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Ge Xiurun (; 12 July 1934 – 4 January 2023) was a Chinese
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engineer, and an
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of the
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.


Biography

Ge was born in
Nanhui County Nanhui District (), formerly romanized as Nanhwei, was a district of Shanghai until it was merged into Pudong New Area in May 2009. It had a land area of about and a coastline. The population of Nanhui was as of August 2006. On May 6, 20 ...
(now Nanhui District),
Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
on July 12, 1934. He attended the
Nanyang Model High School Shanghai Nanyang Model High School () is a public secondary school in Xuhui, Shanghai, China. History In 1896, Nanyang Public School () was founded by an imperial edict issued by Guangxu Emperor, under the Business and Telegraphs Office of the ...
. In 1952, he was accepted to
Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...
, where he majored in the Water Conservancy Department. In 1954, he arrived in the
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to begin his education at the Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. He returned to China after graduating with a vice-doctorate degree and began working in the Central South Institute of Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...
, which was reshuffled as the Wuhan Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics later. Between 1981 and 1983, he worked at the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founde ...
, alongside Leopold Müller. From January 1980 to January 1998, he successively worked as deputy director and then director of the Research Office of Wuhan Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined the
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(CCP) in January 1985. On January 4, 2023, Ge died at the age of 88.


Honours and awards

* 1985 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Special) for the Gezhouba Second and Third Rivers Project and Its Hydropower Units * 1990 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class) for the three dimensional finite element analysis of gravity dam on Qing River considering complex foundation * 1995 Member of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences a ...
(CAE)


References

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