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Biography

Song Jiashu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Bailin village in Shucheng County in Hebei Province. He was born in 1932 and graduated from the Physics Department of Northeast University in Changchun. Song is a metal physicist.

Song remained at the university after graduation to teach. Two years later, in 1956, he joined four other colleagues to study under Soviet Union experts. During his study, Song conducted research on the heat-resistant property of alloys and established the Radioactive Isotope Lab.

In 1958, after finishing his postgraduate studies, he became the chief of the metal physics teaching and research office at the university's physics department. His position afforded him the opportunity to continue his research on high-temperature alloys.

Two years later, in 1960, Song was assigned to the 9th Research Institute at the Ministry of Nuclear Industry. He then was transferred to the deputy chief position of the nuclear material workshop of the 221 Factory in Qinghai where he carried out projects on special materials.

Song was part of the design team for the first nuclear bomb and the first H-bomb in China and is credited for his development of nuclear technology. A former technical leader of the research institute at the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, Song is a researcher at the China Engineering Physics Research Institute and chairman of the Chinese Scientist Arm Control Research Team.