Pan Jiluan
潘际銮
President of Nanchang University
In office
1993–2002
Preceded byNew title
Succeeded byZhou Wenbin
Personal details
Born(1927-12-24)24 December 1927
Ruichang County, Jiangxi, China
Died19 April 2022(2022-04-19) (aged 94)
Beijing, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseLi Shiyu
Alma materNational Southwestern Associated University
Tsinghua University
Harbin Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsWelding
InstitutionsNanchang University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese潘际銮
Traditional Chinese潘際鑾

Pan Jiluan (24 December 1927 – 19 April 2022) was a Chinese scientist who served as president of Nanchang University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a representative of the 11th and 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]

Biography

Pan was born in Ruichang County (now Ruichang), Jiangxi, on 24 December 1927. He primarily studied at Binxing School (滨兴小学) in Jiujiang County and secondary studied at Yunnan Provincial High School.[2] In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, in order to avoid the massacre of the Imperial Japanese Army, their family fled from their home in Jiujiang County to Kunming, Yunnan.[3] In August 1944, he was accepted by National Southwestern Associated University, majoring in the Mechanical Department.[2][3] In July 1946, the National Southwestern Associated University was abolished, and he transferred to the Department of Machinery of Tsinghua University to continue his study.[3] After university in August 1948, he stayed and taught at the university.[3] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 1948.[1] In August 1950, he began graduate work at Harbin Institute of Technology and earned his master's degree in 1953 under the advisement of Soviet scientist Prokhorov.[3] After graduating, he taught at the institute.[3]

In August 1955, he moved back to Tsinghua University, where he was promoted to full professor in 1978 and to director of the Department of Machinery in 1991. He was a visiting scholar at E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in 1959, a visiting professor at RWTH Aachen University and the Technical University of Hannover in 1978, and a visiting professor at the Ohio State University in 1986. In April 1993, he was promoted to become president of Nanchang University, and held that office until 2002.

On 19 April 2022, he died of an illness in Beijing, at the age of 94.[1]

Personal life

Pan met Li Shiyu (李世豫) in Beijing in 1950 and they married in 1955.[3]

Honours and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cheng Ting (程婷) (19 April 2022). 我国“焊接泰斗”、中科院院士潘际銮逝世，享年95岁. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 Zhang Miao (张渺) (21 June 2017). 西南联大北京校友会会长潘际銮：西南联大的辉煌无法再复制. thepaper (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yu Mengjiang (于梦江) (26 April 2017). 九旬院士潘际銮上《朗读者》:一生只干一件事爱一个人. youth.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
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