Zhou Yaohe | |
Native Name: | 周尧和 |
Native Name Lang: | zh-hans |
Birth Date: | May 1927 |
Birth Place: | Beijing, Republic of China |
Death Place: | Shanghai, China |
Fields: | Materials science |
Workplaces: | Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University, Moscow Institute of Steel |
Zhou Yaohe (May 1927 – 30 July 2018) was a Chinese materials scientist.[1] He was elected as academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 1991.[2]
Born in May 1927, Zhou attended Tsinghua University. He went to the Soviet Union in 1953, and returned to China with a Candidate of Sciences degree from the Moscow Institute of Steel, in 1957. He specialized in solidification theory and technology for metal casting, and developed a new method of metal casting, which is used to produce aluminium alloy for aerospace engineering. He received the highest award of Chinese aviation industry in 1991.[3]
He died on 30 July 2018 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, aged 91.[3]