Wang Dazhong
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Wang Dazhong | |
|---|---|
王大中 | |
| President of Tsinghua University | |
| In office January 1994 – April 2003 | |
| Party Secretary | Fang Huijian He Meiying |
| Preceded by | Gu Binglin |
| Succeeded by | Zhang Xiaowen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 March 1935 |
| Party | Chinese Communist Party |
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University RWTH Aachen University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear reactor |
| Institutions | Tsinghua University |
Wang Dazhong (Chinese: 王大中; pinyin: Wáng Dàzhōng; born 2 March 1935) is a Chinese nuclear reactor engineer who was president of Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[1]
Wang was born in Changli County, Hebei, on 2 March 1935. during the Republic of China. After graduating from Tianjin Nankai High School in 1953, he enrolled in Tsinghua University, where he majored in nuclear reactor.[2] After university, he stayed at the university and worked in the Nuclear Energy Institute.[2] In 1980, he pursued advanced studies in Federal Germany, earning a doctor's degree from RWTH Aachen University in 1982.[2]
He returned to China in October 1982 and continued to work at Tsinghua University as deputy director of the Nuclear Energy Institute.[2] He moved up the ranks to become its president in 1994, a position at vice-ministerial level.[3]