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Biography

Fan Mingwu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shashi, Hubei Province. He was born in 1943 and graduated from the Huazhong Institute of Technology in 1965.

Fan Mingwu is a cyclotron, magnet theory, and engineering expert. He worked in research institutes in the USA, the UK and France majoring in the technical research of the particle accelerator and electro-physical equipment. He developed the cyclotron theory during the development and improvement projects of the cyclotron. Fan solved technical problems of the key equipment during the development of a 30MeV high-current proton. The accelerator Fan created as a result of his research was voted by academicians as one of China's top 10 scientific and technical events in 1996, which put an end to the belief that China was unable to use accelerators in the batch production of the radioactive isotope with a short life circle and indicated that China's ability in developing the cyclotron was up to a new standard. Fan has published over 60 dissertations and 2 books and has received 2 national science and technology awards and 9 provincial and ministerial awards.

Fan is the president of the Huazhong Science and Technology University.