Yang Guozhen

AWARDEE OF PHYSICS PRIZE

YANG GUOZHEN

Mr.Yang Guozhen is a Physicist. He was born in 1938 in Hunan Province but is a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He obtained his bachelor and master degrees in physics in 1962 and 1965, respectively, from the Dept. of Physics, Peking University.
He is currently a professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was appointed the Director of the Institute of Physics in the period from 1985 to 1999. He has won several awards of national level for his outstanding scientific achievements. Since 1999, he was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Guo-Zhen Yang has devoted his research work in the field of theoretical physics, opticalphysics and condensed matter physics. He is recognized as one of the leading researchers in the field of optical physics in China. His work can be summarized as follows:
1. He has been one of earlier investigators in optical computing in China, and developed a theory for achieving various given transformations through a single holographic lens system. His theory was later validated by experiments in many systems.
2. He developed the theory of phase-recovery in optical systems, and proposed a new algorithm for solving phase retrieval problem in systems with loss.
3. In collaboration with Professor Y.R. Shen from University of California, Berkeley, he has carried out the pioneering work to quantitatively explain the super-broadening phenomenon and super-broadening asymmetry in ultrafast optical pulse.
4. He has led the experimental and theoretical researches on nonlinear optical phenomena of surfaces, interfaces and quantum wells, on the preparation of oxide thin films by laser deposition, after the development of a laser molecular beam epitaxy system.
5. He has also made significant contributions to the discovery of the oxide superconductor with transition temperature at liquid nitrogen in the 1980s in China.
In addition to his scientific achievements, Yang has also demonstrated his ability in successfully managing many large-scale research projects sponsored by Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was the director and chief scientist for National Center for Research & Development on Superconductivity. He was also the vice president of IUPAP and a member of the Physical Acting Council of UNESCO. Currently he is a fellow of American Physical Society, Dean of School of Science at University of Science and Technology of China, President of Chinese Physical Society, the Head of Center for Physical Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a deputy of the ninth and tenth sessions of the National People’s Congress.