Hao Bailin or Hao Bolin (; 26 June 1934 – 7 March 2018) was a Chinese theoretical physicist, an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
, and
Fudan University
Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is als ...
professor.
Biography
Hao was born in Beijing, 1934. He graduated from then Beijing Russian Institute in 1954, then went to
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Kharkov Engineering-Economic Institute. He transferred to the Department of Mathematics and Physics,
Kharkiv University
The Kharkiv University or Karazin University ( uk, Каразінський університет), or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ( uk, Харківський національний університет імені ...
in 1956 and completed his bachelor's degree in the next three years.
He entered the Institute of Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
as a trainee researcher afterwards. He went to Moscow State University and Soviet Academy of Sciences for the further studying on physics since 1959.
Hao had meant to become a postgraduate under
Lev Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau (russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani physicist of Jewish descent who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
His ac ...
, but Landau was injured in a road accident in 1962, he returned to China without a postgraduate diploma.
He continued his job in CAS until the Cultural Revolution began. During the decade, he participated the Task 1019 for the military. Hao was elected as an academician of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...
in 1980. Hao took interdisciplinary research programmes later, he also sequenced DNA since 1997.
Personal life
Hao had three siblings. Their father, Jingsheng was a botanist, thus Bailin was supposedly named after a Chinese native tree, ''
Cupressus funebris
''Cupressus funebris'', the Chinese weeping cypress, is a species of cypress native to southwestern and central China. It may also occur naturally in Vietnam.
Description
''Cupressus funebris'' is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20 ...
''.
Hao met Zhang Shuyu, a Chinese student from Jiangxi province, in Kharkiv. They married in the late 1950s, and had two children.