Lecture by Academician Prof. Jimei Xiao
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Title: Lessions from life 
Time: 10:00 a.m,29th,NOV,2010
Speaker: Academician Prof. Jimei Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Location:107, lecture hall, Yifu science building
Sponsor: School of Matericals Science and Engineering
 


Academician Prof. Jimei Xiao gave the talk. Audience
Academician Prof. Jimei Xiao gave the talk.Audience


 


Introduction to Prof. Jimei Xiao
        Jimei Xiao ,materials scientists, metal educators and metallurgical expert, Chinese Academy of Sciences,was born in December 1920 in Hunan Province,. In 1943,he graduated from Tangshan Institute of Technology, Jiaotong University .After graduation in 1948 he went to the United States to continue his study.to study. In January 1949 he got his master degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Missouri, in August 1950 he received Ph.D. in the same Universtiy.  Then he worked as an Intership in the Metallurgy. Lindenberg  Steel Heat Treatment company for one and half years. internship year and a half. In  July 1957 broke through the block from the U.S. government, went  back to China to participate in socialist construction. From October 1957 to now, he worked as a teacher in Beijing Iron and Steel Institute (now University of Science and Technology Beijing).
        In 1978 he was appointed a member of the National Science and Technology Commission group of new materials and corrosion metallurgy sciences group; in 1980 was elected academician of Chinese Academy (1993 renamed the Academy of Sciences). Then he Served successively as director of Department of Metal Physics, Institute of Material Failure, the environment breaking open laboratory director.  In 1991, he was member of the fourth term Science and Technology Association of China National Committee’s member, and at the same time he served as the Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection Institute of the first and second vice president, third, fourth president, director of Chinese Society for Metals, chairman of Materials Science Society,executive director of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths; adviser of Chinese Materials Research Society and the China Ordnance Society, the Chinese Aeronautical Society, Chinese Society of Astronautics. From 1999 to 2000 he was appointed vice president of post-doctoral Science Foundation, and has contributed to the establishment of the postdoctoral system in China. From 1980 to 1995 he served as Chinese editor of the international academic publication Metallurgy (Adta Metallurgica) and Metallurgy Express (Scripta Metallurgica) .In 1999,he was awarded Fellow title of the American Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE).  From 1977 to 1999, he has received 27 ministerial-level awards and got the special government allowances.