Wang Buxuan | |||||||||||
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| Born | 5 February 1922 | ||||||||||
| Died | 31 August 2019 (aged 97) | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | National Southwestern Associated University Purdue University | ||||||||||
| Awards | Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize (1998) | ||||||||||
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| Fields | Thermodynamics, solar power, heat transfer, thermal engineering | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Tsinghua University | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 王補宣 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 王补宣 | ||||||||||
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Wang Buxuan (5 February 1922 – 31 August 2019), also known as Bu-Xuan Wang and Pu-Hsuan Wang,[1] was a Chinese thermal physicist and engineer, considered a pioneer in the field of engineering thermodynamics in China. He established the engineering thermodynamics program at Tsinghua University in 1957 and the China Solar Power Society in 1979. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
- ^ Peng, XF; Guo, ZY; Hartnett, JP; Minkowycz, WJ (March 2002). "Professor Bu-Xuan Wang, Chinese academician, on his 80th birthday". International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 45 (7): 1377–1378. doi:10.1016/s0017-9310(01)00259-9. ISSN 0017-9310.