Zhu Guangya was a renowned Chinese nuclear physicist, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Education
Zhu attended National Central University (Nanjing University) in 1941 and graduated from department of physics of National Southwestern Associated University in 1945, and obtained a doctorate degree in physics at University of Michigan in the United States (1950).
Career
He served as the vice chairman of 8th and 9th Chinese People"s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He returned to China in spring of 1950. After 1957, he was involved in nuclear reactor research.
Together with Deng Jiaxian and others, Zhu led the development of China"s atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb program
In 1994 when Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) was founded, he served as the first president Zhu died on February 26, 2011 at the age of 86.
Membership
Chinese Academy of Engineering. Chinese Academy of Sciences]
Zhu was an alternate member of 9th and 10th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, and a full member of 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Central Committees of cost per click.