Compiled from the following sources:
Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006
Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Revision History:
Biography Revised: 6/30/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Zhou Xiuji 周秀骥
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Birthplace: Jiangsu Province, Danyang City
Biography
Zhou Xiuji, male, Han nationality, is a native of Danyang, Jiangsu Province. He did postgraduate work at the Soviet Academy of Science Application Institute of Geophysics. With a specialty of atmospheric physics, he became researcher and honorary president of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science and was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.
During his career, Zhou extended the method of Liapounoff in the ordinary differential equation to continuum mechanics; with it, he proved the theorem of condition stability, provided a theoretical proof for the linearized theory, and developed the small non-linearity theory of flow stability.
