Guo Kexin (Chinese :郭可信;1923–2006),also known as Ke-Xin Guo or K. H. Kuo (Ke-Hsin Kuo),was a Chinese chemical engineer,physicist,metallurgist and crystallographer. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and is a pioneer of electron microscopy in China.
Guo was born on August 23,1923. In 1941,he graduated from Chongqing Nankai Middle School. He graduated from Zhejiang University in 1946 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in chemical engineering. In 1947,Guo went to study in Sweden.[ citation needed ]
Guo was the Director and a senior researcher at the Beijing Electron Microscope Open Laboratory (a.k.a. Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy) and the Center for Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences. [1] Guo was the main founder of the Chinese Society for Electron Microscopy (a.k.a. Chinese Electron Microscopy Society,CEMS;中国电子显微镜会),and served as its Director/President from 1982 to 1996.
In 1980,Guo was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was also a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA),and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),Sweden. [2] [1]
The K. H. Kuo Education Fund is named after him.
International | |
---|---|
Other |