金怡濂1929—

生平

1947年高中毕业于耀华中学，同年秋考入清华大学电机系，和曾任国务院总理朱镕基同班。1951年毕业于清华大学电机系。1956年至1958年在苏联科学院精密机械与计算技术研究所进修电子计算机技术。1994年，金怡濂当选为中国工程院首批院士。2003年2月获得中华人民共和国国家最高科学技术奖。

Jin Yilian (Chinese: 金怡濂; pinyin: Jīn Yílián; born September 1929) is a Chinese computer scientist and a pioneer of supercomputing in the country.

Biography

Jin was born in Tianjin, with his ancestral home in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from the department of electrical engineering of Tsinghua University in 1951. From 1956 to 1958, he studied electronic computer science at the Institute of Fine Mechanics and Computation Technology of Soviet Union Academy of Sciences. Jin was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Honors and awards

In 2002, Jin was the recipient of the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, the highest scientific prize awarded in China. Asteroid 100434 Jinyilian, discovered by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program in 1996, was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 February 2006 (M.P.C. 55989).