Kuo-fan Chin

Background

Chin, Kuo-fan was born on January 8, 1929 in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Son of Tao King and Xiaochü Zhang.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Peking U., 1950.

Career

Assistant, Peking U., Beijing, 1950-1952; assistant, lecturer, associate, professor department precision instruments, Tsinghua U., Beijing, since 1952; vice president, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, since 1991. Visiting professor Erlangen-Nürnberg U., 1978-1979, Heriot-Watt U., Eidingburgh, Scotland, 1987, Portland (Oregon) State University, 1991.

Achievements

• Kuo-fan Chinese has been listed as a noteworthy Mechanical engineering educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Optical Society of America, International Society for Optical Engineering. Member Chinese Optical Society (president since 1985), Society Instrumentation (board directors), National Natural Science Foundation China (vice president since 1991), Chinese Academy Engineering.

Connections

Married Shuzhen Duan, June 1, 1952. Children: Jiyou Jin, Jiqing Jin, Jixiang Jin.

Father:

Tao King

Mother:

Xiaochü Zhang

Spouse:

Shuzhen Duan

child:

Jiqing Jin Chin

child:

Jiyou Jin Chin

child:

Jixiang Jin Chin