Background
Yao was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
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Yao was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
He graduated from the department of metallurgy of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in July 1945, and obtained a doctorate of engineering from University of Birmingham in United Kingdom in 1951.
After returning to China in September 1957, Yao served in the fifth research institute affiliated to Ministry of National Defense, headed by Qian Xuesen. He helped found the Institute of Materials and Technology (later affiliated to 7th Ministry of Mechanical Industry) and became the director Yao was persecuted in Cultural Revolution, and was beaten to death on June 8, 1968, at the age of 45.