Zhou Yaohe ( May 1927 – 30 July 2018) was a Chinese materials scientist. He was elected as academician of the

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in 1991. Born in May 1927, Zhou attended

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. He went to the Soviet Union in 1953, and returned to China with a Candidate of Sciences degree from the Moscow Institute of Steel, in 1957. He specialized in solidification theory and technology for metal casting, and developed a new method of metal casting, which is used to produce aluminium alloy for

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. He received the highest award of Chinese aviation industry in 1991. He died on 30 July 2018 at

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in Shanghai, aged 91.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhou, Yaohe 1927 births 2018 deaths Chinese materials scientists Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Academic staff of the Northwestern Polytechnical University Scientists from Beijing Academic staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tsinghua University alumni