| Zhang Zongsui | |||||
| Native Name: | 张宗燧 | ||||
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| Birth Date: | 1915 6, df=yes | ||||
| Birth Place: | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | ||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||
| Fields: | Statistical physics Quantum mechanics | ||||
| Workplaces: | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | ||||
| Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University University of Cambridge | ||||
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Ralph H. Fowler | ||||
| Academic Advisors: | Wolfgang Pauli | ||||
| Notable Students: | Yu Min | ||||
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Zhang Zongsui (; 1 June 1915 – 30 June 1969) was a Chinese physicist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).[1]
Zhang was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, on 1 June 1915, to Zhang Dongsun, a philosopher and social activist, and Wu Shaohong . His elder brother Zhang Zongbing was an entomologist. His younger brother Zhang Zongying and younger sister Zhang Zongye are physicists. In 1930, he was accepted to the Yenching University, at the next year, he was transferred to Tsinghua University, where he studied physics under Wu Youxun and Chung-Yao Chao. After university, he worked in the Purple Mountain Observatory. In 1937 he pursued advanced studies in the UK, earning his PhD from the University of Cambridge under Ralph H. Fowler. Then he worked in the Niels Bohr Institute under the leadership of Niels Bohr. In 1939 he came to the ETH Zurich, working with Wolfgang Pauli.
Zhang returned to China in 1939 and that same year became a professor at the National Central University. In 1945 he became a senior research fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 1947 he worked in Princeton University. In 1951 he worked in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1957.
On 30 June 1969, he was persecuted to death by the Red Guards at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution.