International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 61 (2013) 449–450

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In Celebration

Professor Buxuan Wang, Chinese Academician, on his 90th birthday

Professor Buxuan Wang, a professor in the Thermal Engineering
Department at Tsinghua University and a member of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, celebrated his 90th birthday in 2012. Prof.
Wang was born in 1922, in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. He earned
his bachelor’s degree in 1943 from Southwest University in China
and his Master’s from the Department of Mechanical Engineeringof Purdue University in 1949. Prof. Wang then returned to China as
the leading pioneer and educator in the ﬁeld of Engineering Thermophysics for many years. He is credited with founding thermal engineering teaching and research in China and with training many
leaders in the ﬁeld. Prof. Wang has made many outstanding contributions to China’s science and technology education with manygroundbreaking research projects which greatly inﬂuenced thermal
engineering teaching and research throughout China.
Professor Wang has served on the National Committee of theChina Association for Science and Technology, has been vice chairman and chairman of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, and led the creation of the Solar Energy Society of China inthe 1970s, serving as chair from 1979 to 1987 and now honorary
life-time president. In 1981, he then established the China Branchof the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). Prof. Wang waschairman of the Asian Thermophysical Properties Association,

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was a member of the Executive Committee of the International
Heat and Mass Transfer Center, was the Chinese representative
to the Assembly for the International Heat Transfer ConferenceBoard during 1986–2002, was editor of the International Journalof Heat and Mass Transfer during 1982–2004 and the International
Journal of Thermophysics since 1984, and was elected a member tothe New York Academy of Sciences.
Professor Wang was the ﬁrst chairman of the Academic Degrees
Committee of the Chinese State Council, he served on the 1956 National Long-term Scientiﬁc Planning Commission, he initiated theengineering thermal physics discipline in China in 1962 and heworked on the 1978 National Science and Technology Planning
Commission. He founded and led the nation’s ﬁrst thermal physics
undergraduate program at Tsinghua University in 1957. In 1986,the World Energy Association awarded Professor Wang their Energy and Human Services Award. He was awarded the Chinese National Natural Science Award in 1989 as a leading force in thedevelopment of the heat transfer ﬁeld in China. He was recognizedby the State Education Commission in 1992 for his scientiﬁc andtechnological contributions, he received the State Board of Education and Technology Progress Award in 1995 and 1996, and theHLHL Science Progress Award in 1998. He received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Asian Conference on Thermophysical
Properties in 2010.
He has published more than 400 papers on heat and mass transfer, energy conservation and thermodynamics that have been cited
more than 2000 times. He has published various monographs, 10
textbooks, and eight International Conference Proceedings. He continues to be involved with students with his main research interests in recent years including heat and mass transfer in porous
media and in microchannels, boiling and condensation and twophase ﬂow.
As he celebrates his 90th birthday, on behalf of his colleagues,students and friends all over the world, we all wish Prof. Wang avery happy birthday and continued long life. Prof. Wang continues to inﬂuence his colleagues all over China with creative ideas
for today’s high-tech heat transfer problems and to challenge
them to develop better, cleaner, more efﬁcient heat transfer systems. He continues to have enthusiasm for fundamental heattransfer research. We wish him all the best and look forward
to many more years of his inﬂuence on heat transfer researchin China.

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In Celebration / International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 61 (2013) 449–450

Zengyuan Guo
Peixue Jiang
David M. Christopher
Tsinghua University, China
E-mail addresses: jiangpx@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (P.X. Jiang),
dmc@tsinghua.edu.cn (D.M. Christopher)
Xing Zhang
Chinese Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, Institute of Engineering
Thermophysics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Wen-Quan Tao
Xian Jiaotong University, China
Ping Cheng
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
W.J. Minkowycz
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States