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Professor Shi-Ming Yang on his 70th birthday

Professor Shi-Mmg Yang celebrated his 70th birthday
this year. In honor of this anniversary, we wish to takethis opportunity to acknowledge his many outstanding contributions and pioneering achievements
during his caree:r as a teacher and researcher in thefield of heat transfer.
Professor Yang was born on 5 January 1925 in
Jiangsu, China. He received his BS degree fromShanghai Jiaotong University in 1948 and his MS
degree from Case Institute of Technology (U.S.A.) in
1950. From 1950 he became a graduate student ofProfessor Max Jakob and received his Ph.D. degreefrom Illinois Institute of Technology (U.S.A.) in January 1953. Upon the request of Professor Jakob, hejoined the Heat Transfer Laboratory of l i T before he
returned to China at the end of the year. He returnedto Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1956. From 1958
to 1985, as Associate Professor and Professor, he wasin charge of the Thermal Engineering Institute of XianJiaotong University. After 1985, he returned to Shanghai Jiaotong University to take up full-time teaching
and research activities until the present.
Professor Yang has been a pioneer in heat transfer
education in China. He published his Heat Transfer
textbook, which was the first in China, in 1958. Seven
revised editions with a total of over 200,000 volumes
have been printed. This textbook was welcomed as afavorite textbook, and he received the National Excellent Textbook Award in 1988.
Professor Yang's research contributions of over 60

published papers cover a wide range of topics in heattransfer, from theoretical investigation of phasechange heat transfer, theoretical analysis of thermocouple conduction errors for high heat flux surfaces to experimental studies of boundary layer interactions for complex flow phenomena. He was among
the pioneer researchers to reveal the dimensionlessratio of the maximum sensible heat to the latent heatin a phase change, which was later called the Jakob
number. His effective coupled diffusion model for heatand mass transfer in porous media provides the mostconcise theoretical expression for the complex physical phenomena. His analysis of the effect of physicalproperty variations on natural convection heat transfer covers the most extensive range of parameters.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions hereceived the National Award for Distinguished Contributions in 1991.
Professor Yang has been active in domestic andinternational scientific organizations for many years.
Currently, he serves as a standing member of the
Executive Committee of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, and as Vice Chairman of theNational Educational Advisory Committee on Thermal Engineering. He has also served on the Editorial
Board of the Journal of Engineerin9 Thermophysics
since 1980, on the Honorary Editorial Advisory Boardof the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
since 1982, and on the Executive Committee as wellas the Scientific Council of the International Centre2331

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Professor Shi-Ming Yangof Heat and Mass Transfer since 1987. His tirelessefforts to promote international scientific exchange
and cooperation have been widely recognized.
Professor Yang is well-versed not only in the fieldof heat transfer, but also in the diverse subjects ofliterature and history. He has two children and is a
grandfather of two lovely grandchildren. His daughter
is a medical doctor and his son is an engineer. On theoccasion of his 70th birthday, it is a great pleasure forhis students, colleagues and friends all over the world
to wish him many years of good health and happiness.

B. X. W A N G
K. T. Y A N G
S.Y. KOZ. Y. GUO
W. Q. TAO