Zheng Zhemin | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 郑哲敏 | ||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 鄭哲敏 | ||||||||
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Hanyu Pinyin | Zhèng Zhémǐn |
Wade–Giles | Cheng4 Che2-min3 |
Zheng Zhemin (born 1924), also romanized as Cheng Chemin, is a Chinese physicist specialized in explosive mechanics.
Zheng is a native of Yin County (now Yinzhou District) of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Jinan of Shandong Province. He obtained a BS from Tsinghua University in 1947, and his MS and PhD from California Institute of Technology.
Zheng served as Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President of the Chinese Mechanical Society, and Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (中国力学学报).