Fan Xuji (Chinese: 范绪箕; pinyin: Fàn Xùjī; 5 January 1914 – 21 November 2015) was a Chinese engineer and academic who served as President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[1][2]
Biography
editFan was born on 5 January 1914 in Beijing. His father was among the first students sent to Russia by the Qing Dynasty and studied railway engineering. Fan completed his elementary education in Beijing, and moved with his family to Harbin in 1925. In 1929, Fan enrolled in Harbin Institute of Technology, majoring in mechanical engineering. He obtained a bachelor's degree and also mastered Russian language. In the following years, he went to study at the California Institute of Technology in the United States and obtained two master's degrees in mechanical engineering and aeronautic engineering. Fan became the vice president of SJTU in 1979, and the president in 1980. He retired in 1984 and turned 100 in January 2014.[3] He died in Shanghai on 21 November 2015.[4]
References
edit- ^ "AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES PRIZE". Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
- ^ "上海交通大学原校长、著名力学家、教育家范绪箕逝世". Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ Zhang Wenqing (2013-01-06). "SJTU Celebrates Prof. Fan Xuji's 100th Birthday". Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
- ^ http://www.groundbreaking.cn/shehui/guonei/4570.html[permanent dead link]
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