China Vitae

Biography

Chen Xingdan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan Province. He graduated from Hunan University in 1950.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Chen Xingdan undertook a dozen of pioneering jobs in the field of physical measurement. In the testing of the fist nuclear blast radiation power of China, Chen proposed a measuring scheme, radiation sense, simulation, and calibration systems. Several optical impulsive meters he developed were successfully applied in the first nuclear tests in aerosphere. Chen has also presided over the development of spectrum light sources, standard detector, spectrum instruments, normal-incidence soft X ray imaging component and system. He is the founder of the technical basis of shortwave optical research.

Chen is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.