Zhou Guangzhao (
Chinese: 周光召) (born 1929) is a Chinese
physicist.
Early life and education
Zhou Guangzhao was born on May 15, 1929 in
Changsha, the capital of
Hunan province. He was the 5th child of the civil engineer Zhou Fengjiu, and the younger brother of Chinese biochemist/geneticist
Zhou Guangyu. He graduated from
Tsinghua University in 1951, and then did graduate work in theoretical physics for three years at
Beijing University. He stayed at Beijing Univ. on the faculty after completing his PhD. In 1957 he was sent to the
USSR by the Chinese Atomic Energy Research Institute to work at the
Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
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Professional career
Zhou returned to China in 1960, where he worked on the Chinese nuclear weapons program, ultimately becoming director of the Chinese Nuclear Weapons Research Institute. He was elected to the
Chinese Academy of Sciences and later became the Vice President (1984–1987) and President (1987–1997) of the Academica Sinica.
Zhou's theoretical work focuses on particle physics. He is credited for the discovery of
PCAC (partial conservation of axial current), an important step toward the understanding of
symmetry breaking.
He first visited the US in 1979. In the 1980s he spent time as a visiting researcher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. He was elected to the US National Academies of Science in 1987.
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