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Revision History:

Biography Revised: 5/13/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Xu Xingchu
Xu Xingchu 徐新楚
Academician, Expert on Precision Tool Design and Techniques

Biography

Xu Xingchu, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from the Dalian Institute of Technology.

Xu spent most of his career working as a senior engineer and manager for the Ministry of Machinery Industry. He also served as honorary president of the Machinery Academy of Science. Xu engaged in the development of precision measurement and precision measurement instrument and the design and manufacture of precision processing and super-precision tools. He supervised the development of the first 1m longitudinal photoelectric comparator in the country and laser wavelength-based engraved 1m grating and magnetic grid machine tool. He also developed super-precision tool and super-precision processing technology.

Xu successfully developed a super-precision tool, a super-precision milling machine and a high-precision peripheral instrument, with whole rotary precision of 0.02 micron higher and processing mirror face coarseness of less than 2.5 nm. At the same time, he created a set of low-cost key manufacture technologies. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.

Career Data

1993— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Honorary President, Machinery Academy of Science
Senior Engineer, Ministry of Machinery Industry, Science and Technology Committee
Deputy Director, Ministry of Machinery Industry, Science and Technology Committee
1955 Graduate, Dalian Institute of Technology, Machinery Department Liaoning Province, Dalian City


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