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Biography

Lu Baowei, male, Han nationality, is a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1939 and obtained a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1944. He then received a doctorate degree from Harvard University in 1947.

After completing graduate studies in the United Studies, Lu began his career as a researcher for the Electronics Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Regarded as a founder of electric wave transmission science, he presided over the planning and implementation of a national ionosphere observation station network. He directed a forward-scattering transmission experiment of the troposphere and engaged in theoretical research. Results from that experiment provided the basis for the design of troposphere scattering communication equipment.

Luo continued his transmission research, later devoting his attention to a theory encompassing radio waves surrounding spherical ground and a sliding transmission theory. He analyzed transmission problems in satellite-type airship connecting with ground shortwave radios. He also is responsible for easing calculations for the perturbation of man-made satellite orbits of various radicals.

He was elected an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.