Han Zhenxiang (; 24 May 1930 – 4 May 2024) was a Chinese

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who served as president of

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and of the

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, and an academician of the

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. He was a member of the

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Biography

Han was born in 1930 in

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, and his

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was in

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. He attended Hangzhou High School. He obtained

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from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University in

in 1951. He further studied in

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, and obtained his

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(

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: Кандидат наук) from the

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in 1961. Han returned to China in 1961 and continued to teach at Zhejiang University. He was promoted to full professor in 1978 and to doctoral supervisor in 1981. He became director of the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1979, but having held the position for only a year. From 1980 to 1982, he was a visiting professor at Renssellier Institute of Technology and the Bonneville Power Administration. He rose to become president of Zhejiang University in February 1984, and served until February 1988. That same year, he was selected as a delegate to the

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. Han was the 3rd and 4th president of the

(CSEE). He was an honorary member of the society. On 4 May 2024, Han died in Hangzhou, at the age of 93.

Work

Han was a key pioneer of the large-scaled electrical networks in China. Han mainly worked on the fault diagnosis of

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, the control and stability of electrical power systems, and the optimal design of electrical power networks. Han was also one of the first in China to combine computer

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with electrical power networks, and developed several computer softwares which were widely used in China for controlling and estimating electrical power systems.

Honours and awards

* 1997 State Natural Science Award (Third Class) for the theoretical and methodological research on modeling, analysis, and control of DC transmission and AC-DC power systems. * 1999 Member of the

(CAS)

References

External links

China Vitae : Biography of Han Zhenxiang
* Hangzhou Sci & Tech

* Hudong.com Encyclopedia
introduction of Han Zhenxiang

Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering
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