Gu Zhen'an (; 16 November 1936 – 22 December 2022) was a Chinese engineer, and an academician of the

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Biography

Gu was born in

Wuxi County Wuxi County () is a county of Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Hubei to the northeast and east. Sitting at the upper reaches of Daning River and the southern slopes of the central Daba Mountai ...

(now Wuxi),

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

, on 16 November 1936. He attended Wuxi No. 1 High School. In 1954, he entered East China University of Chemical Technology (now

East China University of Science and Technology East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST, ) is a public research university with two campuses located in Shanghai, China. Established in 1952 as East China Institute of Chemical Technology, it has evolved from an institution with ...

), where he majored in

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. After graduating in 1958, Gu was assigned to China Building Materials Research Institute. He stayed there for 16 years, interspersed with a year at Lanzhou Glass Factory and two years at the

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. He joined the

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(CCP) in November 1982. In January 1986, he was appointed director of the National Quartz Glass Quality Supervision Center, a post he kept until January 1997. On 22 December 2022, Gu died in

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, at the age of 86.

Honours and awards

* 1997 Member of the

(CAE)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gu, Zhen'an 1936 births 2022 deaths People from Wuxi Engineers from Jiangsu East China University of Science and Technology alumni Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering