China Vitae

Biography

Su Dingqiang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province. He was born in Shanghai and graduated from the Astronomy Department of Nanjing University in 1959.

An astronomer, Su has taught and worked on astronomy projects for most of his career. He was chairman of the 9th Committee (the Astronomical Instrument & Technology Committee) of LAU and is a member of the astronomy experts committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Su served as a part-time professor at Nanjing University, University of Science Technology of China, and Beijing Normal University and also was vice-president of the Chinese Astronomy Council. Su also was a judge for the national prize of natural sciences.

In his research capacity, he devised a series of new systems on the optical system of telescope and lens prism corrector; his accomplishments were applied to telescopes in China and in other countries. Along with another research fellow, Wang Yanan, they created a special optimizer for optical system, which has since been used in the design of optical systems in Chinese astronomy. Song and Wang Shouguan, an academician, developed the initial approach to LAMOST under manufacturing.

Su is a prolific writer, having had 58 essays published. He is the winner of a national first prize for science technology progress, a national second prize for natural sciences, and four prizes by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1999, he was awarded the He Liang & He Li Prize for Science Technology Advancement prize.

Su is a research fellow at the National Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was elected as an academician by the academy in 1991.