Zhao Guofan | |||||||||
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赵国藩 | |||||||||
Born | Fenyang County, Shanxi, China | 29 December 1924||||||||
Died | 1 February 2017 | (aged 92)||||||||
Alma mater | Chiao Tung University East China People's Revolutionary University | ||||||||
Scientific career | |||||||||
Fields | Civil structure | ||||||||
Institutions | Dalian University of Technology | ||||||||
Academic advisors | Xu Zhilun | ||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 赵国藩 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 趙國藩 | ||||||||
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Zhao Guofan (29 December 1924 – 1 February 2017) was a Chinese civil structural engineer. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Zhao was born in Fengyang County, Shanxi, on 29 December 1924.[1][2] He had two younger brothers.[2] By age 13, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, his father was conscripted into military service.[2] Zhao and her mother fled to different cities to take refuge.[2] Finally, they settled in the suburb of Xi'an, Shaanxi.[2] In 1945, he was admitted to Chiao Tung University, where he majored in the Department of Civil Engineering.[1][2] After graduation, he entered the East China People's Revolutionary University (华东人民革命大学).[1][2]
After graduating in 1949, he was recruited by the Qiqihar Railway Bureau and soon after moved to the Department of Water Conservancy, Lanzhou University.[1][2] He was appointed assistant of Dalian University of Technology, in August 1950, becoming professor in 1954.[1][2] During the Korean War, he was an engineer in the 810 National Defense Construction Committee.[1] He joined the Jiusan Society in 1956. He was a visiting scholar at North Carolina State University from March 1981 to September 1981.[2]
He died of illness in Dalian, Liaoning, on 1 February 2017, aged 92.[1]