China Vitae

Biography

Xie Jialin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuqing, Hebei Province. He graduated from Yanjing University in 1943 and received a doctorate from Stanford University in 1951.

Xie spent his entire career as a researcher at the High Energy Physics Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Science. While studying in the U.S., Xie successfully led the manufacture of the then-highest energy electronic linear accelerator used for medical purpose. After returning to China in 1955, he led the development of an electronic linear accelerator, which could be used to develop high energy, high-power klystron and electronic cyclotron scientific research.

During the 1980s, he headed the design, manufacture and construction of the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider Project. He later led the development of the Beijing Free Electron Laser. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.