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Place of Birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
About Xie Jialin
- Xie Jialin (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; 8 August 1920 – 20 February 2016) was a Chinese physicist.
- Born in Harbin, he studied physics at Yenching University.
- Upon graduation in 1943, Xie enrolled at Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D in 1951.
- While working for the University of Chicago Medical Center in 1955, he developed a particle accelerator used to treat cancerous tumors.
- Later that year, Xie returned to China and helped build the country's first particle accelerator.
- For his contribution to the development of the 30MeV electron Linear particle accelerator, Xie was awarded the Scientific and Technological Achievement Prize at the 1978 National Science and Technology Conference.
- Xie went on to become the project director during design, development and construction of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC), which was most notably used in precision measurement of the t lepton.
- He received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for his work in 2011.
- Xie died on 20 February 2016 at the age of 96 in Beijing.The inner main-belt asteroid 32928 Xiejialin, discovered by SCAP at the Xinglong Station in 1995, is named in his honor.
- Naming citation was published on 5 January 2015 (M.P.C.
- 91791).
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