Liu Huixian
Liu Huixian (1912–1992) was a Chinese structural engineer and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known as the father of earthquake engineering for his important work in this field.
He graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University (then Tangshan Jiaotong University) in 1933, earned a master's degree from Cornell University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois. From 1938 to 1946, he taught at Zhejiang University and the National Southwestern Associated University. He married physicist Hong Jing in 1941.
In 1947 Liu went to the United States to teach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He returned to China in 1951 and taught at Tsinghua University. In 1952 he joined the Jiusan Society and moved to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1978. He died in Harbin in 1992.
A statue of Liu was installed at Southwest Jiaotong University in 2013. There is also a prize named after him for earthquake engineering.
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