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Biography

He Xiantu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Zhenjiang, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from Zhejiang University.

He served as a researcher of the China Engineering Physics Institute, and is best known for his research of nuclear weapons. He was chief scientist of the Topic Expert Group on Inertial Confinement Fusion of the State "863 Project" and was instrumental in establishing an independent research system on inertial confinement fusion in China. He proposed the developing model from partial-thermodynamic-equilibrium ignition to non-partial-thermodynamic-equilibrium combustion under low temperature. Subsequently, he was the member of a research team that obtained thermonuclear neutrons driven out indirectly for the first time in China, which was a considerable achievement of the time.

He Xiantu also advanced plasma physics by finding a correct expression for the EMW-generated self-born magnetic field for the first time in the world, in addition to the derivation of the Cubic-Quintic Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation and the solitary wave answers from the Vlasov-Maxwell Equation Set. He was responsible for a number of innovations, including the acceleration mechanism of particles in solitary waves, and micro scale turbulence of coherent plasma structure. His contributions on nonlinear scientific research include innovative efforts in the research of pattern dynamics and time-space chaos in approximate integrable Hamiltonian systems in China, which were considered the finding of time-space chaos and a new approach by foreign documents.

He Xiantu was elected as academician to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995.