Wen Shizhu | |||||||
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温诗铸 | |||||||
Born | |||||||
Died | 3 November 2023
Beijing, China | (aged 91)||||||
Alma mater | Tsinghua University | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Mechanics | ||||||
Institutions | Tsinghua University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 温 诗 铸 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 溫 詩 鑄 | ||||||
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Wen Shizhu ( Chinese: 温诗铸; 2 November 1932 – 3 November 2023) was a Chinese mechanical scientist who was a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wen was born in Fengcheng County (now Fengcheng), Jiangxi, on 2 November 1932. [1] [2] He was the seventh of eight children. [1] He attended the Chongqing Nankai Middle School. [1] In September 1951, he was accepted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University with the first place in the Hubei Provincial College Entrance Examination. [1]
After graduating in 1955, he stayed for teaching. [1] [2] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1956. [1] [2] In 1979, he became a visiting scholar at Imperial College London. [1] He returned to China in 1981 and continued to teach at the Tsinghua University. [1] He was made director of the Laboratory of Tribology and was promoted to full professor and doctoral supervisor. [1] In 1985, he was responsible for the preparation of the State Key Laboratory of Tribology of Tsinghua University and was appointed director in 1988 after completion. [1] On 1 April 2003, he recruited as a part-time professor at Henan University of Science and Technology. [1]
On 3 November 2023, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 91. [1] [2] [3]