Farewell! Academician Pan Ziqiang, winner of the Medal of Merit in the Chinese Nuclear Industry, has passed away

Source: People's Daily - Education Channel Original draft

People's Daily Beijing, January 20 (Reporters Li Yihuan and Sun Jing) Pan Ziqiang, winner of the Medal of Merit of the Chinese Nuclear Industry, honorary director of the Science and Technology Committee of CHINA National Nuclear Corporation and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, died in Beijing on January 19, 2022 at the age of 85 due to illness.

Academician Pan Ziqiang. Image source: Guangming Daily Weibo

It is reported that Academician Pan Ziqiang is a native of Yiyang, Hunan, a well-known radiation protection expert in the mainland, who graduated from Peking University in 1957. In 1997, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has successively served as the deputy director, director and investigator of the Institute of Atomic Energy Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the deputy director and director of the Security and Environmental Protection and Health Bureau of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, the director of the Security and Environmental Protection Health Department and the deputy director of the Science and Technology Commission of the China National Nuclear Corporation, and the researcher and doctoral supervisor of the China Institute of Atomic Energy. He was awarded the Morgan Scholar Award in 1996.

Academician Pan Ziqiang put forward a practical health care physics framework in the early stage of the development of the mainland radiation protection discipline, and completed a number of monitoring technologies and methods in the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, which made significant contributions to the establishment, development and development of the mainland radiation protection discipline system and infrastructure.

Academician Pan Ziqiang is knowledgeable and humble, and has been working in the front line of engineering science and technology research and practice for many years. It took the lead in carrying out, participating in and guiding the completion of the "National Environmental Natural Radioactivity Level Survey"; played an important role in the environmental impact review of the site selection of Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant, providing a technical basis for the environmental impact assessment of nuclear power in the mainland; actively promoted the establishment of the "Nuclear and Radiation Accident Emergency Response System", and presided over the compilation of the "National Radiation Protection Standard" for many times.

In a self-report article on the website of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Pan Ziqiang once wrote: "In the decades of radiation protection and environmental protection career, these sweet and sour bittersweet have given me the most profound experience: radiation protection is a science to ensure safety, and we must adhere to the truth in the face of science, and we must not be afraid of pressure from all sides." "I am convinced that nuclear energy is the primary energy source of tomorrow for humanity." I am more convinced that tomorrow humanity will be safer able to harness nuclear energy to serve itself. ”