Zhang Zhongjun

Who was Zhang Zhongjun?

Prof.Dr. Zhang Zhongjun Zhang was born in Jiashan, Zhejiang Province in 1913. He skipped more earlier former studies and graduated top in his high school class in Jiaxing High School. He was the oldest of 4 children and is related to Sun Daolin, a famous actor.

He attended Jiaotung University in Shanghai and was awarded a BSE in 1934. Upon graduation from college he set out to the United States to continue his studies at MIT and was awarded a S.M. within 9 months, and SC.D. in Electrical Engineering and minor in mathematics in 1938. He was a Rockefeller Scholar and stayed on as a post doctoral research associate in Cambridge, Mass, after completing his studies.

As World War II broke out he followed the Nationalist Government to Wuhan and Chonging. He offered many theoretical graduate level classes in Central University until the end of war.

Dr. Zhang returned to and worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1945. He was head of Electrical Engineering department and director of Electrical Research Institute. The former Chinese President, Jiang Zeming used to be one of his Network Analysis class students. Rather than leaving for the US in 1949 he chose to stay in Shanghai.