王大中1935—

王大中1935年生于河北昌黎，自幼在天津求学。1953年毕业于天津市南开中学，并考入清华大学。1958年毕业于清华大学工程物理系核反应堆专业，1982年在联邦德国亚琛工业大学获自然科学博士学位。

王大中1993年当选为中国科学院院士，曾任清华大学核能技术设计研究院院长、国家863高科技计划能源领域首届专家委员会首席科学家、国务院学位委员会委员、国家核安全局专家委员会委员、北京市人民代表大会常务委员会副主任、中国科学院技术科学部主任。1994年1月至2003年4月任清华大学校长。现任职务有全国政协常委，中国科学院技术科学部主任，中国国务院学位委员会委员，中国核安全局专家委员会委员，中国核学会副理事长、清华大学校务委员会名誉主任。

科研及学术成就

1960年代王大中参与创建清华大学核能研究基地及屏蔽实验反应堆。1980年代，王主持建成全球第一座一体化壳式核供热堆——5兆瓦低温核供热堆，开创了中国核能供热新领域。20世纪末，王积极倡导并主持高温气冷堆的研发，2000年建成世界首座模块式球床高温气冷堆——10兆瓦高温气冷实验堆。

王大中曾获得国家科技进步一等奖、国家发明二等奖、国家发明专利金奖、香港何梁何利科学与技术进步奖等；曾获德、美、日等国发明专利；还曾荣获香港大学、香港浸会大学、澳门大学、日本早稻田大学和法国巴黎中央理工学院的名誉博士学位。2021年11月3日，获得2020年度国家最高科学技术奖。

Wang Dazhong (Chinese: 王大中; pinyin: Wáng Dàzhōng; born 2 March 1935) is a Chinese nuclear reactor engineer who was president of Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Wang was born in Changli County, Hebei, on 2 March 1935. during the Republic of China. After graduating from Tianjin Nankai High School in 1953, he enrolled in Tsinghua University, where he majored in nuclear reactor. After university, he stayed at the university and worked in the Nuclear Energy Institute. In 1980, he pursued advanced studies in Federal Germany, earning a doctor's degree from RWTH Aachen University in 1982.

He returned to China in October 1982 and continued to work at Tsinghua University as deputy director of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He moved up the ranks to become its president in 1994, a position at vice-ministerial level.

Contributions

Wang participated in the construction of the shielding test reactor "No. 200" with a power of 2000 kW, which is the first nuclear reactor independently designed and built in China. In 1985, he decided to choose the route of shell integrated natural circulation water-cooled reactor and planned to build a 5 MW low-temperature nuclear heating reactor, which is the first integrated natural circulation water-cooled reactor in the world. In 1995, he presided over the construction of "Tsinghua No. 200" 10MW high temperature gas cooled experimental reactor, which is the world's first modular spherical bed high temperature gas cooled reactor and marks that China has mastered the key core technology of modular spherical bed high temperature gas cooled reactor.

Honours and awards

• 1993 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
• 3 November 2021 Highest Science and Technology Award
• 2022 Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist