Long Yuqiu
Long Yuqiu | |||||||
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龙驭球 | |||||||
| Born | 15 January 1926 | ||||||
| Died | 22 December 2022 (aged 96) Beijing, China | ||||||
| Alma mater | Southwest Jiaotong University National Southwestern Associated University Tsinghua University | ||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||
| Fields | Civil engineering Structural mechanics | ||||||
| Institutions | Tsinghua University | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 龙驭球 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 龍馭球 | ||||||
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Long Yuqiu (Chinese: 龙驭球; 15 January 1926[1][2] – 22 December 2022) was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.[3]
Biography
[edit]Long was born in Anhua County, Hunan, on 15 January 1926.[4] In 1944, he was admitted to Tangshan Jiaotong University (now Southwest Jiaotong University), and transferred to National Southwestern Associated University a year later. In 1946, he entered Tsinghua University, where he majored in the Department of Civil Engineering.[4]
After graduating in 1948, Long stayed at the university and worked successively as assistant research fellow, assistant (1949), instructor (1952), and professor (1978).[4] During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works in Liyuzhou Farm in the suburb of Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
On 22 December 2022, Long died in Beijing, at the age of 96.[5]
Honours and awards
[edit]- 1994 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
- 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
References
[edit]- ^ "中囯科学家辞典: 现代(第1- 分册)". 1982.
- ^ "Outstanding Alumni-DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING".
- ^ Yue Huairang (岳怀让) (23 December 2022). 共和国三天内痛失六位两院院士. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Li Yuan (李苑) (23 December 2022). 土木工程与结构力学专家龙驭球院士逝世. gmw.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ 土木工程与结构力学专家 、中国工程院院士龙驭球逝世. sina (in Chinese). 23 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
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