Zhou Peiyuan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese theoretical physicist
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Place of Birth: Yixing, Jiangsu, China
About Zhou Peiyuan
- Zhou Peiyuan (Chinese: ???; Wade–Giles: Chou P'ei-yüan; August 28, 1902 – November 24, 1993) was a Chinese theoretical physicist and politician.
- He served as president of Peking University, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).Born in Yixing, Jiangsu, China, Zhou graduated from Tsinghua University in 1924.
- Then he went to the United States and obtained a bachelor's degree from University of Chicago in Spring of 1926, and a master's degree at the end of the same year.
- In 1928, he obtained his doctorate degree from California Institute of Technology under Eric Temple Bell with thesis The Gravitational Field of a Body with Rotational Symmetry in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation.
- In 1936, he studied general relativity under Albert Einstein in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
- He did his post-doc researches in quantum mechanics at University of Leipzig in Germany and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
- He was a professor of physics at Peking University, and later served as the president of the University.
- He was elected as a founding member of CAS in 1955. Tsinghua University's Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics is named in his honor.
- In 2003, a bronze statue of Zhou was unveiled on the campus of Peking University. Zhou's most famous work is the transport equation of Reynolds stress.
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