Zhang Zong (; 16 May 1929 – 27 August 2019) was a Chinese crystallographer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Biography

Zhang was born in Yixing,

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 May 16, 1929. After graduating from Nankai High School in

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

in July 1948, he was admitted to National Central University. After graduation, he was assigned to the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

the same year. In 1959 he went to the Semiconductor Institute of the

Soviet Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

to further his studies. He returned to China 1962. In 1978, Zhang was appointed deputy director of the CAS Institute of Physics. In November 1980 he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 1982, he was appointed deputy director of the Division of Mathematics and Physics of the CAS, and was promoted to Director two years later. Zhang died on August 27, 2019, in Beijing, aged 90.

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