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Biography

Lin Bingnan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Putian, Fujian Province. He graduated from Jiaotong University, and obtained a doctorate degree from Iowa University in the USA in 1951.

Lin served as senior engineer and honorary president of the China Research Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Science. He took the lead in foreign countries by suggesting two ways of constructing characteristic curve and net methods in designated time frame. He put forward the leading computing method for open-channel variable flow. At the same time, Lin carried out experiments and research on concentration's effect towards sediment settlement speed and trough transporting sand, and the achievement was cited by related parties. After 1956, he collectively developed shrinkage-type new energy dissipaters, such as the wide-end pier, providing methods where washout depth at lower reaches was significantly reduced for flood discharge of high embankments. This method has been applied in many projects.

From 1985 to the present, Lin has served as head of the Sediment Expert Team of the Three Georges project. In 1991, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and in 1997 he won the water conservancy award of the American Academy of Civil Engineering. In that same year, he was elected as honorary member of the International Association for Hydraulic Research (IAHR).