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Biography

Cui Kun, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jinan, Shandong province. He was born in 1925, graduated from Wuhan University in 1948, and received his master's degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 1954. Cui Kun developed a series of new molding steel with high performances and made several contributions to the domestication of mould materials and the development of the new steel types in China.

Cui researched an alloy theory of steel, the new mould steel and metal pottery. He sponsored the research and development of many kinds of new mould steel, two of which have been confirmed to meet the national tool steel standard "GB1299-85".

Cui won three national invention prizes, including the 3rd-class invention award in 1981 for the "niobium-containing matrix steel", the 2nd-class award in 1985 for the "free-cutting precision mould steel", and the 4th-class award in 1991 for the "high-ductility free-cutting plastic mould steel". He has also published over 240 dissertations in different academic periodicals and sponsored the compilation of the trial teaching book of Steel Materials and Non-Ferrous Metal Materials published by Mechanical Industry Publishing House in 1981.

Cui is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.