ZHU Miaolong (

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: 竺苗龍,

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: 竺苗龙; born April 1942) is a Chinese

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and expert in

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. He is the former

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and current Honorary President of the

Qingdao University Qingdao University (abbreviation: QDU/QDU Med school; ) is a key provincial research university located in Qingdao, Shandong, China. The university was first established in 1985. In 1993, the former Qingdao University, Qingdao Medical College, ...

Biography

Zhu was born in

Fenghua Fenghua (; ) is a district of the city of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. The district and its administrative hinterlands has a population of over 480,000. Fenghua is most famous for being the hometown of former Presidents Chiang Kai-shek an ...

, Ningbo City,

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. 1966, he graduated from the Department of Mathematics,

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a National university, national public university, public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigiou ...

. July 1978, he became a

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at Northwest Industrial University. 1979, he was promoted into

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. He was transferred into the

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, and became a

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there. Then he went to Qingdao University in

Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...

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, and became the

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of the university. 1993, he became the President and a dean of the Qingdao University. He has been the Honorary President of Qingdao University since 1997.

Works

Zhu made some contributions to the Chinese space program, especially in the fields of multiple-staged rockets and the optimal orbits for

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s. * ''Some Theoretical Problems of the Spaceflight Mechanics'' (《航天力学中的一些理论问题》, both Chinese and English versions) Amazon.com: zhu miaolong some: Books
/ref> * ''Introduction to the Optimal Orbit'' (《最佳轨道引论》) * ''Optimization for the Multiple-Staged Rocket'' (《多级火箭的优化理论》) * ''Several Problems of Space Flight'' (《星际飞行中的几个问题》)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhu, Miaolong Writers from Ningbo 20th-century Chinese mathematicians 21st-century Chinese mathematicians Zhejiang University alumni 1942 births Living people Academic staff of Qingdao University Educators from Ningbo 21st-century Chinese science writers