Huang Kun

Huang Kun bronze bust in the Physics Department of Beijing University

Huang Kun ( Chinese  黄昆 , Pinyin Huáng Kūn ; born September 2, 1919 in Beijing ; † July 6, 2005 ibid) was a Chinese solid-state physicist and university professor .

Life

Huang studied physics at Yanjing University in Beijing. He then completed a postgraduate study at the University of Bristol with promotion to Ph.D. 1948. In 1949 he moved to the University of Liverpool , where he worked with Max Born on the book Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices ( Clarendon Press , Oxford 1954).

In 1951 Huang returned to the People's Republic of China and became a professor of physics at Peking University . In 1955 he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Together with his colleagues he developed the quantum theory of the multi- phonon - radiation - and non- radiation transition processes ( Huang-Rhys theory ). Huang was the first to predict diffuse X-ray scattering of lattice defects in crystal lattices , which was later confirmed experimentally.

In 1983, Huang retired, but remained active in semiconductor research and was president of the Chinese Society for Physics from 1987–1991 .

Honors

• Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Achievement in Science and Technology (1995)
• State Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology from the President of the People's Republic of China (2001)
• 5 Million Yuan National Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (2002)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaleidoscope.Cultural-China: Solid-state Physicist: Huang Kun ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 31, 2016). 
2. ^ Jian-Bai Xia: Lattice Dynamics and Semiconductor Physics: Festschrift for Professor Kun Huang . World Scientific , Singapore 1990, p. 613 .
3. ↑ China Vitae: Huang Kun (accessed May 31, 2016).
4. ↑ China: Renowned Physicist Huang Kun Dies at 86 (accessed May 31, 2016).
5. ↑ ^{a b} China Culture: Solid-state Physicist: Huang Kun ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 31, 2016). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Huang Kun in the catalog of the German National Library

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Huang is the family name here, Kun is the first name.