| Zheng Zhemin | |||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 郑哲敏 | ||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 2 October 1924 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Jinan, Shandong, China | ||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||||||||
| Other Names: | Cheng Che-Min | ||||||||||||
| Fields: | Explosives engineering Physics | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Title: | Studies on Thermal Stresses in Elastic Solids | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Url: | https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/6715/ | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Year: | 1952 | ||||||||||||
| Doctoral Advisor: | Tsien, Hsue Shen | ||||||||||||
| Awards: | Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[1] Highest Science and Technology Award | ||||||||||||
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Zheng Zhemin (2 October 1924 – 25 August 2021), also romanized as Cheng Che-Min, was a Chinese explosives engineer and physicist specializing in explosive mechanics.
Zheng is a native of Yin County (now Yinzhou District) of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Jinan of Shandong Province. He obtained a BS from Tsinghua University in 1947, and a MS and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1952. His doctoral advisor was Qian Xuesen.[2]
In 1955, Zheng returned to China and later served as Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President of the Chinese Mechanical Society, and Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Chinese: 中国力学学报).
He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1983.[3]
He died from an illness in Beijing, on 25 August 2021, aged 96.[4] [5]