Background
August 23, 1923, Guo was born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
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August 23, 1923, Guo was born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
1941, Guo graduated from the Chongqing Nankai Middle School. Guo graduated (Bachelor of Engineering) from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University in 1946.
Guo was a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Guo is considered as the main pioneer of electron microscopy of China. After graduation, Guo went to study in Sweden in 1947.
Guo was the Director and a senior researcher at the prestigious Beijing Electron Microscope Open Laboratory (aka Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy) and the Center for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He also received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), Sweden. The renowned K.H.Kuo Education Fund is named after him.
Electron microscopy of aperiodic materials Invited and contributed papers from a symposium at the ICEM14, Cancun, Mexico, 3 September 1998, in honour of Professor Knight of Hanover Kuo - by Lian-Mao Peng and J. L. Aragón.
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1980, Guo was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Guo also was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).