Kuang Yuping

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Kuang Yuping is a Chinese physicist and professor at Tsinghua University. He was awarded the 1989 Wu Youxun Prize in Physics. [1]

In 2003, he was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [2]

Education and career

Kuang obtained a degree in physics from Peking University in 1955. He was a faculty member at Lanzhou University, where he rose to the rank of associate professor (1955–1979). [1]

He joined Peking University in 1982 and was head of the Theory Group in the Department of Engineering Physics. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Order, Alphabetic. "KUANG Yuping-Department of Physics". 清华大学物理系 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  2. "Division of Mathematics and Physics---Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences". Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (in Chinese). Retrieved 2022-12-28.