AWARDEE OF TECHNOLOGICAL  SCIENCES PRIZE

GU BINGLIN

Gu Binglin, a  scientist of condensed matter physics and expert of computational materials science, was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970. He worked in Tsinghua from then on. He gained the degree of Ph. D. at Aarhus University of Denmark in 1982. Gu was engaged in the research on physics of photon-electronic materials at Notre Dame University, United States as a advanced visiting scholar in 1985-1986, and worked on materials design as a guest professor at Tohoku University, Japan in 1993-1994. Due to his achievements in science and technology, he was elected the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. Now professor Gu is the vice president and the head of graduate school in Tsinghua University.
Professor Gu has been mainly engaged in the microstructure design of materials, especially the relations among components, structures, and properties. He built up the model for designing multi-component semiconductor and developed the Probability Wave theory of Atomic Configuration (PWAC); he successfully predicted the ground states of complex perovskites, and gave the criterion of order-disorder in relaxor ferroelectrics; he revealed new characteristics of quantum dot, atomic cluster, and cluster assembling materials; he systematically studied the mechanism of dielectrics, polarization and field-induced phase transition of relaxor ferroelectrics. These results were frequently quoted.
Gu gained various awards, including one National Natural Science Award of China and five Science and Technology Awards by State Education Commission.