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Biography

Zhang Xingyin, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wuyi, Hebei Province. He graduated from Wuhan University and received a doctorate from MIT.

Zhang spent most of his career as a professor at the China Engineering Physics Research Institute. In the early of the 1950s, Zhang studied the deformation and rupture structure of pure aluminum in the creep flow process and its two dimension single-phase alloy, especially on the crystal boundary behavior. He later performed research concerning cryptomere during his visit in Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a visiting professor.

Among his many accomplishments, Zhang put forward the crystal boundary crack formation and transmission model; and by using the view point of deformation coordination or retardation, elaborated systematically the relation between crystal border behavior with high temperature strength, plasticity and cracks. He also participated in and led the research of nuclear material and implosion dynamics and made great contribution in the realization of the development of China's atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb.

He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.