China Vitae : Biography of Gu Chaohao

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Biography Revised: 6/10/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

Gu Chaohao 谷超豪

Standing Committee Member of the 9th CPPCC National Committee, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Born: 1926

Birthplace: Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou City

Biography

Gu Chaohao, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was born in 1926. He graduated from the Mathematics Faculty of Zhejiang Province in 1948 and joined the CPC the same year.

An award-winning mathematician, Gu has served in academia for most of his adult life. After serving as a professor at Fudan University in the 1950s, he pursued graduate studies at Moscow University. In 1959, he obtained a doctorate in mathematics and physics from the university.

He has served in numerous academic positions at Chinese universities. He was dean of the Mathematics Faculty at Fudan University and later a member of the Mathematics Discipline Group of State Science and Technology Commission. In 1981, he was elected academician of the Mathematics and Physics Division of CAS.

Gu‘s academic background includes a specialization in differential geometry, partial differential equation, and mathematics physics. His research of nonlinear hyperbolic systems and multivariate partial differential equations of mixed type won a 2nd Class Award for National Natural Science in 1982. He won 1st Class Awards from the State Education Commission in 1985 and 1986. In 1995, he won the Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award. The same year, the Ho Leung Lee Foundation presented him the Award of Advancement in Science and Technology.

He is a Standing Committee member of the 9th CPPCC National Committee.

Career Data

1998—2003	Member, 9th CPPCC, National Committee
1995	(Awarded Advancement in Science and Technology, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation)
1995	Award Winner, (Hua Luogeng Mathematics Award)
1993—1998	Member, 8th CPPCC, National Committee
1993—????	Deputy Director, University of Science and Technology of China, Advisory Committee Anhui Province
1988—????	President, University of Science and Technology of China Anhui Province
1986	Award Winner, State Education Commission (1st Class Award)
1985	Award Winner, State Education Commission (1st Class Award)
1982	Award Winner, (2nd Class Award, National Natural Science)
1981—	Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Member, State Science and Technology Commission, Mathematics Discipline Group
	Director, Fudan University, Institute of Mathematics Shanghai Municipality
	Deputy Director, Fudan University, Institute of Mathematics Shanghai Municipality
	Deputy President, Fudan University, Mathematics Department Shanghai Municipality
	Dean, Fudan University, Mathematics Department Shanghai Municipality
	Professor, Fudan University, Mathematics Department Shanghai Municipality
1979—1980	Visiting Professor, State University of New York USA, New York, Stony Brook
1978—1983	Member, 5th CPPCC, National Committee
1957—1959	Student, Moscow University, Mathematics and Physics Department Russia, Moscow
1953—1957	Associate Professor, Fudan University Shanghai Municipality
1948	Joined, CPC
1948	Graduate, Zhejiang University, Mathematics Department Zhejiang Province