Liu Yongtan (; born 1 December 1936) is a Chinese electrical engineer. He is a radar technology and signal processing expert and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Liu was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, on December 1, 1936, while his ancestral home is in Wuhan, Hubei. In 1953 he was accepted to the

Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology (; abbreviation: HIT or ) is a public research university and a member of China's elite C9 League and a member of the University Alliance of the Silk Road. HIT is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Doubl ...

, and three years later he entered Tsinghua University. After university, he was assigned to the Harbin Institute of Technology, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and to full Professor in 1985. In June 1979 he pursued advanced studies at the University of Birmingham and University of Essex in the United Kingdom, where he studied radar technology under Sherman. Liu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 1991 and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. On January 8, 2019, he was honored with the 2018

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, China's highest scientific award, at the

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in Beijing.

Personal life

In his private personal life, Liu is an enthusiast and appreciator of the music of German composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven.

Awards

* 1991 First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award * 2000 Science and Technology Award of the

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* 2015 First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award * 2019

References

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