Zhou Peiyuan

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Zhou Peiyuan

Zhou with his wife in 1932
Native name 周培源
Born 1902-08-28
Yixing, Jiangsu, Qing China
Died November 24, 1993(1993-11-24) (aged 91)
Beijing Hospital, Beijing, China
Alma mater California Institute of Technology(Ph.D.)
University of Chicago
Tsinghua University
Political party Jiusan Society
Spouse Wang Dicheng

Zhou Peiyuan (周培源 - Chou P'ei-yüan; August 28, 1902 – November 24, 1993) was a Chinese theoretical physicist and politician. He served as president of Peking University, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).[1]

Born in Yixing, Jiangsu, China, Zhou graduated from Tsinghua University in 1924. Then he went to the United States and obtained a bachelor's degree from University of Chicago in spring of 1926, and a master's degree at the end of the same year. In 1928, he obtained his doctorate degree from California Institute of Technology under Eric Temple Bell with thesis The Gravitational Field of a Body with Rotational Symmetry in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation.[2] In 1936, he studied general relativity under Albert Einstein in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] He did his post-doc researches in quantum mechanics at University of Leipzig in Germany and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He was a professor of physics at Peking University, and later served as the president of the University. He was elected as a founding member of CAS in 1955.

Tsinghua University's Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics is named in his honor.[3] In 2003, a bronze statue of Zhou was unveiled on the campus of Peking University.

Zhou's most famous work is the transport equation of Reynolds stress.[4]

Zhou had shared accommodation with fellow Chinese student Jen Chih-Kung, while studying at the California Institute of Technology.[5] Both men returned to China, where they played significant roles. His friend Jen, however, moved back to the United States, after World War 2. In 1972, following Richard Nixon's visit to re-open diplomatic relations with China, Zhou's friend Jen lead an academic delegation to China, where the two friends reconnected, and Zhou invited Jen's daughter, Erica Jen, to study at his University - the first American to study in China since 1949.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Zhou Peiyuan Is Dead – Educator-Scientist, 91". NY Times. 25 November 1993. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/25/obituaries/zhou-peiyuan-is-dead-educator-scientist-91.html. 
  2. ↑ Template:MathGenealogy
  3. ↑ Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University 25, 2015/https://web.archive.org/web/20150925095953/http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/zhpyen/1183/Zhou Archived September 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ P. Y. Chou (1945). "On velocity correlations and the solutions of the equations of turbulent fluctuation". Quart. Appl. Math. 3: 38–54. doi:10.1090/qam/11999. 
  5. ↑ Jan Wong. Beijing Confidential, A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found. Anchor Canada. https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Jan_Wong_Beijing_Confidential?id=fFY4Zh8EWaQC. "Unbeknownst to me, Erica Jen, a Chinese-American teenager from Yale University, had just been accepted at Beijing University, too." 
  6. ↑ Liu Ningzhe (劉凝哲) (2005-02-16). "The Wheat Harvest of 1973". East West North South. Archived from the original on 2023-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20230119080206/http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050218_1.htm. Retrieved 2023-10-08. "At the time, Jan Wong and her friend Erica Jen were the first two North Americans studying at Beijing University." 
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Sherwin (1996-11-03). ""Red China Blues" recounts story of changing China". UC Davis. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20221006164105/http://dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/redchina.html. Retrieved 2023-10-08. "In 1972, she was one of two Western students (the other being Erica Jen, a Chinese-American woman) admitted to special studies at Peking University." 
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