Chen Da

Chen Da (March 22, 1937 - July 22, 2016) was born in Tongzhou, Jiangsu. Expert in Chinese nuclear science and technology. Graduated from the Department of Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University in 1963. In November 2001, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He once served as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Standing Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Department of Technology and Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jiangsu, an advisory member of the Medical Physics Professional Committee of the Chinese Physical Society, and the chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Medical Physics Professional Committee. In 2001, he was employed as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has won 2 second-class National Invention Awards, 1 third-class Award, 2 second-class National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 6 first- and second-class ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards, and 1 first-class Guanghua Science and Technology Fund Award. Passed away in Nanjing at 8:09 on July 22, 2016.