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Biography

Wang Dazhong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Changli, Hebei Province. He graduated from the Engineering Physics Department of Tsinghua University in 1958 and obtained a natural science doctorate degree at Yachen Industrial University of Germany in 1982. Wang is an expert on nuclear engineering and nuclear safety.

In the 1960s, Wang led the design, construction, and operation efforts for a shielded test reactor independently built by China. He later directed the research and development efforts of high temperature gas-cooled reactors and created a new concept of module-type high temperature gas-cooled reactors. Wang's research led him to acquire invention patents in Germany, the United States, and Japan.

In the 1980s, he created a new field of nuclear energy heat supply research and supervised the research, design, and construction of the world's first 5M shell-type nuclear heat supply reactor.

Wang was elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.