Zhao Zhongxian (; born 30 January 1941) is a Chinese physicist. He is internationally known for his studies on High-temperature superconductivity (HTS). He was a member of the 8th, 10th, 11th National Committee of the

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. He was also an alternate member of the

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Biography

Zhao was born in Xinmin,

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Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially known as the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of Great Manchuria thereafter, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostens ...

, on January 30, 1941. In 1959, he was accepted to the

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and graduated in 1964. After university, he was assigned to the Institute of Physics,

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as a researcher. In December 1973, he joined the

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. That same year, he was sent abroad to study at the expense of the government. He was educated in the

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from February 1974 to September 1975. In 1979, he became deputy director of Superconductor Classification Laboratory at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1987 he was elected a fellow of the

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(TWAS), and two years later he was elected a fellow of the World Ceramic Academy. In 1988,

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conferred on him an Honorary Doctor of Science. In 1991 he became a member of the

. He was director of Division of Mathematics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1994 to 2000.

Papers

* * * ''Anisotropic Superconducting Critical Currents for in Situ Comosites Cu-Nb''; Z. X. Zhao, C. G. Cui, S. Q. Gou, D. K. Finnemore and J. D. Verhoeven; ''Chinese Physics'' 5 (1985); 776. * * *

Awards

* 1997 and 2014 Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation * 2015 Bernd T. Matthias Prize * 2016

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References

External links

Zhao Zhognxian on the Official website of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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