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Jin Yilian (; born September 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist and a pioneer of
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in the country.


Biography

Jin was born in
Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
, with his ancestral home in
Changzhou Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling, and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Zhen ...
,
Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...
. He graduated from the department of electrical engineering of
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 ...
in 1951. From 1956 to 1958, he studied electronic computer science at the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computation Technology of Soviet Union Academy of Sciences. Jin was elected an academician 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 ...
in 1994.


Honors and awards

In 2002, Jin was the recipient of the prestigious
State Preeminent Science and Technology Award The Highest Science and Technology Award () also known as the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, State Supreme Science and Technology Award, or China's Nobel Prize is the highest scientific award issued by the President of the PRC to ...
, the highest scientific prize awarded in China. Asteroid 100434 Jinyilian, discovered by the
Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program The Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program (SCAP) was an astronomical survey to search for near-Earth objects. It was conducted during the 1990s, at the Xinglong Station (NAOC), Xinglong Station in Xinglong County, Chengde, Hebei province, China ...
in 1996, was named in his honor. The official was published by the
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on 19 February 2006 ().


References


External links


Jin Yilian – Awardee of Technological Science Prize
Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (HLHL, ) is a Hong Kong–based non-government organisation which annually bestows prizes upon Chinese scientists. It was established on 30 March 1994, with funds donated from the charitable foundations of Ho Sin ...
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jin, Yilian 1929 births Living people Chinese computer scientists Chinese electrical engineers Engineers from Tianjin Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Scientists from Tianjin Yaohua High School alumni Tsinghua University alumni Highest Science and Technology Award winners