2015年12月1日 星期二

范绪箕 (Fan Xuji) 1914-2015

Caltech mourns the passing of Chinese aeronautical engineer and academic leader Xuji Fan (MS ’37, MS ’39), who passed away on November 21, 2015, at 102.
Chinese aeronautical engineer and academic leader Xuji Fan (MS ’37, MS ’39) passed away on November 21. He was 102. The former president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the oldest and most prestigious…
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范緒箕(1914年1月5日-2015年11月21日),生於北京,原籍江蘇江寧。中國力學專家、航空教育家。1935年畢業於哈爾濱工業大學機械系,後赴美國留學,在加州理工學院師從馮·卡門,1940年獲航空工程博士學位。中國抗日戰爭期間回國,在清華大學任教授,1945年主持建立浙江大學航空系。1952年院系調整時奉命主持交通大學南京大學浙江大學三校航空系合併建立華東航空學院(現西北工業大學),先後任院務委員會主任兼教務長、副院長兼教務長。1956年華東航空學院西遷後,調任南京航空學院副院長。1978年,調往上海交通大學,1980年至1984年任校長。曾為第三屆全國人民代表大會代表[1][2][3]2015年11月21日在上海華東醫院逝世,享年102歲。[4]

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Fan Xuji (Chinese: 范绪箕; January 5, 1914 – November 21, 2015) was a Chinese academic who was President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Fan was born on January 5, 1914 in Beijing. His father was among the first students sent to Russia by the Qing Dynasty and studied railway engineering. Fan completed his elementary education in Beijing. In 1925, his family moved to Harbin. In 1929, Fan enrolled inHarbin Institute of Technology, majoring in mechanical engineering. He obtained a bachelor's degree and also mastered Russian language. In the following years, he went to study at the California Institute of Technology in the United States and obtained two master's degrees in mechanical engineering and aeronautic engineering. Fan became the vice president of SJTU in 1979, and the president in 1980. He retired in 1984 and turned 100 in January 2014.[3] He died in Shanghai on November 21, 2015.[4]

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