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Newsmaker: Huang Kun, Winner of Top Sci-Tech Award

Huang Kun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a well-known physicist, was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award 2001 by Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Beijing Friday.


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Huang Kun, Winner of Top Sci-Tech Award
Huang Kun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a well-known physicist, was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award 2001 by Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Beijing Friday.

Huang, 82, is an internationally known physicist who has made many important pioneering contributions to solid state physics.

He theoretically predicted, in the late 1940s, diffuse X-ray scattering associated with the impurities in crystal lattices, which was experimentally confirmed in the 1960s, and later named "Huang Scattering", and has already developed into an effective anddirect method for studying micro-defects in solids.

His multiphonon transition theory through its "Huang-Rhys factor" has become widely known in the field. He proposed a pair of equations relating to optional displacement, macroscopic electric fields and electric polarization (Huang Equations) which led him to discover for the first time coupled vibratory modes between optical vibration and the electromagnetic field which has come to be called "polariton".

He is widely known among physicists for his collaboration with Max Born in writing the monograph "Dynamic Theory of Crystal Lattices". This theoretical work is of practical and important significance and has a guiding role for the information industry (especially the opto-electronics industry ).

For the last half century, he has been not only making important contributions to solid state physics, but at the same time making great contributions to the teaching of general physics,solid state physics and semiconductor physics in colleges and universities.

In recent years, he has achieved remarkable success with his colleagues, in collaborative research, in the electronic states and phonon modes in semiconductor superlattices.

Huang was born in September 1919 in Beijing and graduated from the department of physics at Yenching University in 1941. He went to England in 1945 to study at the University of Bristol. In 1948 he obtained his doctorate and from 1949-1951 did post-doctoral research at the University of Liverpool. From 1951-1977 he was a professor in the department of physics at Peking University. From 1977-1983 he was director of the Institute of Semiconductors, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 1983 he has been the honorary director of the Institute.





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