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Place of Birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
About Xu Zuyao
- Xu Zuyao (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Xú Zuyà o; Wade–Giles: Hsü Tsu-yao; 21 March 1921 – 7 March 2017) was a Chinese materials scientist.
- Focused on Martensitic transformation and Bainitic transformation, Xu was a pioneer in mainland China.Since 1983, Xu was a member and honorable member of International Advisory Committee of Martensitic Transformations and later became a member of International Committee of Bainite.Born in 1921 at rural area of Ningbo, Xu completed his earlier education at local schools.
- Then he studied at the Department of Metallurgy, National Yunnan University during 1938–1942.
- He stayed there as an Assistant Lecture after graduation.
- He went to Chongqing and Nanjing, served as a technician at Munitions Bureau afterwards.
- He began to teach at Tangshan Jiaotong University as Associate Professor since 1949.
- Then he was sent to Beijing Iron and Steel College in 1953.
- Eight years later, he was transferred to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he held successively the post of Associate Professor, Professor and Dean.
- In 1990, he was appointed as a visiting professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.Xu was elected as an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995.Xu lived a frugal life and never married.
- He made substantial donations to charity.
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