Read the bio below and try to give details on tung-yen lin 's: - death place - native name - notable works - death cause - death date - spouse - awards - birth date - name - ethnicity - nationality - birth place - alma mater - occupation Bio: tung-yen lin -lrb- ; november 14 , 1912 -- november 15 , 2003 -rrb- was a structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete . born in fuzhou , china as the fourth of eleven children , he was raised in beijing where his father was a justice of the roc 's supreme court . he did not begin formal schooling until age 11 , and only so because his parents forged his birth year to be 1911 so that he would qualify . at only 14 , entered jiaotong university 's tangshan engineering college -lrb- now southwest jiaotong university -rrb- , having earned the top score in math and the second best score overall in the college entrance exams for his entering class . he graduated with a bachelor 's degree in civil engineering in 1931 and left for the united states , where he earned his master 's degree in civil engineering from the university of california , berkeley in 1933 . lin 's master 's thesis was the first student thesis published by the american society of civil engineers . lin returned to china after graduation to work with the chinese ministry of railways . before too long he earned the reputation of being a '' good engineer '' . this positioned him to become the chief bridge engineer of the yunnan-chongqing railway and oversaw the design and construction of more than 1,000 bridges . he returned to uc berkeley to join its faculty in 1946 , and began to research and develop the practice of prestressed concrete . he did not invent prestressed concrete , but he did develop it for practical use . the inventor of prestressed concrete is eugene freyssinet of france . lin retired in 1976 to work full-time at t.y. lin international , a firm he founded in 1954 . after selling that firm , he left it in 1992 to found lin tung-yen china , which oversees engineering projects in china . when lin received the national medal of science from president ronald reagan in 1986 , he handed over a 16-page plan for a bridge linking alaska and siberia across the bering strait , a project he dubbed the...
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- death place is el cerrito , california- native name is - notable works is moscone convention center kuan du bridge national racetrack- death cause is heart attack- death date is 15 november 2003- spouse is margaret kao lin- awards is national medal of science -lrb- 1986 -rrb-- birth date is 14 november 1912- name is tung-yen lin- ethnicity is chinese american- nationality is american- birth place is fuzhou , china- alma mater is tangshan engineering college university of california , berkeley- occupation is structural engineer